Hybrid Commissioning Program Manager - HV Substations & BESS

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) plan

Paid vacation

Sick and holiday pay

Job summary

SOLV Energy is seeking a Commissioning Project Manager to plan, execute, and manage the commissioning phase for utility-scale solar, battery storage, SCADA, and HV substation projects nationwide. The role requires coordinating with execution teams, owner project managers, site engineers, and quality teams to ensure compliant installation, testing, and turnover.

The position is hybrid with onsite attendance at job sites and some remote work; travel to multiple sites will be required.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in commissioning, startup, testing, construction, operations, or project delivery for utility-scale electrical facilities, with substantial HV substation or BESS exposure.
• Demonstrated ownership of a technical project scope, including schedule, resources, stakeholders, risk, issue resolution, documentation, and delivery commitments.
• Experience coordinating multiple concurrent projects or complex workstreams and leading cross-functional field teams without direct reporting relationships.
• 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 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.
• Review applicable IFC drawings, one-line and three-line diagrams, equipment data, control narratives, relay and protection documentation, sequence-of-operations documents, OEM manuals, test requirements, and interconnection deliverables.
• Coordinate the development, technical review, approval, and field implementation of commissioning plans, procedures, test forms, energization prerequisites, and acceptance criteria with Commissioning Engineering and subject-matter experts.
• Lead readiness reviews and verify prerequisites are complete before testing or energization proceeds.
• Manage pre-commissioning, cold, warm, and hot commissioning activities for the assigned scope, including functional, protection and control, communications, synchronization, utility capability, performance, and acceptance testing.
• Direct and coordinate field commissioning teams, technicians, OEM 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, and manage retesting and closure safely.

Skills

HV substations

BESS commissioning

Project ownership

Stakeholder management

Field team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related

Tools

Microsoft Office

Primavera P6

Job description

SOLV Energy is seeking a Commissioning Project Manager to plan, execute, and manage the commissioning phase for utility-scale solar, battery storage, SCADA, and HV substation projects nationwide. The role requires coordinating with execution teams, owner project managers, site engineers, and quality teams to ensure compliant installation, testing, and turnover.

The position is hybrid with onsite attendance at job sites and some remote work; travel to multiple sites will be required.