Remote Director, BESS Augmentation & Growth

SOLV Energy, Inc.; North Carolina; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

SOLV Energy, Inc. seeks a Director of BESS Augmentation to lead strategic and operational efforts across battery energy storage system augmentation projects.

You will guide Superintendents, coordinate with project managers, and drive portfolio planning, safety, and profitability for SOLV and client projects. The role is fully remote with some travel and the opportunity to shape large-scale energy storage deployments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, or related discipline.
• Progressive leadership experience in utility-scale BESS, power generation, electrical construction, commissioning, operations and maintenance.
• Experience leading managers, Superintendents, field teams, subcontractors, and multiple concurrent BESS augmentation projects.
• Advanced knowledge of BESS governance, estimating, budgeting, forecasting, scheduling, procurement, contracts, outage planning, risk, change control, commissioning, and financial performance.
• Strong commercial judgment and experience partnering with clients, owners, Estimating, and project management.
• Ability to communicate strategy, priorities, performance, and risk effectively to executives, clients, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Advanced knowledge of battery systems, power conversion, transformers, switchgear, protection and controls, communications, HVAC, and fire detection and suppression.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for BESS augmentation programs, Superintendents, and technical teams in partnership with project managers.
• Set portfolio priorities, staffing plans, governance, performance expectations, and augmentation strategies.
• Direct safe field execution, outage and resource planning, subcontractor coordination, quality, schedule, testing, commissioning, and turnover.
• Partner with project managers on budgets, procurement, contracts, schedules, forecasts, risks, change control, and closeout.
• Review portfolio safety, quality, schedule, cost, margin, technical risk, commissioning readiness, customer commitments, and corrective actions.
• Develop leaders and technical personnel through coaching, training, succession planning, and performance management.
• Coordinate with internal teams, OEMs, integrators, utilities, contractors, and clients to align execution and resolve escalated issues.
• Standardize project controls, reporting, installation and commissioning practices, and lessons learned to improve consistency and profitability.
• Lead BESS safety planning and compliance, including electrical safe work, lockout/tagout, energized work, emergency response, environmental requirements, and OEM procedures.
• Support estimating, scope development, procurement, and vendor quotations for batteries, enclosures, power conversion, transformers, controls, HVAC, fire systems, cabling, and related upgrades.
• Oversee installation and integration of BESS electrical, mechanical, controls, communications, thermal-management, and fire-protection systems.
• Support operating sites with augmentation planning, capacity restoration, compatibility assessments, troubleshooting, and execution.
• Lead cross-functional resolution of battery, OEM, firmware, controls, and balance-of-system issues through documented ownership and closure.
• Review forecasts, profit and loss, estimating accuracy, contingency, and margin-improvement actions.
• Maintain lifecycle oversight from opportunity qualification and feasibility through design, procurement, installation, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.
• Develop BESS augmentation, optimization, reliability, and lifecycle-service opportunities with Business Development, Asset Management, and project teams.
• Train regional teams and improve safety, constructability, repeatability, schedule, cost, quality, and operational performance.
• Travel at least 30% to support projects, sites, clients, and team development.
• Maintain relevant professional and technical knowledge.
• Complete other responsibilities as assigned.

Skills

Leadership

Portfolio management

Safety compliance

Stakeholder communication

Financial acumen

BESS knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, or related discipline

Job description

SOLV Energy, Inc. seeks a Director of BESS Augmentation to lead strategic and operational efforts across battery energy storage system augmentation projects.

You will guide Superintendents, coordinate with project managers, and drive portfolio planning, safety, and profitability for SOLV and client projects. The role is fully remote with some travel and the opportunity to shape large-scale energy storage deployments.