Roofer
Qualification granting programmes
Qualification granting institutions
Description
Object of activities: installation of sloping and flat roofs.
Typical work tools: personal protective equipment, roofing hand trimmers, fixing tools, mastic and glue preparation, lubrication tools and inventory, woodworking tools and other hand roofing installation tools.
Typical working conditions: working on open construction sites, in various weather conditions, at heights. Due to the specifics of the work, the employee is provided with special clothing.
Additional information: in its activities, the roofer follows the requirements of occupational safety and health, ergonomics, occupational hygiene, fire safety, environmental protection, construction norms and rules, other documents regulating the roofer's work and the principles of sustainable construction. The following personal qualities are important for a roofer: thoroughness, concentration of attention, body coordination, physical endurance, ability to work in a team. The roofer performs activities independently, takes responsibility for the quality of performance procedures and results, is able to choose performance methods, materials, tools and controls the quality of performance, apply various not always well-known and tested solutions, materials and tools, make decisions on preparatory work, installation process coordination with other jobs, supervises the activities of subordinate, lower-skilled employees, assigns tasks to them. For a roofer, operational tasks are set by a higher-skilled person. After obtaining this qualification, individuals will be able to work in construction companies or carry out individual activities.
Competences of qualification:
1. Store roofer‘s materials, products, equipment and constructions.
2. Prepare and put in order a roofer‘s work place.
3. Hang and detach loads.
4. Read construction work project.
5. Assemble supporting structures of a pitched roof.
6. Lay pitched roof.
7. Install specific elements and details of a pitched roof.
8. Repair pitched roof.
9. Form slopes on the flat roof and installs insulation layers.
10. Lay flat roof.
11. Install ventilation, water collection systems and other elements.
12. Repair flat roof.
