Remote Director of Field Operations & Safety Excellence

What the Tech, Bend; Bend (OR); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

SOLV Energy is seeking a proven leader to build, scale, and lead a nationwide field operations organization supporting utility-scale solar and energy storage assets. This role owns the execution of field service across a large portfolio and leads a distributed team of regional leaders and hundreds of technicians.

The Director will drive safety standards, operational accountability, and continuous improvement at scale, with remote or hybrid options and up to 50% travel across the United States.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 10+ years of experience leading field operations, service, or O&M organizations within energy, utilities, or industrial sectors.
• Utility-scale solar experience strongly preferred; experience in adjacent energy sectors (wind, T&D, conventional generation, or industrial electrical services) is highly valued.
• Demonstrated success leading large, geographically dispersed teams (100+ personnel preferred).
• Proven ability to scale and professionalize field service organizations.
• Relentless focus on safety, execution, and accountability.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% across the United States.

Responsibilities

• Own performance and execution of a nationwide field service organization consisting of Regional Managers, District Managers, and hundreds of technicians.
• Drive accountability and performance across all levels of the field organization.
• Ensure consistent, high-quality execution of preventative and corrective maintenance across all sites.
• Establish clear operating rhythms, expectations, and performance standards.
• Lead from the front in building and sustaining a best-in-class safety culture.
• Ensure absolute compliance with OSHA, NFPA 70E, and all company and client safety requirements.
• Implement scalable safety programs, training, and accountability mechanisms across all regions.
• Own incident response, root cause analysis, and corrective action to prevent recurrence.
• Drive measurable improvement in leading and lagging safety indicators.
• Design, implement, and enforce standardized processes and SOPs across all field activities.
• Eliminate variability in execution by driving consistency in maintenance, troubleshooting, and reporting.
• Scale systems, tools, and workflows to support rapid portfolio and organizational growth.
• Lead adoption of CMMS, digital field tools, and data-driven decision-making.
• Own key performance metrics including safety, uptime, response time, productivity, and quality.
• Identify gaps quickly and execute with urgency to resolve issues and improve performance.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives that materially impact reliability and cost efficiency.
• Ensure high-quality field data and reporting to support operational and executive decision-making.
• Recruit, develop, and retain top-tier field leaders and technicians.
• Establish clear career paths, training programs, and performance expectations.
• Create a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous development.
• Align workforce planning and resource allocation with business needs across a national footprint.
• Ensure rapid, effective response to outages and service events in line with SLAs.
• Maintain strong client relationships through consistent execution and transparency.
• Drive a service mindset across the organization with a focus on reliability and customer outcomes.
• Work cross-functionally with Performance Engineering, Project Management, Safety, and Quality to remove barriers and improve performance.
• Align field operations with broader company strategy, growth, and financial objectives.
• Provide clear, data-driven updates to executive leadership.

Skills

Leadership

Safety culture

Operational excellence

Cross-regional leadership

Data-driven decisions

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Operations

Tools

CMMS

Field data tools

Data analytics

Job description

SOLV Energy is seeking a proven leader to build, scale, and lead a nationwide field operations organization supporting utility-scale solar and energy storage assets. This role owns the execution of field service across a large portfolio and leads a distributed team of regional leaders and hundreds of technicians.

The Director will drive safety standards, operational accountability, and continuous improvement at scale, with remote or hybrid options and up to 50% travel across the United States.