Senior Director, Workforce Capability

SOLV Energy, Inc.; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 191.000 - 238.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life and disability insurance

401(k) plan

Vacation and holiday pay

Sick leave

Zusammenfassung

SOLV Energy is seeking a Senior Director, Workforce Capability to build and lead the enterprise technical training ecosystem across a dispersed workforce. You will align strategy with operations, safety, and quality while directing the Training Center and apprenticeship programs.

The role requires a senior leader with extensive experience in large-scale, safety-critical environments, leveraging AI, data-driven insights, and modern learning technologies to scale capability development.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• 10+ years leading enterprise technical training or workforce capability programs.
• Experience leading a large, enterprise-wide technical or operational training function with a dispersed workforce.
• Experience transforming technical training systems at scale.
• Experience with enterprise learning technology and LMS; Workday Learning preferred.
• Ability to connect training strategy with workforce planning, operational performance, safety, quality, and business outcomes.
• Experience in construction, utilities, energy, manufacturing, or other complex environments.
• Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and drive change.
• Experience leveraging AI and data-driven insights in learning.

Aufgaben

• Develop and execute SOLV’s enterprise workforce capability strategy aligned with business growth and priorities.
• Establish framework to identify critical workforce capabilities, assess gaps, and determine how to build, validate, and sustain them.
• Partner leaders and SMEs to anticipate skill needs and ensure capability strategies reflect standards and field realities.
• Lead Training Center as core component of workforce capability strategy and bridge between learning and field capability.
• Oversee enterprise apprenticeship program.
• Lead learning enablement: instructional design, learning tech, and knowledge management.
• Create connections between workforce planning, training, qualification, and deployment of a capable workforce.
• Establish measures showing impact of capability investments on readiness, safety, quality, productivity, and retention.

Kenntnisse

Strategic leadership

Enterprise training

Learning technologies

Workforce planning

AI in learning

Cross-functional collaboration

Budget management

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Workday Learning

Learning Management Systems

Jobbeschreibung

Job Description Summary

SOLV Energy is a leading provider of infrastructure services to the power industry, designing, building and maintaining utility scale solar, battery storage and high voltage substation projects nationwide. Job Description Summary: The Senior Director, Workforce Capability is responsible for building and leading SOLV’s enterprise approach to developing the technical capabilities required to safely, effectively, and consistently execute our work. This role provides strategic leadership for SOLV’s technical training ecosystem, including functional training, Training Center operations and programming, apprenticeship, workforce readiness, and the learning infrastructure that enables development to scale across the organization. Working closely with Operations, Safety, Quality, Human Resources, and functional leaders, this position establishes the systems, standards, governance, and infrastructure that translate business and workforce needs into scalable capability-building solutions. This role requires a senior leader with significant experience leading a large-scale, enterprise technical training function, ideally in construction, energy, utilities, manufacturing, or another complex, safety-critical environment with a geographically dispersed workforce. This role is hybrid, with regular in-office presence in Dallas, TX. Specific location details and expectations will be discussed during the interview process.

Position Responsibilities and Duties

• Develop and execute SOLV’s enterprise workforce capability strategy aligned with business growth, operational priorities, workforce plans, and future skill requirements.
• Establish a comprehensive framework for identifying critical workforce capabilities, assessing gaps, and determining how those capabilities should be built, validated, and sustained.
• Partner functional leaders and subject matter experts to anticipate emerging skill needs and ensure capability strategies reflect technical standards, field realities, and evolving business, technology, market, and customer requirements.
• Establish and provide strategic leadership for the Training Center as a core component of SOLV’s workforce capability strategy and a bridge between classroom/virtual learning and demonstrated field capability.
• Provide enterprise oversight and strategic direction for SOLV apprenticeship program.
• Provide strategic leadership of the learning enablement function including instructional design, learning technology, and knowledge management.
• Create clear connections between workforce planning, technical training, qualification, career progression, and deployment of a capable workforce.
• Establish enterprise measures demonstrating the impact of capability-building investments on workforce readiness, safety, quality, productivity, retention, and business performance.
• Own enterprise technical training budgets, resource allocation, and staffing strategies across programs and large-scale initiatives.

Minimum Skills or Experience Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in technical operations, workforce development, technical training, learning, or related fields, including significant leadership experience overseeing large-scale training or workforce capability programs.
• Demonstrated experience leading a large, enterprise-wide technical or operational training function supporting a complex and geographically dispersed workforce.
• Experience building or transforming technical training systems at scale rather than solely managing established programs.
• Experience with enterprise learning technology and learning management systems; Workday Learning experience preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to connect training strategy with workforce planning, operational performance, safety, quality, and business outcomes.
• Experience operating in construction, utilities, energy, manufacturing, industrial operations, skilled trades, or another complex operational environment strongly preferred.
• Experience building and leading multidisciplinary teams responsible for enterprise capability development.
• Demonstrated ability to establish new enterprise standards and operating models while bringing leaders, subject matter experts, and frontline teams along through the change.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage artificial intelligence, learning technologies, and data-driven insights to accelerate workforce capability development and organizational performance.

Measures of Success

• Increased availability of qualified, job-ready talent for critical roles.
• Clear, consistent technical learning and qualification pathways across the enterprise.
• Improved visibility into workforce skills, qualifications, and readiness.
• Effective utilization and measurable operational impact of the Training Center.
• Strong apprenticeship completion, progression, and capability outcomes.
• Consistent enterprise standards for functional training and instructional quality.
• Demonstrated connections between workforce capability investments and improvements in safety, quality, productivity, retention, and operational performance.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without requiring employer sponsorship now or in the future.

Benefits

• Employees (and their families) are eligible for medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance.
• Employees can enroll in our company’s 401(k) plan and are provided vacation, sick and holiday pay.

Compensation Range: $190,660.00 - $238,326.00 Pay Rate Type: Salary

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SOLV Energy Is an Equal Opportunity Employer At SOLV Energy we celebrate the power of our differences. We are committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces that improve our communities. SOLV Energy prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind against an employee or applicant based on race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, or ethnicity, mental or physical disability, veteran status, parental status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Job Number: J14184

SolvEnergy.com SOLV Energy Is An Equal Opportunity Employer At SOLV Energy we celebrate the power of our differences. We are committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces that improve our communities. SOLV Energy prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind against an employee or applicant based on race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin or ethnicity, mental or physical disability, veteran status, parental status, or any other characteristic protected by law. In addition, we focus on delivering projects that support long term economic growth and create pathways for skilled careers across the country. Our mission centers on strengthening communities and advancing the energy workforce. We focus on delivering projects that support long term economic growth and create pathways for skilled careers across the country. Our mission centers on strengthening communities and advancing the energy workforce. As a national organization, we offer broad opportunities to grow your career. Whether you work in the field or in an office role, you’ll find space to develop your skills, explore new directions and build a career that makes an impact. No matter where you begin, you join a capable team driving energy forward and helping build the foundation for the next generation of power in the U.S. Learn more at solvenergy.com