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WORK WITH US

Four posts, and the pay is on the page

We train installers rather than bidding for them, we pay on the twenty-fifth, and nobody here works on a roof at two in the afternoon in March.

WHY HERE

Four things we can put in writing

None of this is a benefit. It is the minimum a trade should offer, and we say it plainly because in this industry it still needs saying.

Paid on the 25th, every month

Never late, never in instalments, and never conditional on a customer having settled. This is a low bar and most of our applicants tell us it is the reason they applied.

Certification at our cost

Energy Commission installer certification, the fees, the training days and the re-sits if you need them. You keep it whether or not you stay with us.

Proper equipment

Harnesses, roof anchors, insulated tools and boots that fit, replaced when they wear rather than when they fail. Nobody here works off a ladder balanced on blocks.

Off the roof by four

Rooftop work in Accra between noon and three in the dry season is dangerous and it is bad work. We start at half past six and we finish early.

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Four posts, with what they pay

Ranges rather than a single figure, and the figure you are offered depends on what you can already do rather than on how you negotiate.

Solar installer

Full time · Dzorwulu yard

GH₵ 3,200 – 4,600 / month

Working in a two- or three-person crew on domestic and light commercial roofs. Mounting, panel setting, DC runs and first fix. You will be with a lead for your first six months whatever your experience.

Two years on roofs, any trade

Comfortable at height, with a harness

Energy Commission certification, or willing to take it

Electrician, AC side

Full time · Dzorwulu yard

GH₵ 4,800 – 6,500 / month

Everything from the inverter to the board: changeovers, distribution work, earthing, testing and the certificate. You will sign off your own work, which means you will also be the person who refuses to.

Certified for LV work

Four years on domestic and commercial installations

Your own test instruments (or we will buy them)

Apprentice, two places

18 months · Intake each January

GH₵ 1,400 / month, rising

For technical-institute leavers. Eighteen months on the roof with a lead, certification paid for, and a full installer's post at the end of it for anyone who wants one. Nine of the last eleven stayed.

Technical institute certificate, any discipline

No experience expected

Able to get to Dzorwulu for half past six

Survey and design engineer

Full time · Field and office

GH₵ 6,000 – 8,200 / month

Roof surveys, shading studies, load profiles and system design. You will be the person telling a customer their array should be smaller, so you need to be able to explain arithmetic to somebody who does not want to hear it.

Degree or HND in electrical engineering

PVsyst or equivalent, and a driving licence

Three years in solar design

Send a note saying which post and what you have done to hello@shine.com.gh, or bring yourself to the Dzorwulu yard any weekday before eight in the morning. There is no form and no portal. We reply to everybody, including the people we are not taking on.

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THE SURVEY IS FREE

Find out what your roof is worth

Ninety minutes on site, a shading study, a modelled monthly yield and a written price. Nothing to pay, and the report is yours whether you use us or not.

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