Commissioning Project Manager, BESS

About this role

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: This role involves planning, executing, and managing the commissioning process across the utility scale solar, battery energy storage, SCADA, and electrical substation projects nationwide to ensure all systems and components are installed, tested, and operated according to the contractual requirements. The Commissioning Project Manager leads the overall commissioning phase of a given project to include all contracted EPC scope of work. The Commissioning Project Manager will work closely with project execution teams, Owner's project managers, site engineers, construction and quality managers to schedule the Commissioning activities, coordinate with affected parties, ensure witness points are held for owner oversight, and deliver results that comply with the contractual requirements and ensure a smooth transition from commissioning to closeout.

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 • Develop and manage detailed commissioning activities within the integrated P6 schedule; maintain logic, durations, sequencing, constraints, and forecast dates with project controls and execution teams. • Develop and maintain the commissioning resource plan and forecast for the assigned scope; coordinate labor, equipment, test sets, specialty services, OEM support, utility support, and third-party providers. • Monitor commitments, hours, third-party costs, and potential change impacts within the assigned scope; identify variances and support forecasts, change management, and recovery planning. • Lead commissioning coordination meetings and daily plan-of-day meetings during active execution; document decisions, constraints, owners, and due dates. • Coordinate with owners, utilities, ISOs/RTOs as applicable, OEMs, engineering, construction, quality, project management, operations, SCADA/controls, safety, and other affected parties while protecting contractual witness and notice requirements.

Safety, Energization, and Operational Control • Lead by example and stop work when conditions are unsafe, requirements are not met, or the system is not ready for the planned activity. • Coordinate energization plans, switching plans and procedures, LOTO, tagging, permit-to-work, red-rope, grounding, and energized-work requirements with authorized personnel and responsible stakeholders. • Verify roles, boundaries, approvals, communication protocols, care/custody/control requirements, and operational authority before energization or system turnover. • Ensure commissioning activities comply with company procedures, project requireme

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