HV Substation & BESS Commissioning Lead

SOLV Energy

Rhode Island

Hybrid

USD 111,000 - 138,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Paid vacation

Sick leave

Paid holidays

Job summary

SOLV Energy is seeking a Commissioning Project Manager - HV/BESS to lead the commissioning of high-voltage substation and battery energy storage projects across multiple sites. The role requires on-site presence with hybrid work options and entails guiding readiness, testing, and turnover from planning through energization.

You will own scope, schedule, resources, and safety, coordinating with customers, utilities, OEMs, and field teams.

Qualifications

Minimum 5 years of progressive experience in commissioning, startup, testing, construction, operations, or project delivery for utility-scale electrical facilities.
Experience coordinating multiple concurrent projects and leading cross-functional field teams.
Strong problem-solving, planning, organization, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills.
Valid driver's license and ability to satisfy project access requirements.
Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, project management, or related discipline.

Responsibilities

Own the assigned 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 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; promptly elevate safety, contractual, technical, schedule, cost or resource issues that require leadership action.
Track progress, productivity, forecasted completion, constraints, and corrective actions; provide accurate daily and weekly reporting to commissioning and project leadership.
Lead readiness reviews and verify that construction, quality, engineering, documentation, communications, controls, equipment, staffing, and safety prerequisites are complete before testing or energization proceeds.
Manage execution of pre-commissioning, cold, warm, and hot commissioning activities applicable to the assigned scope, including functional, protection and control, communications, synchronization, utility capability, performance, and acceptance testing.
Direct and coordinate field commissioning teams, technicians, OEM technical advisors, third‑party testing providers, subcontractors, and other specialists; confirm responsibilities, sequencing, access, and witness requirements.
Evaluate technical issues, test failures, deficiencies, and nonconformances; lead troubleshooting, assign corrective actions, confirm retesting, and manage closure without compromising safety or quality.
For HV assignments, coordinate substation apparatus, protection and control, SCADA/communications, station service, metering, utility, energization, and operational turnover interfaces.
For BESS assignments, coordinate battery enclosures, inverters/PCS, transformers, controls, EMS/PPC/SCADA, fire and life‑safety interfaces, OEM requirements, functional testing, and performance or capacity testing interfaces.