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.
  • Drive root-cause analysis and corrective-action discipline on schedule, quality, and cost variances.
  • 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.
• 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