Summary
If you enjoy working with your hands, being outdoors, and want a real trade with long-term job security and high earning potential, a Roofing Apprenticeship is one of the smartest routes into the industry.
You will learn directly alongside experienced tradespeople on real projects, while completing your accredited Level 2 Roofing.
What you will do at work
- Site Preparation & Safety: Setting up edge protection, staging, safety harnesses, and maintaining safe working practices at height.
- Pitched Roofing: Measuring, setting out, cutting, and fixing battens, breathable felt underlay, concrete/clay tiles, and natural slates.
- Off-the-Job Training: Attending regular training blocks at an accredited training academy to practice technical rig work, building physics, and study for your End-Point Assessment (EPA).
Requirements and skills
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Physical fitness
About this employer
Originally a family business, Ashcroft Services has expanded over our thirty-five years of trading and now employs over forty-five multi-skilled tradespeople. They have a firm belief in offering the best service to our clients whilst ensuring the highest levels of health and safety on site.
They work primarily with Councils and Social Housing Services, offering a comprehensive range of services, especially relating to roofing renewal and replacement, refurbishment, void works and providing disabled adaptations to new and existing buildings.
After this apprenticeship
To be a qualified roofer.