Senior Commissioning Manager, Portfolio Delivery; 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 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.

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

• 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, care/custody/control considerations are incorporated into commissioning plans and project coordination.

• 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…