Remote Senior Commissioning Leader – Utility-Scale Projects

SOLV Energy; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

SOLV Energy is a nationwide leader in designing, building, and maintaining solar, storage, and high-voltage projects. We seek a Senior Commissioning Manager to lead the Commissioning Project Management function and provide portfolio-level oversight for Testing & Commissioning across SOLV Energy projects.

The role is fully remote, with interview discussions detailing location expectations. You will guide a multi-disciplinary team, standardize processes, and ensure readiness and milestone

Qualifications

• A minimum of 8 years of progressive experience in EPC commissioning, project management, construction management, or delivery of utility-scale electrical or renewable-energy projects.
• Demonstrated experience leading employees and managing a multi-project or portfolio-level workload.
• Proven experience integrating commissioning activities into project schedules, milestones, budgets, and cross-functional delivery plans.
• Strong understanding of utility-scale solar, battery energy storage, and high-voltage commissioning interfaces.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and escalation of project risks, balance competing priorities, and drive cross-functional resolution.
• Demonstrated ability to train, mentor, and develop project-management personnel.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and stakeholder groups simultaneously.
• PMP or other relevant project-management certification is preferred.
• Valid driver’s license.

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, care/custody/control considerations are incorporated into commissioning plans and project coordination.

Skills

Portfolio management

P6 scheduling

Dashboards

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Communication

Risk management

Cross-functional collaboration

Project controls

Microsoft Office

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, or related field

Tools

Primavera P6

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Office

Job description

SOLV Energy is a nationwide leader in designing, building, and maintaining solar, storage, and high-voltage projects. We seek a Senior Commissioning Manager to lead the Commissioning Project Management function and provide portfolio-level oversight for Testing & Commissioning across SOLV Energy projects.

The role is fully remote, with interview discussions detailing location expectations. You will guide a multi-disciplinary team, standardize processes, and ensure readiness and milestone