[Hiring] Senior Commissioning Manager @SOLV Energy

Role Description

The Senior Commissioning Manager – Sr. CPM & Portfolio Delivery leads the Commissioning Project Management function and provides portfolio-level oversight for Testing & Commissioning delivery across SOLV Energy projects. This role is accountable for consistent project ownership, integrated commissioning planning, milestone visibility, cross-functional coordination, resource balancing, reporting, and escalation from early engagement through project closeout. The position leads the Sr. CPM team and partners with HV and BESS/PV technical and field-execution leaders, who retain accountability for their respective technical standards and field-delivery scopes.

This role is fully remote. Specific location details and expectations will be discussed during the interview process.

Position Responsibilities and Duties

• 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.

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.
• Strong conflict-resolution, negotiation, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including concise executive reporting and client-facing communication.
• Functional competencies include leadership, ownership, strategic thinking, organization, collaboration, customer focus, prioritization, accountability, and drive.

Requirements

• 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 escalate 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.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills and proficiency with scheduling, project controls, reporting, dashboard, and document-control systems.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, or a related field is preferred; equivalent relevant experience will be considered.
• PMP or other relevant project-management certification is preferred.
• Valid driver’s license.

Physical Demands and Environmental Conditions

• Occasional exposure to weather, harsh outdoor environments, and variable site conditions.
• Requires frequent stooping, bending, crouching, reaching, handling, finger dexterity, sitting, standing, walking, and lifting 50 or more pounds.
• Requires the ability to see details at close range and at a distance, hear and communicate effectively, and possess depth perception.
• Occasional climbing and carrying, proximity to moving mechanical parts, and work in high, exposed, or difficult-to-access locations.
• The noise intensity level may be high.
• Work may occur on or near lifts and other machines.
• Work may occur near medium- and high-voltage equipment.
• Regular travel is required to support project teams, regional alignment, leadership engagement, and portfolio needs.

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.
• Provided vacation, sick, and holiday pay.

Compensation Range

$133,634.00 - $173,724.00

Pay Rate Type: Hourly

Company 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.