Senior Director, Workforce Capability

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 Director, Workforce Capability is responsible for building and leading SOLV's enterprise approach to developing the technical capabilities required to safely, effectively, and consistently execute our work.

This role provides strategic leadership for SOLV's technical training ecosystem, including functional training, Training Center operations and programming, apprenticeship, workforce readiness, and the learning infrastructure that enables development to scale across the organization.

Working closely with Operations, Safety, Quality, Human Resources, and functional leaders, this position establishes the systems, standards, governance, and infrastructure that translate business and workforce needs into scalable capability-building solutions.

This role requires a senior leader with significant experience leading a large-scale, enterprise technical training function, ideally in construction, energy, utilities, manufacturing, or another complex, safety-critical environment with a geographically dispersed workforce.

This role is hybrid, with regular in-office presence in Dallas, TX.

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:


* Develop and execute SOLV's enterprise workforce capability strategy aligned with business growth, operational priorities, workforce plans, and future skill requirements.



* Establish a comprehensive framework for identifying critical workforce capabilities, assessing gaps, and determining how those capabilities should be built, validated, and sustained.



* Partner functional leaders and subject matter experts to anticipate emerging skill needs and ensure capability strategies reflect technical standards, field realities, and evolving business, technology, market, and customer requirements.



* Establish and provide strategic leadership for the Training Center as a core component of SOLV's workforce capability strategy and a bridge between classroom/virtual learning and demonstrated field capability.



* Provide enterprise oversight and strategic direction for SOLV apprenticeship program.



* Provide strategic leadership of the learning enablement function including instructional design, learning technology, and knowledge management.



* Create clear connections between workforce planning, technical training, qualification, career progression, and deployment of a capable workforce.



* Establish enterprise measures demonstrating the impact of capability-building investments on workforce readiness, safety...