Roofer Job Description

The Roofer covers roofs of structures with slate, asphalt, aluminum, wood, and related materials, using brushes, knives, punches, hammers, and other tools. The Roofer may spray roofs, sidings, and walls with material to bind, seal, insulate, or soundproof sections of structures.

The Roofer must be able to perform certain tasks to complete his job functions such as:

• The Roofer fastens composition shingles or sheets to roofs with asphalt, cement, or nails.
• The Roofer applies alternate layers of hot asphalt or tax and roofing paper until roof covering is completed as specified.
• The Roofer aligns roofing material with edge of roof.
• The Roofer overlaps successive layers of roofing material, determining distance of overlap, using chalk line gauge on shingling hatchet, or lines on shingles.
• The Roofer cuts strips of flashing and fits them into angles formed by walls, vents, and intersecting roof surfaces.
• The Roofer mops or pours hot asphalt or tar onto roof base when applying asphalt or tax and gravel to roof.
• The Roofer applies gravel or pebbles over top layer, using rake or stiff-bristled broom.
• The Roofer cuts roofing paper to size and nails or staples paper to roof in overlapping strips to form base for roofing materials.
• The Roofer punches holes in slate, tile, terra cotta, or wooden shingles, using punch and hammer.
• The Roofer insulates, soundproofs, and seals buildings with foam, using spray gun, air compressor, and heater.
• The Roofer removes snow, water, or debris from roofs prior to applying roofing materials.
• The Roofer cleans and maintains equipment. The Roofers equipment is very expensive and he must be able to use the equipment on multiple jobs.

The Roofer must have knowledge in the following areas:

• A Roofer must have knowledge of materials, methods, and the appropriate tools to construct objects, structures, and buildings.
• The Roofer must have knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, benefits, repair, and maintenance.
• The Roofer must have knowledge of equipment, tools, mechanical devices, and their uses to produce motion, light, power, technology, and other applications.
• The Roofer needs knowledge and prediction ability of physical principles, laws, and applications including air, water, material dynamics, light, atomic principles, heat, electric theory, earth formations, and meteorological and related natural phenomena.
• The Roofer needs knowledge of design techniques, principles, tools and instruments involved in the production and use of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
• The Roofer needs knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
• The Roofer needs knowledge of numbers, their operations, and interrelationships including arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
• The Roofer needs knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services including needs assessment techniques, quality service standards, alternative delivery systems, and customer.
• The Roofer needs some knowledge of the composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.
• The Roofer needs knowledge of weaponry, public safety, and security operations, rules, regulations, precautions, prevention, and the protection of people, data, and property.
• The Roofer knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
• The Roofer needs knowledge of inputs, outputs, raw materials, waste, quality control, costs, and techniques for maximizing the manufacture and distribution of goods.
• The Roofer needs knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
• The Roofer needs knowledge of media production, communication, dissemination techniques and methods including alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.

Skill requirements a Roofer needs:

• The Roofer must have the capability to determine the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
• The Roofer must have the skill to control operations of equipment or systems.
• The Roofer must have the necessary skills to install equipment, machines, wiring, or programs to meet specifications.
• The Roofer needs the ability to make adjusting actions in relation to others’ actions.
• The Roofer inspects and evaluates the quality of products. He must also develop approaches for implementing an idea.
• The Roofer needs to be able to repair machines or systems using the needed tools for this function.