Former Solar Installer – Transition to Historic Preservation Trades

About the role

Renaissance Historic Exteriors sees something others miss: solar installers are uniquely prepared for historic restoration trades work. You're height-comfortable. You're safety-minded. You understand roof systems, tools, and the discipline of precise, consequence-heavy installation work. We'll take those skills and build on them.

Responsibilities

• Train alongside master craftsmen in slate, tile, copper, and historic preservation techniques
• Earn while you learn in a trade with genuine long-term career depth
• Learn and do historic roofing restoration with natural slate, clay tile, and architectural copper
• Work on flashing, waterproofing, and steep-slope techniques specific to landmark structures
• Hands-on work on State Capitols, churches, universities, and National Register properties
• Progression through our apprenticeship structure into a fully specialized historic tradesperson role

Requirements

• Comfort and competence at heights, on pitched surfaces, with fall-protection systems
• Experience with roof structure, weather sealing, and precision layout
• Safety culture and situational awareness that general laborers often lack
• Mechanical aptitude and a trained eye for system-level thinking
• Work ethic developed in a results-oriented, high-accountability environment

Qualifications

• Transferable skills from solar installation
• Height comfortability
• Safety-mindedness
• Understanding of roof systems, tools, and precise installation

Skills

• Height comfortability
• Safety-mindedness
• Understanding of roof systems, tools, and precise installation
• Comfort and competence at heights, on pitched surfaces, with fall-protection systems
• Experience with roof structure, weather sealing, and precision layout
• Safety culture and situational awareness
• Mechanical aptitude and a trained eye for system-level thinking
• Results-oriented, high-accountability work ethic

Benefits

• $25–$40/hr starting rate reflecting your transferable skills
• Group Health, Dental & Vision Insurance after 90 days
• Formal apprenticeship track with advancement milestones and pay increases
• Year-round work with a company that has grown continuously since 1992
• Travel per diem for Midwest project assignments

Pay

• $25–$40/hr

Schedule

• Year-round work