roofer
Education:
No degree, certificate or diploma.
Work site environment:
- At heights.
- Noisy.
- Dusty.
- Outdoors.
Work setting:
Various locations.
Tasks:
- Install built-up roofing systems using materials such as asphalt saturated felts and hot asphalt and gravel.
- Install or replace asphalt shingles, wood shingles and shakes and masonry or baked clay roofing tiles on sloped roofs of buildings.
- Install roofing tiles on sloped roofs of buildings.
- Install single-ply roofing system using waterproof sheet materials, such as modified plastics, elastomeric or other asphaltic compositions.
- Repair or replace shingles and shakes on sloped roofs of buildings.
- Repair or replace single-ply roofing systems.
- Repair roofing systems.
- Apply waterproof coatings to concrete or other masonry surfaces below or above ground level.
- Install and repair metal roofs using hand and power tools.
- Install sheet metal flashings.
- Erect and install scaffolding, falsework and other working platforms.
Transportation/travel information:
Willing to travel.
Work conditions and physical capabilities:
- Fast-paced environment.
- Physically demanding.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Hand-eye co-ordination.
- Handling heavy loads.
- Large workload.
- Repetitive tasks.
- Work under pressure.
Own tools/equipment:
- Steel-toed safety boots.
- Safety glasses/goggles.
Screening questions:
- Are you available for shift or on-call work?.
- Are you available to start on the date listed in the job posting?.
- Do you have experience working in this field?.
Employment terms options:
- Early morning.
- Evening.
Experience:
2 years to less than 3 years.
Employment terms options:
- Morning.
- Night.
- To be determined.
- Day.
- Weekend.
Workplace information:
On the road job.
Health benefits:
- Dental plan.
- Disability benefits.
- Health care plan.
- Paramedical services coverage.
- Vision care benefits.