Senior Vice President, High Voltage (Remote)

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.

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.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance.
• 401(k) plan.
• Vacation, sick and holiday pay.

Compensation Range

$253,138.00 - $336,674.00

Pay Rate Type: Salary

Job Number

J13328