Engineer 1

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 Engineer 1 position will assist the EPC Engineering & Permitting team in administrative, organizational, permitting, and management tasks.

This role is hybrid, with regular in-office presence in San Diego, CA.

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:


* Understand, review, and sort electrical, structural, and civil engineering documentation


* Coordinate design between electrical, structural, civil, HV, and SCADA teams


* Review, QC, and comment on engineering deliverables under guidance and supervision


* Coordinate owner, owner's engineer, and independent engineer submittals


* Manage project data rooms, including uploading, downloading, and maintaining organized file structures


* Track and consolidate responses to comments and permitting questions


* Collect, organize, and communicate internal and external (Owner, AHJ etc.) comments to engineering partners


* Support permitting process


* Research requirements and preparing submittal packages


* Coordinate with SOLV Energy accounting to ensure timely payment of permitting and plan-check fees


* Schedule and organize meetings with internal teams and external engineering partners.


* Document meeting discussions and prepare meeting minutes


* Maintain and track engineering schedules to support project delivery.

Maintain project trackers and monitor status updates.


* Develop and maintain project to-do lists for new and active projects


* Support engineering and procurement teams with documentation and administrative needs


* Maintain and enforce digital document organization on internal networks and client platforms


* Coordinate engineering documentation within AutoCAD.

Utilize AutoCAD Civil 3D to support engineering deliverables, including working with georeferenced drawings, coordinate systems, and creating KMZ files for field use and stakeholder review


* Support civil and structural engineering efforts using SOLV proprietary software, including generating and reviewing pile takeoffs to assist with design coordination and procurement planning


* Create, manage, and maintain project files in SOLV proprietary software to support engineering workflows, constructability reviews, and document consistency across project phases


* Call in dig alerts as required for field activities


* Digitize handwritten field notes and organize field documentation.


* Prepare basic reports using standard templates (e.g., pile testing reports)
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