Roofer Cover roofs of structures with shingles, slate, asphalt, aluminum, wood, or related materials. May spray roofs, sidings, and walls with material to bind, seal, insulate, or soundproof sections of structures.
Roofer is Also Know as
In different settings, Roofer is titled as
- Commercial Roofer
- Industrial Roofer
- Metal Roofing Mechanic
- Residential Roofer
- Roof Mechanic
- Roof Service Technician
- Roofer
- Roofing Technician
- Sheet Metal Roofer
Education and Training of Roofer
Roofer is categorized in Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
Experience Required for Roofer
Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
Education Required for Roofer
These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
Degrees Related to Roofer
Training Required for Roofer
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
Related Ocuupations
Some Ocuupations related to Roofer in different industries are
- Helpers--Roofers
- Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall
- Drywall and Ceiling Tile Installers
- Plasterers and Stucco Masons
- Insulation Workers, Mechanical
- Carpenters
- Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles
- Tile and Stone Setters
- Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters
- Terrazzo Workers and Finishers
- Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons
- Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers
- Painters, Construction and Maintenance
- Sheet Metal Workers
- Tapers
- Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters
- Brickmasons and Blockmasons
- Carpet Installers
- Structural Iron and Steel Workers
- Construction Laborers
What Do Roofer do?
- Inspect problem roofs to determine the best repair procedures.
- Set up scaffolding to provide safe access to roofs.
- Cement or nail flashing strips of metal or shingle over joints to make them watertight.
- Install, repair, or replace single-ply roofing systems, using waterproof sheet materials such as modified plastics, elastomeric, or other asphaltic compositions.
- Cut felt, shingles, or strips of flashing to fit angles formed by walls, vents, or intersecting roof surfaces.
- Install vapor barriers or layers of insulation on flat roofs.
- Cover exposed nailheads with roofing cement or caulking to prevent water leakage or rust.
- Install partially overlapping layers of material over roof insulation surfaces, using chalk lines, gauges on shingling hatchets, or lines on shingles.
- Cover roofs or exterior walls of structures with slate, asphalt, aluminum, wood, gravel, gypsum, or related materials, using brushes, knives, punches, hammers, or other tools.
- Remove snow, water, or debris from roofs prior to applying roofing materials.
- Apply alternate layers of hot asphalt or tar and roofing paper to roofs.
- Spray roofs, sidings, or walls to bind, seal, insulate, or soundproof sections of structures, using spray guns, air compressors, or heaters.
- Waterproof or damp-proof walls, floors, roofs, foundations, or basements by painting or spraying surfaces with waterproof coatings or by attaching waterproofing membranes to surfaces.
- Mop or pour hot asphalt or tar onto roof bases.
- Apply plastic coatings, membranes, fiberglass, or felt over sloped roofs before applying shingles.
- Smooth rough spots to prepare surfaces for waterproofing, using hammers, chisels, or rubbing bricks.
- Glaze top layers to make a smooth finish or embed gravel in the bitumen for rough surfaces.
- Apply gravel or pebbles over top layers of roofs, using rakes or stiff-bristled brooms.
- Punch holes in slate, tile, terra cotta, or wooden shingles, using punches and hammers.
- Apply modular soil- and plant-containing grids over existing roof membranes to create green roofs.
- Apply reflective roof coatings, such as special paints or single-ply roofing sheets, to existing roofs to reduce solar heat absorption.
- Attach solar panels to existing roofs, according to specifications and without damaging roofing materials or the structural integrity of buildings.
- Install attic ventilation systems, such as turbine vents, gable or ridge vents, or conventional or solar-powered exhaust fans.
- Install layers of vegetation-based green roofs, including protective membranes, drainage, aeration, water retention and filter layers, soil substrates, irrigation materials, and plants.
- Install skylights on roofs to increase natural light inside structures or to reduce energy costs.
- Install solar roofing systems that have energy-collecting photovoltaic panels built into roofing membranes, shingles, or tiles.
- Estimate materials and labor required to complete roofing jobs.
- Attach roofing paper to roofs in overlapping strips to form bases for other materials.
Qualities of Good Roofer
- Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
- Trunk Strength: The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
- Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
- Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Multilimb Coordination: The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
- Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
- Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
- Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
- Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Response Orientation: The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
- Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- Depth Perception: The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
- Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
- Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Rate Control: The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
- Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
- Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
- Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
- Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
- Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
- Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
- Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
- Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
- Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
- Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
- Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
Tools Used by Roofer
- Adjustable roof brackets
- Air compressors
- Angle knives
- Axes
- Bench-mount hand brakes
- Bitumen applicators
- Carpenters' hatchets
- Caulking guns
- Chalk line markers
- Chicken ladders
- Circular saws
- Claw hammers
- Cleat benders
- Clipping shears
- Compound snips
- Core cutters
- Corner roofing seamers
- Desktop computers
- Double-burner pump kettles
- Double-lock seamers
- Downspout crimpers
- Draw knives
- Electronic leak detectors
- Fall arrest systems
- Fixed-roof brackets
- Foot squaring shears
- Gas-powered chop saws
- Gravelers
- Grooving tools
- Hammer tackers
- Hammers
- Hand crimpers
- Hand punches
- Hand roofing double seamers
- Heat welders
- Heating torches
- Hoisting wheels
- Hot air blowers
- Hot air welding machines
- Hot or cold process power gravelers
- Hydraulic swing beam hoists
- Infrared thermometers
- Korker cleats
- Ladder braces
- Ladder jacks
- Ladder levelers
- Ladder standoffs
- Ladders
- Laser printers
- Long ladder hoisting wheels
- Measuring tapes
- Measuring wheels
- Membrane slitters
- Metric roofing hatchets
- Nail hammers
- Nail pullers
- Nail strippers
- Notebook computers
- Personal computers
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Plastic hammers
- Pneumatic air nailers
- Pointing trowels
- Pop rivet guns
- Power drills
- Power hoists
- Power roof cutters
- Power roof rippers
- Propane torches
- Pry bars
- Putty knives
- Reciprocating saws
- Riggers' axes
- Rip hammers
- Rolling magnetic sweepers
- Roof dryers
- Roof hooks
- Roof pitch finders
- Roofing coil nailers
- Roofing guardrails
- Roofing knives
- Roofing layout tapes
- Roofing seamers
- Roofing shoes
- Roofing spades
- Roofing tearoff forks
- Rotary machines
- Round-point trowels
- Safety belts
- Safety lanyards
- Scaffolding
- Scraper/pullers
- Seam finishing machines
- Seaming chisels
- Seaming hammers
- Seaming pliers
- Semiautomatic welding machines
- Shake tear-off tools
- Shears
- Sheet metal hand tongs
- Shingle ladder hoists
- Shingle rippers
- Shingle saws
- Shingle shovels
- Short ladder hoisting wheels
- Single burner draw kettles
- Single burner pump kettles
- Single seamers
- Slate cutters
- Slate hammers
- Slate rippers
- Slaters' anvils
- Snips
- Soldering irons
- Spud bars
- Spud/scraper bars
- Standard roofing hatchets
- Straight snips
- Tar mops
- Tear-off bars
- Tear-off shovels
- Tin snips
- Tinsmith pliers
- Torches
- Triangular scales
- Trolley track hoists
- Trowels
- Two-handed edgers
- Utility knives
- Welding hoods
- Wood chisels
- Wood shingling hatchets
- Wrecking bars
Technology Skills required for Roofer
- AppliCad Roof Wizard
- ASR Software LWC-Plus
- ASR Software Taper-Plus
- ASR Software TopView LE
- ASR Software TopView ME
- CADAFIS
- DigiTools Roof CAD
- Energy cost evaluation software
- Exele TopView
- Humidity and vapor drive calculation software
- Insight Direct ServiceCEO
- Maintenance record software
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft Windows
- Microsoft Word
- Roof Pro Estimate Software Roof Pro
- Roofing Calculator
- RoofLogic
- Spreadsheet software
- Wintac Pro
- Word processing software
- Ziatek RoofDraw