Lead HV Substation & BESS Commissioning PM

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

Job summary

SOLV Energy is seeking a Commissioning Project Manager - HV/BESS to plan, manage, and deliver commissioning for high-voltage substations and battery energy storage projects nationwide. You will own scope, schedule, cost, and risk across 2-3 concurrent projects, coordinating with customers, utilities, OEMs, and field teams.

This hybrid role requires on-site presence at job sites with partial remote work; you will lead readiness reviews, testing, and turnover, ensuring safety, quality, and timely

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of progressive commissioning, startup, testing, construction, operations, or project delivery for utility-scale facilities.
• Ownership of a technical project scope including schedule, resources, risk, and documentation.
• Experience coordinating multiple concurrent projects 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 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.
• 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 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.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Written communication

Problem solving

Planning

Negotiation

Leadership

Driving license

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or related

PM certification (PMP/CCM) preferred

Tools

P6 scheduling software

Job description

SOLV Energy is seeking a Commissioning Project Manager - HV/BESS to plan, manage, and deliver commissioning for high-voltage substations and battery energy storage projects nationwide. You will own scope, schedule, cost, and risk across 2-3 concurrent projects, coordinating with customers, utilities, OEMs, and field teams.

This hybrid role requires on-site presence at job sites with partial remote work; you will lead readiness reviews, testing, and turnover, ensuring safety, quality, and timely