Director Of Field Operations (Remote)

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:
We are seeking a proven leader to build, scale, and lead a high-performing, nationwide field operations organization supporting utility-scale solar and energy storage assets.

This role owns the execution of field service across a large and growing portfolio, leading a distributed team of regional leadership and hundreds of technicians.

This is a critical leadership position responsible for setting the standard for safety, operational accountability, and service excellence across the organization.

The Director of Field Operations will drive process standardization, workforce performance, and continuous improvement at scale, ensuring best-in-class safety, technician retention, uptime, responsiveness, and customer satisfaction.

This role is ideal for a hands-on, results-driven leader who thrives in fast-paced environments and has a track record of leading large, technician-based organizations across multiple regions.

This role can be fully remote, or hybrid with regular in office presence in San Diego, CA, Bend, OR, or Edison, NJ, with up to 50% travel required.

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:


* Own performance and execution of a nationwide field service organization consisting of Regional Managers, District Managers, and hundreds of technicians.


* Drive accountability and performance across all levels of the field organization.


* Ensure consistent, high-quality execution of preventative and corrective maintenance across all sites.


* Establish clear operating rhythms, expectations, and performance standards.


* Lead from the front in building and sustaining a best-in-class safety culture.


* Ensure absolute compliance with OSHA, NFPA 70E, and all company and client safety requirements.


* Implement scalable safety programs, training, and accountability mechanisms across all regions.


* Own incident response, root cause analysis, and corrective action to prevent recurrence.


* Drive measurable improvement in leading and lagging safety indicators.


* Design, implement, and enforce standardized processes and SOPs across all field activities.


* Eliminate variability in execution by driving consistency in maintenance, troubleshooting, and reporting.


* Scale systems, tools, and workflows to support rapid portfolio and organizational growth.


* Lead adoption of CMMS, digital field tools, and data-driven decision-making.


* Own key performance metrics including safety, uptime, response time, productivity, a...