Commissioning Project Manager, HV

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 Commissioning Project Manager - HV/BESS is accountable for planning, managing, and delivering the complete commissioning scope for assigned high-voltage substation or battery energy storage projects, typically across two to three concurrent projects. The role functions as the project manager for the assigned technical scope from early planning and readiness through energization, testing, acceptance, substantial completion, and turnover. This position owns scope, schedule, resource planning, cost awareness, risk, technical coordination, stakeholder alignment, documentation, and issue resolution. The Commissioning Project Manager exercises independent judgment within the assigned scope and serves as the primary commissioning point of contact for project teams, customers, utilities, OEMs, and commissioning partners.

This role is hybrid, with onsite presence required at job sites and partial remote work. 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 the assigned HV or BESS commissioning scope across typically 2-3 concurrent projects, including deliverables, milestones, schedule, resources, risks, constraints, documentation, and turnover.
• Develop and maintain a project-specific commissioning execution plan, milestone and deliverables register, responsibility assignments, readiness criteria, integrated schedule activities, and resource forecast.
• Translate contract requirements, technical specifications, interconnection requirements, permit conditions, OEM requirements, and company standards into an executable commissioning scope and work plan.
• Establish priorities and make day-to-day project decisions within the assigned scope; promptly escalate safety, contractual, technical, schedule, cost, or resource issues that require leadership action.
• Track progress, productivity, forecasted completion, constraints, and corrective actions; provide accurate daily and weekly reporting to commissioning and project leadership.

Technical and Field Execution

• Review applicable IFC drawings, one-line and three-line diagrams, equipment data, control narratives, relay and protection documentation, sequence-of-operations documents, OEM manuals, test requirements, and interconnection deliverables.
• Coordinate the development, technical review, approval, and field implementation of commissioning plans, procedures, test forms, energization prerequisites, and acceptance criteria with Commissioning Engineering and subject-matter experts.
• Lead readiness reviews and verify that construction, quality, engineering, documentation, communications, controls, equipment, staffing, and safety prerequisites are complete before testing or energization proceeds.
• Manage execution of pre-commissioning, cold, warm, and hot commissioning activities applicable to the assigned scope, including functional, protection and control, communications, synchronization, utility capability, performance, and acceptance testing.
• Direct and coordinate field commissioning teams, technicians, OEM technical advisors, third-party testing providers, subcontractors, and other specialists; confirm responsibilities, sequencing, access, and witness requirements.
• Evaluate technical issues, test failures, deficiencies, and nonconformances; lead troubleshooting, assign corrective actions, confirm retesting, and manage closure without compromising safety or quality.
• For HV assignments, coordinate substation apparatus, protection and control, SCADA/communications, station service, metering, utility, energization, and operational turnover interfaces.
• For BESS assignments, coordinate battery enclosures, inverters/PCS, transformers, controls, EMS/PPC/SCADA, fire and life-safety interfaces, OEM requirements, functional testing, and performance or capacity testing interfaces.
  

Schedule, Cost, Risk, and Stakeholder Management

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