Director of BESS Augmentation; Remote

Position: Director of BESS Augmentation (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.

Job Description

Summary:

The Director of BESS Augmentation provides strategic and operational leadership for battery energy storage system (BESS) augmentation projects. This position directs Superintendents, works collaboratively with project managers, oversees portfolio-level planning and execution, and ensures safe, timely, profitable delivery of battery capacity additions, replacements, system upgrades, integration, testing, commissioning, and turnover for SOLV and third-party clients.

This role is fully remote. 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:

Provide strategic and operational leadership for BESS augmentation programs, Superintendents, and technical teams in partnership with project managers.

Set portfolio priorities, staffing plans, governance, performance expectations, and augmentation strategies.

Direct safe field execution, outage and resource planning, subcontractor coordination, quality, schedule, testing, commissioning, and turnover.

Partner with project managers on budgets, procurement, contracts, schedules, forecasts, risks, change control, and closeout.

Review portfolio safety, quality, schedule, cost, margin, technical risk, commissioning readiness, customer commitments, and corrective actions.

Develop leaders and technical personnel through coaching, training, succession planning, and performance management.

Coordinate with internal teams, OEMs, integrators, utilities, contractors, and clients to align execution and resolve escalated issues.

Standardize project controls, reporting, installation and commissioning practices, and lessons learned to improve consistency and profitability.

Lead BESS safety planning and compliance, including electrical safe work, lockout/tagout, energized work, emergency response, environmental requirements, and OEM procedures.

Support estimating, scope development, procurement, and vendor quotations for batteries, enclosures, power conversion, transformers, controls, HVAC, fire systems, cabling, and related upgrades.

Oversee installation and integration of BESS electrical, mechanical, controls, communications, thermal-management, and fire-protection systems.

Support operating sites with augmentation planning, capacity restoration, compatibility assessments, troubleshooting, and execution.

Lead cross-functional resolution of battery, OEM, firmware, controls, and balance-of-system issues through documented ownership and closure.

Review forecasts, profit and loss, estimating accuracy, contingency, and margin-improvement actions.

Maintain lifecycle oversight from opportunity qualification and feasibility through design, procurement, installation, commissioning, turnover, and closeout.

Develop BESS augmentation, optimization, reliability, and lifecycle-service opportunities with Business Development, Asset Management, and project teams.

Train regional teams and improve safety, constructability, repeatability, schedule, cost, quality, and operational performance.

Travel at least 30% to support projects, sites, clients, and team development.

Maintain relevant professional and technical knowledge.

Complete other responsibilities as assigned.

Key Performance Indicators:

Safety and Compliance:
Achieve zero preventable recordable incidents and 100% completion of required safety audits, training, corrective actions, and compliance reviews within assigned due dates.

Portfolio Financial Performance:
Deliver the BESS Augmentation portfolio within approved budgets and forecasts, meet or exceed annual margin targets, and maintain forecast accuracy within ±5%.Schedule and Delivery:
Complete at least 90% of projects and major milestones on or ahead of the approved baseline schedule, with recovery plans documented for material variances.

Quality and Rework:
Maintain a first-pass quality acceptance rate of at least 95% and keep rework costs below 2% of annual project revenue.

Client and Owner Engagement:
Conduct at least one strategic job-site visit or business review per quarter for each priority client or owner account, with documented needs, commitments, and…