Reference Quantity: ST0270
Particulars of ordinary
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Typical Job Roles
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Roof Slater and Tiler, Waterproof Membranes Installer, Roof Sheeter and Cladder
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Length
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Sometimes 18 – 24 months
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Stage
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2
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Occupational Profile
This occupation includes putting in a spread of roofing supplies and merchandise, at top. 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 equivalent to colleges, engaged on new construct housing tasks, or putting in the roof on giant business buildings. Roofers will 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 regularly. The work is assorted 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 business premises, putting in slate and tile roof coverings and associated merchandise to each new and current buildings.
Possibility 2: A Waterproof Membranes Installer works on a constructing web site, or in home or business premises, putting in waterproofing programs and associated merchandise, to each new and current 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 business premises, putting in steel sheet roof coverings and associated merchandise, to each new and current buildings. Roof sheeting and cladding operatives make buildings waterproof by masking the roof with sheeting, operatives can also clad partitions.
Core Expertise
On completion of this apprenticeship, roofers will be capable of:
- Work safely and pay attention to key well being, security and welfare points
- Plan and perform their work to business requirements of high quality and velocity
- Transfer, deal with and retailer assets, complying with related laws and steering
- Interpret and observe 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 tools
- Set up associated supplies and parts to a given specification
- Use, preserve and retailer hand instruments, energy instruments and related tools
- Entry, interpret and use drawings and specs to hold out work
Core Information
On completion of this apprenticeship, a roofer may have data of:
- The ideas of well being, security and welfare, employment legislation, and the way these are utilized within the office
- The totally different methods and strategies used to maneuver, deal with and retailer supplies
- The best way to interpret and use related product info and specs
- The requirements and codes of follow that apply to roofing
- The best way to calculate amount, size, space and wastage of assets
- The ideas of condensation, the components concerned and customary strategies of management in roofs
- The ideas of insulation and results on warmth loss in roofs
- Fundamental drawings and the best way to calculate materials portions from given info
- The ideas regarding frequent defects, and the restore and upkeep of roofs
- Why, when and the way well being and security management tools ought to be used when enterprise roofing work (e.g. private protecting tools (PPE) and respiratory protecting tools (RPE)
- The best way to use, preserve and retailer hand instruments, energy instruments and related tools
- The best way to work safely at top and use entry tools
- The wants of different employees and the best way to work successfully with others
- The traits, high quality, makes use of, sustainability, limitations and defects related to customary roofing merchandise and parts utilized in their very own specialism and the final 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
- Unbiased working: take duty for finishing personal work
- Logical considering: 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: be capable of regulate to modifications to work directions
Possibility 1: Roof Slater and Tiler Talent Necessities
On completion of this apprenticeship, slaters and tilers will be capable of:
- Perform a spread 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 parts
- 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 may have data of:
- The ideas of slating and tiling (plain tiles, interlocking tiles, pure slates and fibre-cement slates) and the way they’re utilized in routine duties, equivalent to, setting out roofs, putting in insulation, underlay and different background supplies, putting in principal roof coverings, fixings, fittings and parts, air flow and dry repair programs, roof home windows, mixing and making use of mortar and putting in pre-formed lead proprietary flashings
- The best way to use key dimensions regarding batten gauges and minimal and most head lap
- The best way to strip and reclaim slates, tiles and fittings for re-use
- The best way to test areas to be coated, together with appropriate set up of cavity trays, fascia board top, barge boards, hip and valley development, penetrations, and masonry
- The best way to requisition slating and tiling supplies, equivalent to tiles, slates, underlay, battens, fixings and associated supplies, fittings and parts
Possibility 2: Waterproof Membranes Installer Talent Necessities
On completion of this apprenticeship, waterproof membranes installers will be capable of:
- Perform a spread 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 strengthened bitumen, single-ply and liquid utilized waterproofing programs
- Terminate waterproofing programs on the perimeter upstands and/or open edges to the given specification
- Preserve 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 programs and roof lights
Possibility 2: Waterproof Membranes Installer Information Necessities
On completion of this apprenticeship, waterproof membranes installers may have data of:
- The ideas of membrane waterproofing programs and the way they’re utilized in routine duties, equivalent to, making ready surfaces, putting in insulation, putting in background supplies, putting in principal roof coverings to incorporate bitumen membranes, single ply and liquid utilized programs, fixings, fittings and parts, roof home windows and lights
- The best way to requisition membrane waterproofing supplies, equivalent to bitumen membranes, single-ply, liquid utilized programs and associated supplies, fittings and parts
- 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 spread 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 programs and rainwater items
- Preserve, restore and over-sheet current roofs
- Set up flashings, vents, fittings and parts 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 may have data of:
- The ideas of sheeting and cladding and the way they’re utilized in routine duties, to incorporate, assessing constructions, removing of current supplies, putting in insulation, putting in principal roof coverings to incorporate composite, standing seam, secret repair, single-skin, fibre cement, and constructed up programs, flashings, fixings, fittings and parts, air flow programs and roof lights
- Asbestos consciousness
- The best way to requisition sheeting and cladding supplies
{Qualifications}
English and maths {qualifications} type a compulsory a part of all apprenticeships and have to be accomplished earlier than an apprentice can go by gateway. The necessities are detailed within the present model of the apprenticeship funding guidelines.
Development and Skilled Recognition
On completion of this customary, apprentices might be eligible for employment within the roofing trade as a craft operative. Apprentices could progress to supervision and administration appointments in roofing organisations.
Commonplace Evaluate
This customary might be reviewed three years after its implementation.
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