Remote Senior Commissioning Lead: Solar and Storage Portfolio

SOLV Energy; Connecticut; On-site; USD 134,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

SOLV Energy is seeking a Senior Commissioning Manager to lead the Sr. CPM team and oversee portfolio-level Testing & Commissioning across utility-scale solar, storage and HV projects.

This remote role requires coordinating with field and engineering leaders to ensure readiness, schedules, milestones and turnover are tightly managed. The ideal candidate brings 8+ years in EPC commissioning or project delivery for energy projects, with strong communication, leadership, and procurement/contract

Qualifications

• Advanced understanding of the utility-scale commissioning lifecycle from early planning through energization, performance testing, turnover, and closeout.
• Strong portfolio and multi-project management capability, including prioritization, workload balancing, resource forecasting, and executive-level escalation.
• Strong knowledge of commissioning plans, integrated schedules, readiness gates, milestone logic, turnover requirements, and project reporting.
• Ability to interpret contractual requirements and translate them into clear commissioning deliverables, responsibilities, schedules, and governance.
• Strong understanding of interfaces among Project Management, Operations, Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Performance Engineering, Field Testing, Safety, Quality, SCADA, and OT Infrastructure.
• Proficiency with project controls, P6 scheduling, dashboards, reporting systems, document-control systems, and Microsoft Office applications.
• Ability to analyze portfolio data, identify trends and risks, and communicate clear recommendations to leaders and project teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Sr. Commissioning Project Management team, providing clear direction, coaching, training, performance feedback, and support.
• Establish team goals, role expectations, workload priorities, and accountability consistent with T&Cx objectives.
• Hire, onboard, develop, and mentor employees while supporting succession planning and career growth.
• Build a culture of safety, project ownership, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Lead and standardize the Sr. CPM operating model across regions, business units, and project types.
• Maintain portfolio-level visibility of commissioning schedules, milestones, readiness, risks, resource needs, and project performance.
• Ensure every assigned project has clear Sr. CPM ownership, an integrated commissioning plan and schedule, and an effective coordination cadence.
• Ensure Sr. CPMs serve as the primary project-level owners for the overall commissioning scope, communication, cross-functional coordination, milestone management, turnover, and closeout.
• Establish consistent expectations for readiness reviews, dashboards, reporting, issue tracking, documentation, turnover, and closeout.
• Balance Sr. CPM assignments and workload across regions and projects based on schedule, complexity, risk, and portfolio priorities.
• Drive early identification and escalation of issues affecting energization, commissioning, substantial completion, contractual milestones, and customer commitments.
• Support Sr. CPMs in resolving cross-functional, contractual, schedule, resource, and stakeholder challenges.
• Oversee Sr. CPM engagement with Project Management, Operations, Preconstruction, Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Field Testing, Safety, Quality, SCADA, OT Infrastructure, and other partner teams.
• Partner with the HV and BESS/PV Field Execution leaders to integrate technical scope, field readiness, resource requirements, and execution risks into the overall project plan without replacing their technical or field-execution authority.
• Review portfolio staffing needs and resource forecasts, and recommend hiring, contract support, or assignment changes to protect project delivery.
• Monitor portfolio performance, trends, and recurring constraints; establish measures that improve ownership, transparency, predictability, and customer confidence.
• Standardize project-management processes, tools, templates, estimating and planning inputs, lessons learned, and performance reporting across the portfolio.
• Ensure safety planning, energized-work requirements, switching interfaces, and care/custody/control considerations are incorporated into commissioning plans and project coordination.

Skills

Commissioning lifecycle

Portfolio management

P6 scheduling

Contract interpretation

Stakeholder management

MS Office

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

PMP certification

Tools

Dashboards

Job description

SOLV Energy is seeking a Senior Commissioning Manager to lead the Sr. CPM team and oversee portfolio-level Testing & Commissioning across utility-scale solar, storage and HV projects.

This remote role requires coordinating with field and engineering leaders to ensure readiness, schedules, milestones and turnover are tightly managed. The ideal candidate brings 8+ years in EPC commissioning or project delivery for energy projects, with strong communication, leadership, and procurement/contract