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Director, Safety Integration & Operational Support

SOLV Energy, LLC
Full-time
On-site
San Diego CA Renewable Group United States of America
Solar

SOLV Energy is an engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) and solar services provider for utility solar, high voltage substation and energy storage markets across North America.

Job Description Summary:

The position plays a critical role in translating SOLV’s safety vision into day-to-day execution across all business units. This position is responsible for onboarding, coaching and mentoring safety personnel, facilitating high-level RCAs for SIF and pSIF events, supporting event management systems (e.g., Sunscreen), and assisting with the development of critical site-level safety documents.

Acting as an extension of Regional Safety Directors and a key resource to field leadership, this role ensures that the SOLV safety culture is consistently reflected in both people and practices across operational environments.

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:

Safety Personnel Onboarding

  • Lead and continuously improve onboarding for all safety roles, field and leadership, to ensure alignment with SOLV’s expectations and values. Deliver follow-up coaching and assessments.

Subcontractor Integration & Bridging

  • Coordinate with subcontractor safety personnel to align expectations and build shared accountability. Develop, maintain, and support the implementation of bridging documents for alignment. Assist with contractor onboarding and pre-mobilization planning. Ensure SOLV expectations are clearly communicated and understood across all contracted services.

SIF/SIF Event Leadership

  • Facilitate or support high-level RCA processes following pSIF and SIF events. Ensure learning teams are conducted where appropriate, and that corrective actions address systemic and behavioral contributors.

Sunscreen System Oversight

  • Serve as a key support for event reporting and tracking within Sunscreen. Coach safety team members to ensure timely and accurate entry, assist in troubleshooting, and uphold data quality standards.

Operational Safety Plan Development

  • Guide the creation and review of site-specific safety plans (SSSP), including Emergency Response
  • Plans (ERP), Electrical Safety Plans (ESP), and contractor bridging documents. Ensure alignment with SOLV standards and project-specific risks.

Field & Regional Support

  • Act as a key support partner to Regional Safety Directors. Conduct site visits, mentor safety staff, and support safety readiness at new or challenged projects. Share learnings across BU lines.

Culture & Integration

  • Champion SOLV’s safety culture through hands-on engagement with frontline teams and safety leaders. Reinforce SOLV’s values and expectations through positive reinforcement, and coaching.

Continuous Improvement

  • Identify trends in field performance, onboarding gaps, or system breakdowns and work with the broader safety leadership team to drive improvements across programs and systems.

Objectives or Goals to Measure Performance:

  • Connect - Share information and tools across regions and business units to reduce duplication and increase impact.

  • Support - Partner with 3rd party consultants for field assessments, cultural reviews, and programmatic gap analysis.

  • Align - Ensure subcontractor documents align to corporate expectations and support regional deployment.

  • Enhance -Participate in field visits to reinforce strategic programs or provide insight.

  • Guide - Collaborate with safety systems, compliance, and training teams to roll out aligned processes.

Minimum Skills or Experience Requirements:

  • 10+ years of safety leadership experience, including field and programmatic responsibilities.

  • Expertise in RCA methodologies (e.g., 5-WHY, Fishbone, TapRoot, and Learning Teams), preferred.

  • Strong background in onboarding, mentoring and safety leadership development.

  • Familiarity with safety management systems.

  • Ability to work across functional boundaries and influence without direct authority.

  • Deep commitment to cultural transformation and safety excellence.

  • Safety certification as CSP, GSP, ASP, CHST, OSHT, CUSP, CESCP or CIH preferred.

Physical Demands and Environmental Conditions:

  • Requires regular travel across the US, travel approximately 50%.

  • Occasional exposure to dust and fumes, electric shock, radiation, toxic/caustic chemicals

  • Requires frequent stooping/bending/crouching, reaching, handling, finger dexterity, sitting, standing, walking, and lifting 20 or more lbs.

  • Constant finger dexterity and ability to see details at close range and at a distance, hear, and talk, and possess depth perception.

  • Occasional climbing and carrying, proximity to moving mechanical parts, working in high exposed places.

  • The noise intensity level is high.

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:

$145,857.00 - $193,990.00

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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If you’re interested in a meaningful career with a brighter future, join the SOLV Energy Team.