Helpers--Roofer Help roofers by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include using, supplying, or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.
Helpers--Roofer is Also Know as
In different settings, Helpers--Roofer is titled as
- Roofer Helper
Education and Training of Helpers--Roofer
Helpers--Roofer is categorized in Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
Experience Required for Helpers--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 Helpers--Roofer
These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
Degrees Related to Helpers--Roofer
Training Required for Helpers--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 Helpers--Roofer in different industries are
- Roofers
- Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons
- Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters
- Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters
- Helpers--Carpenters
- Plasterers and Stucco Masons
- Carpenters
- Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall
- Helpers--Electricians
- Drywall and Ceiling Tile Installers
- Insulation Workers, Mechanical
- Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers
- Painters, Construction and Maintenance
- Helpers--Extraction Workers
- Structural Iron and Steel Workers
- Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers
- Terrazzo Workers and Finishers
- Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles
- Tile and Stone Setters
- Construction Laborers
What Do Helpers--Roofer do?
- Check to ensure that completed roofs are watertight.
- Sweep and clean roofs to prepare them for the application of new roofing materials.
- Locate worn or torn areas in roofs.
- Clean work areas and equipment.
- Maintain tools and equipment.
- Cover roofs with layers of roofing felt or asphalt strips before installing tile, slate, or composition materials.
- Remove old roofing materials.
- Unload materials and tools from work trucks, and unroll roofing as directed.
- Set ladders, scaffolds, and hoists in place for taking supplies to roofs.
- Place tiles, nail them to roof boards, and cover nailheads with roofing cement.
- Provide assistance to skilled roofers installing and repairing roofs, flashings, and surfaces.
- Attach roofing paper and composition shingles, using nails.
- Perform emergency leak repairs and general maintenance for a variety of roof types.
- Attach sheets of metal to roof boards or building frameworks when installing metal roofs.
- Hoist tar and roofing materials to roofs, using ropes and pulleys, or carry materials up ladders.
- Apply shingles, gravel, or asphalt over the top layer of tar to protect the roofing material.
- Chop tar into small pieces, and heat chopped tar in kettles.
- Clear drains and downspouts and clean gutters.
Qualities of Good Helpers--Roofer
- 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.
- Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
- 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.
- 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.
- Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- 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.
- Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- 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.
- 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.
- Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- 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.
- Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
- Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- 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.
- Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- 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.
- Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- 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).
- Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
- Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
- Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
- 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.
- Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
- 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).
- Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- 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).
- Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- 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.
- Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- 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.
- Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
- Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
- Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
- 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.
- Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
- Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
- Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
Tools Used by Helpers--Roofer
- A-frame hoists
- Adhesive spreaders
- Adjustable wrenches
- Air compressors
- Asphalt spreaders
- Aviation snips
- Axes
- Backpack blowers
- Bitumen kettles
- Bitumen mops
- Blow torches
- Caulking guns
- Chalk lines
- Clipping shears
- Concrete saws
- Drying mops
- Electronic leak detectors
- Gas generators
- Hacksaws
- Hammer drills
- Hammer staplers
- Hammers
- Hand hoists
- Hand operated spray guns
- Hand operated spray rigs
- Hand rollers
- Hand saws
- Hand spudders
- Hard hats
- Hatchets
- Hot air guns
- Hydraulic hoists
- Industrial vacuums
- Knives
- Ladder hoists
- Ladders
- Lifting hooks
- Manlifts
- Manual gravel spreaders
- Material positioning jigs
- Measuring tapes
- Mechanical hoists
- Monorail hoists
- Nailers
- Nibblers
- Notebook computers
- Personal computers
- Pipe wrenches
- Planes
- Plaster power mixers
- Pneumatic caulking guns
- Power brooms
- Power buggies
- Power gravel spreaders
- Power hoists
- Power lifts
- Power saws
- Pressure washers
- Pry bars
- Pulleys
- Punches
- Respirators
- Roof rippers
- Roofers' brushes
- Roofing knives
- Roofing mops
- Roofing seamers
- Roofing spades
- Safety glasses
- Safety harnesses
- Scaffolding
- Scissor lifts
- Screwdrivers
- Seam rollers
- Shackles
- Shingle rippers
- Skid steer loaders
- Slate cutters
- Sliding t-bevels
- Slings
- Soldering irons
- Spreader beams
- Staple guns
- Steel-toed boots
- T squares
- Tar kettles
- Templates
- Tile cutters
- Tin snips
- Trowels
- Two way radios
- Wood chisels
Technology Skills required for Helpers--Roofer
- AppliCad Roof Wizard
- DigiTools Roof CAD
- Energy cost evaluation software
- Exele TopView
- Humidity and vapor drive calculation software
- Insight Direct ServiceCEO
- Maintenance record software
- Roof Pro Estimate Software Roof Pro
- Roofing Calculator
- RoofLogic
- Wintac Pro
- Ziatek RoofDraw