R&R INDUSTRIES:
Three successful women
in roofing have diverse responsibilities
with shared perspectives
Florida Construction News special feature
Three of the Top 10 Women in
Roofing in Florida share a key com-
mon quality: They all work at R&R
Industries, a Daytona Beach-area in-
dustrial, commercial and institu-
tional roofing contractor in business
since 1948.
They also appreciate their differ-
ences in occupations and years of
employment, while sharing their
employer’s and colleagues’ com-
mon perspectives of achievement
and mutual respect.
“The R&R family strives for excel-
lence in everything we do in pursuit
of their purpose to: protect our cus-
tomers, protect their assets, and
make a positive difference in our
community,” Guy Beasley, CEO
said. Rhonda Rzeczka – roofer
Rhonda Rzeczka is exceptional in
that she is the only female em-
ployee among R&R Industries’ more
than 70 office and field staff who is
up on the roofs each day.
She says her husband Tom en-
couraged her to help him out on job
sites, initially as a helper, before
they joined R&R. Now she can han-
dle a diversity of roof-top tasks
safely and effectively.
They’ve been a couple since
1992. He’s been a roofer for 40
years; she’s been on the job full-
time for four.
“It’s a good job to me,” she says
in an interview after a day’s work. “I
think I’m pretty good at what I’m
supposed to be doing.”
“Every now and then I get a bit
tired of it and want to take a little
time off, but I see the money com-
ing in and it’s not a bad job.”
“We’re in Florida and it’s good to
work outside,” she says. “What bet-
ter job could you have, instead of
sitting inside all day?”
She says she knows only a few
women work in the trade, but she
sees no reason why more can’t han-
dle the work even though she has
the exceptional advantage of her
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