Overview
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 35 to 40 hours per week
- Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years or equivalent experience
Work site environment
- At heights
- Noisy
- Dusty
- Outdoors
Work setting
- Various locations
- Commercial
- Industrial
- Residential
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
- Supervise other workers
- 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
Supervision
- No supervision responsibility
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Working at heights training
- Occupational Health and Safety Certificate
- First Aid Certificate
- CPR Certificate
- Propane in Construction Record of Training
- Rooftop Safety Training
- Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) Certificate
- Fall Arrest Protection Training Course
Area of specialization
- Shingled roofs
- Conventional and inverted built-up system
- Modified roofing system
- Single ply sheet membrane roofing system
- Skylights
Security and safety
Transportation / travel information
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Physically demanding
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Handling heavy loads
- Large workload
- Repetitive tasks
Weight handling
- Up to 9 kg (20 lbs)
- Up to 13.5 kg (30 lbs)
- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)
Own tools / equipment
- Tools
- Steel-toed safety boots
Personal suitability
- Excellent oral communication
- Reliability
- Team player
Other benefits
- Free parking available
- Learning / training paid by employer
- Paid time off (volunteering or personal days)
- Team building opportunities
- Transportation provided by employer