Apprentice Roofer

Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- Experience: Experience an asset
**Work site environment**:

- At heights
- Noisy
- Dusty
- Dangerous
- Outdoors
**Work setting**:

- Various locations
- Commercial
- Industrial
- Residential
**Tasks**:

- Install or replace asphalt shingles, wood shingles and shakes and masonry or baked clay roofing tiles on sloped roofs of buildings
- Install and repair metal roofs using hand and power tools
- Install, repair or replace built-up roofing systems using materials such as asphalt saturated felts and hot asphalt and gravel
- Erect and install scaffolding, falsework and other working platforms
- Pave and rake asphalt
**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Fast-paced environment
- Physically demanding
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Handling heavy loads
- Large workload
- Overtime required
- Repetitive tasks
- Work under pressure
**Personal suitability**:

- Dependability
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 hours per week