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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 SVP of High Voltage leads SOLV Energy's High Voltage construction business unit, holding full P&L accountability for the safe, on-schedule, and on-budget delivery of substations, switchyards, gen-tie and transmission lines, and high/medium voltage interconnection scope across SOLV's utility-scale solar, BESS portfolio, and direct to utility customers. The role owns HV strategy, estimating, preconstruction, operational execution, organizational capability, and customer/utility relationships, and partners closely with the PV, BESS, and Transmission business units and the Infrastructure shared services functions (project controls, finance, and business development). This is a senior leadership role responsible for scaling a self-perform and strategically subcontracted HV organization to support SOLV's growing interconnection-driven pipeline, and direct to utility customers, while managing the schedule, performance, and health of all HV projects.
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:

Business & P&L Leadership

• Own the full P&L for the High Voltage business unit, including revenue, margin, backlog quality, and working capital performance.
• Manage the HV estimating and preconstruction teams
• Sign off on all proposals for HV,
• Set HV strategy and growth targets aligned with SOLV's Infrastructure pipeline and corporate objectives.
• Define and execute the self-perform vs. subcontract strategy for substation, switchyard, and transmission scope.
• Partner with shared services on bid strategy, and risk-adjusted pricing for HV scope.

Operational Execution

• Direct execution across a multi-project HV portfolio, ensuring delivery to schedule, budget, quality, and contractual commitments.
• Own the HV stage gate discipline from preconstruction handoff through energization, commissioning, and closeout.
• Manage long-lead-item (LLI) procurement strategy and authorization for transformers, switchgear, breakers, and protection equipment - including LNTP decisioning to protect customer outage and energization windows.
• Drive root-cause analysis and corrective-action discipline on schedule, quality, and cost variances.

Safety & Quality

• Champion an industry-leading HV safety culture, with rigorous adherence to NFPA 70E, arc flash, LOTO, and energized-work protocols.
• Hold field and project leadership accountable for safety performance as the unit's first operating priority.
• Ensure QA/QC programs meet utility, EOR, and AHJ requirements through testing, commissioning, and energization.

Customer, Utility & Interconnection

• Serve as the senior HV relationship owner with customers, utilities, ISOs/RTOs, and AHJs.
• Oversee interconnection coordination, utility witness/energization milestones, and protection & control scope alignment.
• Manage EOR and AVL relationships and resolve engineering/equipment-approval issues that affect HV scope.

Organization & Talent

• Build and scale the HV organization - project management, field leadership, engineering coordination, and craft - to meet pipeline demand.
• Develop bench strength and succession across HV leadership roles.
• Standardize HV SOPs, tools, and project controls in partnership with the Infrastructure shared services model.

Integration & Cross-BU Collaboration

• Partner with the SVP of BESS and Transmission leadership to coordinate HV scope on integrated solar-plus-storage and transmission projects.
• Support M&A integration of acquired HV/transmission capabilities, including process, systems, and org alignment.

Minimum Skills or Experience Requirements:

• 15+ years of progressive experience in high voltage / substation / transmission construction, with utility-scale or large industrial project exposure.
• Demonstrated P&L or senior operational leadership over a construction business unit or large portfolio.
• Deep technical command of substation, switchyard, and transmission line construction; protection & control; testing, commissioning, and energization.
• Proven track record delivering complex HV projects safely, on schedule, and on budget.
• Strong utility, ISO/RTO, and AHJ relationship management experience, including interconnection and energization processes.
• Expert-level HV safety leadership (NFPA 70E, arc flash, LOTO, energized work).
• Experience managing LLI procurement risk and equipment supply chain constraints.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in renewable EPC (utility-scale solar and/or BESS) interconnection scope.
• Self-perform HV construction leadership.
• PE license, PMP, or equivalent technical/management credentials.
• Experience scaling and integrating acquired construction organizations.
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Construction Management, or related field.

Key Relationships

• Reports to: EVP, Energy Infrastructure
• Peers: SVP, BESS; Transmission business unit leadership
• Partners with: Shared services (Finance, Project Controls, Business Development); Procurement/Vendor Management; Health & Safety
• External: Customers, utilities, ISOs/RTOs, AHJs, EORs, equipment OEMs

Success Measures (First 12-18 Months)

• HV safety performance against unit targets.
• On-time energization and commissioning milestone delivery across active portfolio.
• Margin and backlog quality improvement.
• LLI procurement risk mitigation and schedule protection on at-risk projects.
• HV org capacity and bench depth aligned to pipeline.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without requiring employer sponsorship now or in the future.

SOLV Energy Is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At SOLV Energy we celebrate the power of our differences. We are committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces that improve our communities. SOLV Energy prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind against an employee or applicant based on race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, or ethnicity, mental or physical disability, veteran status, parental status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Benefits:
Employees (and their families) are eligible for medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance. Employees can enroll in our company's 401(k) plan and are provided vacation, sick and holiday pay.

Compensation Range:

$253,138.00 -$336,674.00

Pay Rate Type:

Salary

SOLV Energy does not accept unsolicited candidate introductions, referrals or resumes from third-party recruiters or staffing agencies. We require all third-party recruiters to communicate exclusively with our internal talent acquisition team. SOLV Energy will not pay a placement fee to any third-party recruiter or agency that has not coordinated their recruiting activity with the appropriate member of our internal talent acquisition team.

In addition, candidate introductions or resumes can only be submitted to our internal talent acquisition recruiting team if a signed vendor agreement is already on file and the third-party recruiter or agency has received formal instructions from our internal talent acquisition team to submit candidates for a particular job posting.

Any unsolicited candidate introductions, referrals or resumes sent by third-party recruiters to SOLV Energy or directly to any of our employees, or received through our website or career portal, will be considered property of SOLV Energy and will not be eligible for a placement fee. In the event a third-party recruiter submits a resume or refers a candidate without a previously signed vendor agreement, SOLV Energy explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire the candidate(s) without financial liability to such third-party recruiter.

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