Senior Commissioning Project Manager; Remote

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.

The Senior Commissioning Project Manager is accountable for integrated commissioning delivery across a portfolio of typically four to five concurrent utility-scale projects, with each project containing two to three commissioning scopes such as photovoltaic, high-voltage, battery energy storage, SCADA/controls, and related infrastructure. The role leads commissioning strategy from early project planning through energization, testing, substantial completion, commercial operation, and turnover. This position integrates the work of scope-specific commissioning project managers and field teams;

owns portfolio-level scope, schedule, resource, cost, risk, customer, and milestone visibility; resolves cross-scope conflicts; and exercises independent judgment on complex project delivery matters. The Senior Commissioning Project Manager serves as the primary commissioning leader for assigned EPC projects and is accountable for a safe, coordinated, contract-compliant, and commercially successful outcome.

This role is remote with travel required within the Midwest region. Specific location details and expectations will be discussed during the interview process.

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

• Own integrated commissioning delivery across typically 4-5 concurrent EPC projects, each with 2-3 commissioning scopes, from early planning and readiness through energization, testing, acceptance, closeout, and turnover.
• Establish the commissioning strategy, execution model, governance cadence, responsibility assignments, readiness gates, milestone plan, and escalation pathways for each assigned project.
• Translate EPC contracts, customer requirements, interconnection obligations, commercial milestones, technical requirements, and company standards into an integrated commissioning scope and execution plan.
• Exercise independent judgment and decision-making authority on complex commissioning delivery matters within assigned responsibilities; escalate material safety, contractual, commercial, technical, or organizational risks.
• Maintain clear portfolio-level visibility of status, forecast dates, risks, constraints, resources, cost exposure, decisions, corrective actions, and executive support needed.

• Lead the integration of PV, HV, BESS, SCADA/controls, network, utility, OEM, testing, and Operations and Maintenance interfaces so that scope-specific plans form one executable project commissioning plan.
• Provide functional direction, priorities, and decision support to scope-specific Commissioning Project Managers, field commissioning leads, technicians, OEM representatives, third-party providers, and project partners.
• Balance priorities and resources across the assigned portfolio; identify overload, sequencing conflicts, specialty-resource constraints, and schedule compression early and implement recovery or mitigation plans.
• Lead project and portfolio commissioning coordination meetings; establish decision logs, action ownership, due dates, escalation paths, and accountability for commitments.
• Coach less-experienced commissioning project leaders, reinforce consistent work practices, and contribute to capability development and succession planning.

• Develop and govern the integrated commissioning plan, detailed P6 schedule logic, milestone and deliverables register, resource plan, forecast, and readiness criteria for each assigned project.
• Validate dependencies among construction completion, engineering deliverables, quality turnover, utility readiness, controls and communications, energization, commissioning tests, performance tests, and contractual milestones.
• Monitor commissioning labor, equipment, testing, OEM, vendor, and third-party commitments; identify variances and support accurate forecasts, accruals, cost-to-complete assessments, and recovery planning.
• Identify scope gaps, design or construction impacts, customer-driven changes, schedule impacts, rework, standby, and other potential change events; preserve records and coordinate timely commercial evaluation with project leadership.
• Protect contract notice, witness, acceptance, documentation, milestone, liquidated-damages, and turnover requirements by ensuring issues are identified and addressed early.
• Evaluate competing project needs and recommend or authorize resource, sequence, and execution adjustments within assigned authority to protect safety, quality, schedule, and margin.

• Review technical, contractual, regulatory, and interconnection requirements and ensure appropriate…