Flat Roofer

**Work site environment**:

- At heights
- Noisy
- Outdoors

**Work setting**:

- Various locations
- Commercial
- Industrial

**Tasks**:

- Install, repair or replace built-up roofing systems using materials such as asphalt saturated felts and hot asphalt and gravel
- Install, repair or replace single-ply roofing system using waterproof sheet materials such as modified plastics, elastomeric or other asphaltic compositions

**Supervision**:

- 1 to 2 people
- 3-4 people

**Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses**:

- Aerial lift and aerial work platform Certification
- Roofer Trade Certification
- Rough terrain forklift training
- 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
- Roofer Red Seal Certificate
- Fall Arrest Protection Training Course

**Area of specialization**:

- Conventional and inverted built-up system
- Modified roofing system
- Single ply sheet membrane roofing system

**Transportation/travel information**:

- Own transportation

**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Fast-paced environment
- Physically demanding
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Handling heavy loads
- Repetitive tasks

**Weight handling**:

- Up to 23 kg (50 lbs)

**Own tools/equipment**:

- Safety equipment/gear
- Steel-toed safety boots
- Hard hat
- Safety glasses/goggles
- Safety harness
- Gloves

**Personal suitability**:

- Client focus
- Dependability
- Excellent oral communication
- Reliability
- Team player

**Workplace information**:

- On the road job

**Screening questions**:

- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?

**Health benefits**:

- Dental plan
- Health care plan
- Vision care benefits

**Long term benefits**:

- Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP)
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)