Hiring & SOPs for Solar businesses

Posts your roles, screens every applicant, schedules the interviews, and prepares onboarding packets — so a new hire is days of work, not weeks.

How solar shops run the numbers

  • Typical labor rate: $85/hr
  • Material markup: 40%
  • Target margin: 25%
  • Minimum job: $3000

Industry ballparks — Automic Trades pre-fills these for your solar shop, then tunes to your books.

What the Hiring & SOPs does

  • Posts open positions across Indeed, Craigslist, ZipRecruiter
  • Screens applicants against your shop's baseline criteria
  • Schedules interviews around your calendar
  • Generates onboarding paperwork (W-4, I-9, SOP acknowledgments, handbook)
  • Hosts your SOPs as a searchable reference for new hires

Why it helps solar owners

Hiring eats weeks when it's on top of everything else. Hiring & SOPs handles the screening bottleneck and the paperwork so the time you spend is the time that matters — the actual interview.

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