Hybrid Commissioning Project Manager - HV Substations & BESS

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) plan

Vacation

Sick leave

Holiday pay

Job summary

SOLV Energy is seeking a Commissioning Project Manager to lead the commissioning across utility-scale solar, battery energy storage, SCADA, and HV substations nationwide.

This hybrid role requires onsite presence at job sites and periodic remote work, with coordination across project teams, owners, and third-party partners to ensure all systems are installed, tested and turned over per contractual requirements.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in commissioning, startup, testing, construction, operations, or project delivery for utility-scale electrical facilities, including substantial experience with HV substations or BESS.
• Experience coordinating multiple concurrent projects or complex workstreams and leading cross-functional field teams without relying on direct reporting relationships.
• Strong problem-solving, planning, organization, negotiation, written communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Project management capability in scope, schedule, resource, risk, stakeholder, cost, change, issue, and document management.

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 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.

Skills

HV Substations

BESS

Commissioning

Project Management

Stakeholder Management

Leadership

MS Office

P6 Scheduling

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related discipline

Tools

P6

Microsoft Office

Job description

SOLV Energy is seeking a Commissioning Project Manager to lead the commissioning across utility-scale solar, battery energy storage, SCADA, and HV substations nationwide.

This hybrid role requires onsite presence at job sites and periodic remote work, with coordination across project teams, owners, and third-party partners to ensure all systems are installed, tested and turned over per contractual requirements.