Ian Wallick’s career in roofing started a decade ago, but his roots in the field travel back at least two generations. Though he acknowledges the good fortune of growing up personally and professionally among one of the strongest roofing organizations in the country – RC 2018 Commercial Roofing Contractor of the Year Best Roofing – Wallick’s commitment to roofing is real. And very personal.
He began as a laborer tearing off and installing roofs in the field for about a year-and-a-half, before moving into a supervisory role managing crews on small repairs. From there, he began showing great value to larger projects as a senior construction manager, running all field operations on the production side. When his older brother, Zack, decided to leave the business and start his own roofing company in 2019, Ian stepped up. Despite the shake-up to the company’s vital sales operations and succession plan, he felt he was ready to assume a bigger role in organization – whatever that meant.