Roofer

Job Description

• -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
• -Read blueprints, drawings and specifications to determine work requirements
• -Repair or replace shingles and shakes on sloped roofs of buildings
• -Repair or replace single-ply roofing systems
• -Repair roofing systems
• -Instruct apprentices
• -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
• -Estimate costs and materials
• -Erect and install scaffolding, falsework and other working platforms
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• Worksite environment

• -At heights
• -Outdoors

Work setting

• -Various locations
• -Industrial
• -Residential