Commissioning Lead - HV Substations & BESS

SOLV Energy; Massachusetts; Hybrid; USD 111,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

SOLV Energy is seeking a Commissioning Project Manager to lead the planning, execution, and management of commissioning across utility-scale solar, storage, and substations nationwide. This hybrid role requires onsite presence at job sites with partial remote work.

You will coordinate with project teams, owners, and suppliers to ensure testing and energization meet contractual requirements and facilitate smooth turnover to operations.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of progressive experience in commissioning, startup, testing, construction, operations, or project delivery for utility-scale electrical facilities.
• Experience with HV substations or BESS commissioning and testing.
• Ability to read and interpret IFC drawings, schematics, and interconnection requirements.

Responsibilities

• Own the HV or BESS commissioning scope across typically 2-3 concurrent projects, including deliverables, milestones, schedule, resources, risks, constraints, documentation, and turnover.
• Develop and maintain a project-specific commissioning execution plan, milestone and deliverables register, responsibility assignments, readiness criteria, integrated schedule activities, and resource forecast.
• Translate contract requirements, technical specifications, interconnection requirements, permit conditions, OEM requirements, and company standards into an executable commissioning scope and work plan.
• Establish priorities and make day-to-day project decisions within the assigned scope; escalate safety, contractual, technical, schedule, cost, or resource issues as needed.
• Track progress, provide daily and weekly reporting to commissioning and project leadership.
• Lead readiness reviews and ensure prerequisites are complete before testing or energization proceeds.
• Coordinate with owners, utilities, OEMs, and contractors while protecting witness and notice requirements.

Skills

HV substation commissioning

BESS commissioning

Project management

Electric power systems

SCADA systems

IFC drawings reading

Microsoft Office

Primavera P6

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Office

Job description

SOLV Energy is seeking a Commissioning Project Manager to lead the planning, execution, and management of commissioning across utility-scale solar, storage, and substations nationwide. This hybrid role requires onsite presence at job sites with partial remote work.

You will coordinate with project teams, owners, and suppliers to ensure testing and energization meet contractual requirements and facilitate smooth turnover to operations.