SOLV Energy is a leading provider of infrastructure services to the power industry, designing, building and maintaining utility scale solar, battery storage and high voltage substation projects nationwide.
Job Description Summary:
The Senior Commissioning Manager – Sr. CPM & Portfolio Delivery leads the Commissioning Project Management function and provides portfolio-level oversight for Testing & Commissioning delivery across SOLV Energy projects. This role is accountable for consistent project ownership, integrated commissioning planning, milestone visibility, cross-functional coordination, resource balancing, reporting, and escalation from early engagement through project closeout. The position leads the Sr. CPM team and partners with HV and BESS/PV technical and field-execution leaders, who retain accountability for their respective technical standards and field-delivery scopes.
This role is fully remote. Specific location details and expectations will be discussed during the interview process.
Job Description:
*This job description reflects management's assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.
Position Responsibilities and Duties:
- Lead the Sr. Commissioning Project Management team, providing clear direction, coaching, training, performance feedback, and support.
- Establish team goals, role expectations, workload priorities, and accountability consistent with T&Cx objectives.
- Hire, onboard, develop, and mentor employees while supporting succession planning and career growth.
- Build a culture of safety, project ownership, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Lead and standardize the Sr. CPM operating model across regions, business units, and project types.
- Maintain portfolio-level visibility of commissioning schedules, milestones, readiness, risks, resource needs, and project performance.
- Ensure every assigned project has clear Sr. CPM ownership, an integrated commissioning plan and schedule, and an effective coordination cadence.
- Ensure Sr. CPMs serve as the primary project-level owners for the overall commissioning scope, communication, cross-functional coordination, milestone management, turnover, and closeout.
- Establish consistent expectations for readiness reviews, dashboards, reporting, issue tracking, documentation, turnover, and closeout.
- Balance Sr. CPM assignments and workload across regions and projects based on schedule, complexity, risk, and portfolio priorities.
- Drive early identification and escalation of issues affecting energization, commissioning, substantial completion, contractual milestones, and customer commitments.
- Support Sr. CPMs in resolving cross-functional, contractual, schedule, resource, and stakeholder challenges.
- Oversee Sr. CPM engagement with Project Management, Operations, Preconstruction, Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Field Testing, Safety, Quality, SCADA, OT Infrastructure, and other partner teams.
- Partner with the HV and BESS/PV Field Execution leaders to integrate technical scope, field readiness, resource requirements, and execution risks into the overall project plan without replacing their technical or field-execution authority.
- Review portfolio staffing needs and resource forecasts, and recommend hiring, contract support, or assignment changes to protect project delivery.
- Monitor portfolio performance, trends, and recurring constraints; establish measures that improve ownership, transparency, predictability, and customer confidence.
- Standardize project-management processes, tools, templates, estimating and planning inputs, lessons learned, and performance reporting across the portfolio.
- Ensure safety planning, energized-work requirements, switching interfaces, and care/custody/control considerations are incorporated into commissioning plans and project coordination.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Advanced understanding of the utility-scale commissioning lifecycle from early planning through energization, performance testing, turnover, and closeout.
- Strong portfolio and multi-project management capability, including prioritization, workload balancing, resource forecasting, and executive-level escalation.
- Strong knowledge of commissioning plans, integrated schedules, readiness gates, milestone logic, turnover requirements, and project reporting.
- Ability to interpret contractual requirements and translate them into clear commissioning deliverables, responsibilities, schedules, and governance.
- Strong understanding of interfaces among Project Management, Operations, Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Performance Engineering, Field Testing, Safety, Quality, SCADA, and OT Infrastructure.
- Proficiency with project controls, P6 scheduling, dashboards, reporting systems, document-control systems, and Microsoft Office applications.
- Ability to analyze portfolio data, identify trends and risks, and communicate clear recommendations to leaders and project teams.
- Strong conflict-resolution, negotiation, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including concise executive reporting and client-facing communication.
- Functional competencies include leadership, ownership, strategic thinking, organization, collaboration, customer focus, prioritization, accountability, and drive.
Safety
- Presents, supports, and leads by example with a safety- and quality-oriented attitude.
- Leads by example to demonstrate that safety is the most important function and ensures employees follow safe work practices.
- Continually reinforces safe behaviors and promptly corrects at-risk behaviors.
- Adheres to and ensures team members understand applicable standard operating procedures.
- Leads and supports project and site teams in technical, quality, and safety matters using established systems and processes.
Minimum Skills or Experience Requirements:
- A minimum of 8 years of progressive experience in EPC commissioning, project management, construction management, or delivery of utility-scale electrical or renewable-energy projects.
- Demonstrated experience leading employees and managing a multi-project or portfolio-level workload.
- Proven experience integrating commissioning activities into project schedules, milestones, budgets, and cross-functional delivery plans.
- Strong understanding of utility-scale solar, battery energy storage, and high-voltage commissioning interfaces.
- Demonstrated ability to identify and escalate project risks, balance competing priorities, and drive cross-functional resolution.
- Demonstrated ability to train, mentor, and develop project-management personnel.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and stakeholder groups simultaneously.
- Strong Microsoft Office skills and proficiency with scheduling, project controls, reporting, dashboard, and document-control systems.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, or a related field is preferred; equivalent relevant experience will be considered.
- PMP or other relevant project-management certification is preferred.
- Valid driver’s license.
Physical Demands and Environmental Conditions
- Occasional exposure to weather, harsh outdoor environments, and variable site conditions.
- Requires frequent stooping, bending, crouching, reaching, handling, finger dexterity, sitting, standing, walking, and lifting 50 or more pounds.
- Requires the ability to see details at close range and at a distance, hear and communicate effectively, and possess depth perception.
- Occasional climbing and carrying, proximity to moving mechanical parts, and work in high, exposed, or difficult-to-access locations.
- The noise intensity level may be high.
- Work may occur on or near lifts and other machines.
- Work may occur near medium- and high-voltage equipment.
- Regular travel is required to support project teams, regional alignment, leadership engagement, and portfolio needs.
SOLV Energy Is an Equal Opportunity Employer
At SOLV Energy we celebrate the power of our differences. We are committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces that improve our communities. SOLV Energy prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind against an employee or applicant based on race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, or ethnicity, mental or physical disability, veteran status, parental status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Benefits:
Employees (and their families) are eligible for medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance. Employees can enroll in our company’s 401(k) plan and are provided vacation, sick and holiday pay.
Compensation Range:
$133,634.00 - $173,724.00
Pay Rate Type:
Hourly
SOLV Energy does not accept unsolicited candidate introductions, referrals or resumes from third-party recruiters or staffing agencies. We require all third-party recruiters to communicate exclusively with our internal talent acquisition team. SOLV Energy will not pay a placement fee to any third-party recruiter or agency that has not coordinated their recruiting activity with the appropriate member of our internal talent acquisition team.
In addition, candidate introductions or resumes can only be submitted to our internal talent acquisition recruiting team if a signed vendor agreement is already on file and the third-party recruiter or agency has received formal instructions from our internal talent acquisition team to submit candidates for a particular job posting.
Any unsolicited candidate introductions, referrals or resumes sent by third-party recruiters to SOLV Energy or directly to any of our employees, or received through our website or career portal, will be considered property of SOLV Energy and will not be eligible for a placement fee. In the event a third-party recruiter submits a resume or refers a candidate without a previously signed vendor agreement, SOLV Energy explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire the candidate(s) without financial liability to such third-party recruiter.
Job Number: J13851
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