Reference Quantity: ST0270
Particulars of normal
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Typical Job Roles |
Roof Slater and Tiler, Waterproof Membranes Installer, Roof Sheeter and Cladder |
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Length |
Sometimes 18 – 24 months |
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Degree |
2 |
Occupational Profile
This occupation includes putting in a variety of roofing supplies and merchandise, at peak. It consists of decoding drawings, measuring and calculating the required quantity of supplies. Roofing work can contain something from repairing a single tile or slate on a home property, to re-roofing public buildings reminiscent of colleges, engaged on new construct housing initiatives, or putting in the roof on massive industrial buildings. Roofers may be on web site from a number of hours to a couple weeks so this occupation ought to swimsuit those that like to maneuver workplaces frequently. The work is different and would swimsuit people preferring working exterior. This can be a core and choices apprenticeship, with three choices:
Possibility 1: A Roof Slater and Tiler works on a constructing web site, or in home or industrial premises, putting in slate and tile roof coverings and associated merchandise to each new and present buildings.
Possibility 2: A Waterproof Membranes Installer works on a constructing web site, or in home or industrial premises, putting in waterproofing techniques and associated merchandise, to each new and present buildings. Waterproofing roofers apply protecting membranes to flat roof constructions to make sure they’re watertight.
Possibility 3: A Roof Sheeter and Cladder works on industrial premises, putting in metallic sheet roof coverings and associated merchandise, to each new and present buildings. Roof sheeting and cladding operatives make buildings waterproof by protecting the roof with sheeting, operatives may clad partitions.
Core Abilities
On completion of this apprenticeship, roofers will have the ability to:
- Work safely and concentrate on key well being, security and welfare points
- Plan and perform their work to industrial requirements of high quality and pace
- Transfer, deal with and retailer assets, complying with related laws and steerage
- Interpret and comply with verbal and written work directions from commerce supervisors and web site managers
- Choose the required supplies and assets to hold out the work
- Arrange, test and function plant and/or gear
- Set up associated supplies and elements to a given specification
- Use, keep and retailer hand instruments, energy instruments and related gear
- Entry, interpret and use drawings and specs to hold out work
Core Information
On completion of this apprenticeship, a roofer could have information of:
- The rules of well being, security and welfare, employment legislation, and the way these are utilized within the office
- The completely different strategies and strategies used to maneuver, deal with and retailer supplies
- How you can interpret and use related product info and specs
- The requirements and codes of follow that apply to roofing
- How you can calculate amount, size, space and wastage of assets
- The rules of condensation, the elements concerned and normal strategies of management in roofs
- The rules of insulation and results on warmth loss in roofs
- Fundamental drawings and calculate materials portions from given info
- The rules regarding frequent defects, and the restore and upkeep of roofs
- Why, when and the way well being and security management gear must be used when endeavor roofing work (e.g. private protecting gear (PPE) and respiratory protecting gear (RPE)
- How you can use, keep and retailer hand instruments, energy instruments and related gear
- How you can work safely at peak and use entry gear
- The wants of different employees and work successfully with others
- The traits, high quality, makes use of, sustainability, limitations and defects related to roofing merchandise and elements utilized in their very own specialism and the broader roofing trade
Core behaviours anticipated to be displayed by all roofing apprentices
Efficient communication: oral, written, listening, physique language, presentation
- Crew work: work successfully with others with restricted supervision
- Impartial working: take accountability for finishing personal work
- Logical pondering: use clear and legitimate reasoning when making selections
- Working successfully: undertake the work in a dependable and productive method
- Time administration: use personal time successfully to finish the work on schedule
- Adaptability: have the ability to modify to modifications to work directions
Possibility 1: Roof Slater and Tiler Talent Necessities
On completion of this apprenticeship, slaters and tilers will have the ability to:
- Perform a variety of job duties together with measuring, marking out, becoming, ending, positioning and securing
- Set up plain tiles, interlocking tiles, pure slates and fibre-cement slates
- Set up underlay, battens and associated roofing elements
- Set up pre-formed lead and/or proprietary flashings
- Set up dry and moist mounted merchandise to verges, hips, ridge and valleys
- Set up insulation and air flow merchandise for heat and chilly roof development
- Set up roof home windows and flashing kits
Possibility 1: Roof Slater and Tiler Information Necessities
On completion of this apprenticeship, slaters and tilers could have information of:
- The rules of slating and tiling and the way they’re utilized in routine duties, reminiscent of, setting out roofs, putting in insulation, underlay and different background supplies, putting in primary roof coverings, fixings, fittings and elements, air flow and dry repair techniques, roof home windows, mixing and making use of mortar and putting in pre-formed lead and/or proprietary flashings
- How you can use key dimensions regarding batten gauges and minimal and most head lap
- How you can strip and reclaim slates, tiles and fittings for re-use
- How you can test areas to be lined, together with right set up of cavity trays, fascia board peak, barge boards, hip and valley development, penetrations, and masonry
- How you can requisition slating and tiling supplies, reminiscent of tiles, slates, underlay, battens, fixings and associated supplies, fittings and elements
Possibility 2: Waterproof Membranes Installer Talent Necessities
On completion of this apprenticeship, waterproof membranes installers will have the ability to:
- Perform a variety of job duties together with measuring, marking out, becoming, ending, positioning and securing
- Clear, dry and put together surfaces for specified system
- Set up vapour management layers to stop vapour coming by the constructing to guard insulation
- Set up mechanically mounted and/or adhered insulation as required by the given specification
- Set up bolstered bitumen, single-ply and liquid utilized waterproofing techniques
- Terminate waterproofing techniques on the perimeter upstands and/or open edges to the given specification
- Keep and restore flat and/or pitched roofs (in extra of 10 levels)
- Set up perimeter particulars (edge trims, counter flashings termination bars)
- Work round shops, pipes, soil and vent fittings, security techniques and roof lights
Possibility 2: Waterproof Membranes Installer Information Necessities
On completion of this apprenticeship, waterproof membranes installers could have information of:
- The rules of membrane waterproofing techniques and the way they’re utilized in routine duties, reminiscent of, making ready surfaces, putting in insulation, putting in background supplies, putting in primary roof coverings to incorporate bitumen membranes, single ply and liquid utilized techniques, fixings, fittings and elements, roof home windows and lights
- How you can requisition membrane waterproofing supplies, reminiscent of bitumen membranes, single-ply, liquid utilized techniques and associated supplies, fittings and elements
- The variations between and the traits of heat, chilly and inverted (waterproofing layer as the bottom) roofs
Possibility 3: Roof Sheeter and Cladder Talent Necessities
On completion of this apprenticeship, Sheeters and Cladders will to have the ability to:
- Perform a variety of job duties together with measuring, marking out, becoming, ending, positioning and securing
- Assess suitability of construction to obtain cladding supplies
- Set up built-up, standing seam, secret repair, composite and fibre-cement techniques and rainwater items
- Keep, restore and over-sheet present roofs
- Set up flashings, vents, fittings and elements as acceptable to the specification.
- Work round penetrations and upstands
Possibility 3: Roof Sheeter and Cladder Information Necessities
On completion of this apprenticeship, sheeters and cladders could have information of:
- The rules of sheeting and cladding and the way they’re utilized in routine duties, to incorporate, assessing constructions, elimination of present supplies, putting in insulation, putting in primary roof coverings to incorporate composite, standing seam, secret repair, single-skin, fibre cement, and constructed up techniques, flashings, fixings, fittings and elements, air flow techniques and roof lights
- Asbestos consciousness
- How you can requisition sheeting and cladding supplies
{Qualifications}
{Qualifications} aren’t obligatory for this normal, nonetheless, apprentices with out Degree 1 English and maths might want to obtain this degree and take the take a look at for degree 2 English and maths previous to taking their finish level evaluation. For these with an training, well being and care plan or a legacy assertion, the apprenticeship’s English and maths minimal necessities are Entry Degree 3, and the British Signal Language qualification is an alternative choice to English {qualifications} for apprentices for whom that is their main language.
Development and Skilled Recognition
On completion of this normal, apprentices will likely be eligible for employment within the roofing trade as a craft operative. Apprentices might progress to supervision and administration appointments in roofing organisations.
Normal Assessment
This normal will likely be reviewed three years after its implementation.
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