TITLE: Journeyman Roofer (Certification Required)

Terms of Employment: Permanent, Full Time (dependent on weather and contracts)

Wage: $23 – $33 per hour depending on experience

Anticipated Start Date: As soon as possible

Location: Chilliwack and various job sites, Lower Mainland, BC

Skill Requirements:

Main Duties:

  • 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
  • Install, repair or replace shingles, shakes and other roofing tiles on sloped roofs of buildings
  • Install sheet metal flashings
  • Apply waterproof coatings to concrete or other masonry surfaces below or above ground level
  • Install and repair metal roofs using hand and power tools
  • Setup scaffolding to provide safe access to roofs
  • May estimate materials required and quote costs
  • Shinglers install or replace asphalt shingles, wood shingles and shakes and masonry or baked clay roofing tiles on sloped roofs of buildings

Employment Requirements:

  • Completion of secondary school is usually required
  • Completion of 2 or 3 years’ apprenticeship program or
  • Over 3 years of work experience in the trade are usually required to be eligible for trade certification
  • Shinglers require 1 or 2 years of on-the-job training
  • Roofing trade certification is not compulsory in British Columbia, however, residential steep roofing certification is voluntary
  • Interprovincial trade certification (Red Seal) is also available to qualified roofers

 

If interested, please send your resume to phyllis@chilliwackroofing.ca