Senior SCADA Innovation & Design Manager

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 Senior SCADA Innovation & Design Manager will provide strategic leadership and technical governance for SOLV Energy's SCADA platform, overseeing innovation (R&D), system design standards, and regulatory compliance to ensure scalable, secure, and industry-leading solutions across all SOLV Energy projects.

This role is responsible for setting the long-term technical vision of the SCADA platform, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with SOLV's business objectives across EPC, O&M, and third-party delivery.

Additionally, this role will oversee the project execution for the SCADA Design team and leverage that team as an avenue for incorporating new initiatives.

This position leads the Innovation and Design engineering teams, guiding the development, standardization, and adoption of advanced SCADA architectures, tools, and workflows.

This individual serves as the senior technical authority for platform evolution, design consistency, and compliance alignment, balancing innovation with operational reliability and regulatory requirements.

Working cross-functionally with Engineering, Project Delivery, OTS, Cybersecurity, Operations, and external stakeholders, this role reduces technical risk, improves execution quality and efficiency, and ensures SOLV's
SCADA capabilities remain competitive and future-ready.

This role is based full-time in our office in Bend, OR.

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:



* Lead and develop multidisciplinary engineering teams and support talent development.


* Develop and maintain process workflows, clearly defining individual tasks and collaboration points.


* Provide senior technical governance for SCADA architecture, hardware, software, and network design standards.


* Ensure compliance with UL, NEC, NERC-CIP, IEEE, utility, and cybersecurity requirements.


* Serve as senior technical escalation point for complex SCADA challenges.


* Support the OTS Preconstruction team by providing technical and budgetary input during scope of work reviews.


* Support Business Development with technical presentations to prospective customers.


* Participate in visits and quality inspections of vendor and subcontractor facilities.

Feb 2026 Innovation


* Lead and execute the SCADA innovation and R&D roadmap, including advanced controls, testing environments (HIL/CHIL), and evaluation of emerging technologies.


* Maintain strategic relationships with SOLV Energy business partners and equipment OEMs ...