Apprentice Roofer

This apprenticeship combines practical site experience with expert tuition, covering essential skills for safe and professional roofing work. You’ll earn while you learn, gain industry-recognised certifications, and open doors to long-term career opportunities. Apply now to build a future in a growing trade.

Requirements

• Comfortable working at heights and being outside.
• Physically fit.
• Live in or around Liverpool/Prescot.
• Communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Problem solving skills
• Team working
• Initiative
• Physical fitness

Responsibilities

• Follow safety procedures: Wear PPE, comply with health and safety regulations, and maintain a safe work area.
• Read and interpret plans: Understand drawings, specifications, and instructions from supervisors.
• Prepare materials and tools: Collect, move, and organise roofing materials; set up and check tools and equipment.
• Install roofing components: Fit underlay, battens, tiles, slates, flashings, and dry/wet fix products on verges, hips, ridges, and valleys.
• Measure and cut materials: Accurately mark out and cut tiles or slates to size.
• Apply insulation and ventilation: Install products for warm and cold roof construction.
• Maintain tools and equipment: Clean and store tools properly after use.
• Work safely and be aware of key health, safety and welfare issues
• Plan and carry out their work to commercial standards of quality and speed
• Move, handle and store resources, complying with relevant legislation and guidance
• Interpret and follow verbal and written work instructions from trade supervisors and site managers
• Select the required materials and resources to carry out the work
• Set up, check and operate plant and/or equipment
• Install related materials and components to a given specification
• Use, maintain and store hand tools, power tools and associated equipment
• Access, interpret and use drawings and specifications to carry out work
• Carry out a range of job tasks including measuring, marking out, fitting, finishing, positioning and securing
• Install plain tiles, interlocking tiles, natural slates and fibre-cement slates
• Install underlay, battens and related roofing components
• Install pre-formed lead and/or proprietary flashings
• Install dry and wet fix products to verges, hips, ridge and valleys
• Install insulation and ventilation products for warm and cold roof construction
• Install roof windows and flashing kits
• Clean, dry and prepare surfaces for specified system
• Install vapour control layers to prevent vapour coming through the building to protect insulation
• Install mechanically fixed and/or adhered insulation as required by the given specification
• Install reinforced bitumen, single-ply and liquid applied waterproofing systems
• Terminate waterproofing systems at the perimeter upstands and/or open edges to the given specification
• Maintain and repair flat and/or pitched roofs (in excess of 10 degrees)
• Install perimeter details (edge trims, counter flashings termination bars)
• Work around outlets, pipes, soil and vent fittings, safety systems and roof lights
• Assess suitability of structure to receive cladding materials
• Install built-up, standing seam, secret fix, composite and fibre-cement systems and rainwater goods
• Maintain, repair and over-sheet existing roofs
• Install flashings, vents, fittings and components as appropriate to the specification.
• Work around penetrations and upstands