Director Of Field Operations (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 Field Operations will drive process standardization, workforce performance, and continuous improvement at scale, ensuring best-in-class safety, technician retention, uptime, responsiveness, and customer satisfaction. This role is ideal for a hands-on, results-driven leader who thrives in fast-paced environments and has a track record of leading large, technician-based organizations across multiple regions.

This role can be fully remote, or based full-time in our office in San Diego, CA, Bend, OR, or Edison, NJ. 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: 

• Own performance and execution of a nationwide field service organization consisting of Regional Managers, District Managers, and hundreds of technicians.  
• Drive accountability and performance across all levels of the field organization.  
• Ensure consistent, high-quality execution of preventative and corrective maintenance across all sites.  
• Establish clear operating rhythms, expectations, and performance standards.  
• Lead from the front in building and sustaining a best-in-class safety culture.  
• Ensure absolute compliance with OSHA, NFPA 70E, and all company and client safety requirements.  
• Implement scalable safety programs, training, and accountability mechanisms across all regions.  
• Own incident response, root cause analysis, and corrective action to prevent recurrence.  
• Drive measurable improvement in leading and lagging safety indicators.  
• Design, implement, and enforce standardized processes and SOPs across all field activities.  
• Eliminate variability in execution by driving consistency in maintenance, troubleshooting, and reporting.  
• Scale systems, tools, and workflows to support rapid portfolio and organizational growth.  
• Lead adoption of CMMS, digital field tools, and data-driven decision-making.  
• Own key performance metrics including safety, uptime, response time, productivity, and quality.  
• Identify gaps quickly and execute with urgency to resolve issues and improve performance.  
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives that materially impact reliability and cost efficiency.  
• Ensure high-quality field data and reporting to support operational and executive decision-making.   
• Recruit, develop, and retain top-tier field leaders and technicians.  
• Establish clear career paths, training programs, and performance expectations.  
• Create a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous development.  
• Align workforce planning and resource allocation with business needs across a national footprint.  
• Ensure rapid, effective response to outages and service events in line with SLAs.  
• Maintain strong client relationships through consistent execution and transparency.  
• Drive a service mindset across the organization with a focus on reliability and customer outcomes.  
• Work cross-functionally with Performance Engineering, Project Management, Safety, and Quality to remove barriers and improve performance.  
• Align field operations with broader company strategy, growth, and financial objectives.  
• Provide clear, data-driven updates to executive leadership.  

 

Minimum Skills or Experience Requirements:   

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, or a related field (or equivalent experience).  
• 10+ years of experience leading field operations, service, or O&M organizations within energy, utilities, or industrial sectors.  
• Utility-scale solar experience strongly preferred; experience in adjacent energy sectors (wind, T&D, conventional generation, or industrial electrical services) is highly val