Senior Director, Workforce Capability

SOLV Energy, Inc.; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 191,000 - 238,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

SOLV Energy seeks a Senior Director, Workforce Capability to build and lead the enterprise approach to developing the technical capabilities needed to safely, effectively, and consistently execute our work. The role drives the training ecosystem, including functional training, operations and apprenticeship programs, and scalable learning infrastructure across a dispersed workforce.

Reporting to senior leadership, you will establish governance, standards, and budgets, partnering with Operations,

Qualifications

• 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.
• Experience building or transforming technical training systems at scale.
• 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 in construction, utilities, energy, manufacturing, or other complex environments is preferred.
• Experience building and leading multidisciplinary teams for enterprise capability development.
• Ability to establish new enterprise standards and operating models and manage change.
• Experience leveraging AI and data-driven insights to accelerate capability development.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute SOLV’s enterprise workforce capability strategy aligned with growth and priorities.
• Establish framework to identify critical capabilities, assess gaps, and sustain them.
• Partner with leaders to reflect standards, field realities, and evolving requirements.
• Lead the Training Center as a core component of the capability strategy.
• Provide strategic direction for SOLV apprenticeship program.
• Lead learning enablement including instructional design, learning tech, and knowledge management.
• Connect workforce planning with training, qualification, career progression, and deployment.
• Establish enterprise measures of capability investments on readiness, safety, quality, and productivity.
• Own budgets, resources, and staffing across programs and large-scale initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Change management

Workforce development

Enterprise learning

LMS knowledge

Workday Learning

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Workday Learning (LMS)

Job description

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.

Job Description:

*This job description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned

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.

_ 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.

_ 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