Hybrid Commissioning Lead - HV Substations & BESS

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

SOLV Energy is seeking a Commissioning Project Manager to lead the commissioning of HV substation and BESS systems on nationwide utility-scale projects. You will plan, execute, and manage commissioning activities across multiple projects, coordinating with owners, engineers, and field teams to meet contractual requirements and ensure smooth turnover.

The role requires strong project management, safety leadership, and the ability to drive readiness reviews, testing, and documentation while

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of progressive experience in commissioning, startup, testing, construction, operations, or project delivery for utility-scale electrical facilities.
• Ownership of a technical project scope including schedule, resources, stakeholders, risk, and delivery commitments.
• Experience coordinating multiple concurrent projects or complex workstreams and leading cross-functional field teams.
• Strong problem-solving, planning, organization, negotiation, written communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Valid driver's license and ability to satisfy project access 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; promptly escape 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.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Scheduling

Field leadership

HV substation knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

PMP certification

NETA certification

Tools

P6

Microsoft Office

Job description

SOLV Energy is seeking a Commissioning Project Manager to lead the commissioning of HV substation and BESS systems on nationwide utility-scale projects. You will plan, execute, and manage commissioning activities across multiple projects, coordinating with owners, engineers, and field teams to meet contractual requirements and ensure smooth turnover.

The role requires strong project management, safety leadership, and the ability to drive readiness reviews, testing, and documentation while