Director of Permitting

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 Director of Permitting is a senior leadership role responsible for the strategy structure and performance of SOLV Energys permitting program across all project types including utility-scale solar BESS high-voltage and O&M. This role establishes enterprise-wide permitting standards develops and manages a team of Regional Permitting Managers and serves as the executive point of escalation for complex regulatory jurisdictional and stakeholder matters. The Director is SOLV Energys senior external relationship holder with regulatory agencies and clients on permitting-related issues and plays a key role in business development contract development and cross-functional alignment.

This role can be based full-time with regular in office presence in San Diego CA or Edison NJ or remote in Dallas TX or Denver CO. Specific location details and expectations will be discussed during the interview process.

Job Description:

*This job description reflects managements assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned

Position Responsibilities and Duties:

Program Leadership & Strategy

• Develop and own SOLV Energys enterprise permitting strategy standards and processes across all project types and geographies

• Build lead and develop a team of Regional Permitting Managers (West Central East) who handle day-to-day permitting execution

• Define regional coverage models workload allocation and staffing plans aligned with the project pipeline

• Establish andmaintainpermitting playbooks templates and best practices that can be deployed consistently across all regions

• Drive continuous improvement ofpermittingworkflows tools and reporting to increase efficiency and reduce schedule risk

• Own and track keypermittingKPIs across the portfolio; provide executive-level reporting and trend analysis

Escalation & Senior Relationship Management

• Serve as the senior point of escalation for complex high-stakes or politically sensitive permitting matters that exceed the regional manager level

• Cultivate andmaintainexecutive-level relationships with key AHJs (federal state and local) regulatory bodies and community stakeholders across SOLVs operating territories

• Represent SOLV Energy at public hearings agency meetings and industry forums at the Director level

• Advocate on behalf of projects and owners in front of elected officials planning commissions and agency heads

• Identifyandmonitorregulatory trends legislative changes and policy shifts that could affect SOLVs project portfolio; brief leadership accordingly

• Lead negotiation strategy with AHJs when code interpretations or requirements conflict with project design or established practice

Business Development & Client-Facing Support

• Providepermittingdue diligence risk assessment and entitlement consulting support during the business development and preconstruction phase

• Represent SOLV Energys permitting capabilities during client interviews RFP responses and preconstruction meetings

• Develop and review contract exhibits related to owner and contractor permitting responsibilities

• Provide senior-levelpermittingconsultation and advisory services to clients as needed throughout the project lifecycle

• Collaborate with the Impact Group (community relations government affairs ESG) to alignpermittingstrategy with stakeholder engagement ensuring early community support and government goodwill ahead of permit filings

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Partner with Engineering Preconstruction Scheduling Estimating and Operations to embed permitting requirements and timelines into project plans

• Work with Legal and Finance on permitting-related risk contractual compliance and cost recovery matters

• Ensure thatpermittingprogram costs are tracked budgeted and where applicable job-charged for financial accountability

Minimum Skills or Experience Requirements:

• 15 years of experience in the renewable energy or EPC construction industry with significant focus on utility-scale project permitting

• 7 years of progressive leadership experience managing permitting teams and programs at scale

• Demonstrated success building and leading regional or national permitting functions

• Deep knowledge of federal state and local AHJ requirements across multiple U.S. geographies

• Proventrack recordmanaging executive-level relationships with regulatory agencies government officials and clients

• Experience developing permitting strategy during project pursuit and preconstruction phases

• Strong executive presence with the ability torepresentSOLV Energy at the highest levels of client government and industry engagement

• Bachelors degree in Engineering Environmental Studies Construction Management Planning or related field preferred

• Ability to travel up to40% of the time; regional travel asrequiredfor escalated matters and strategic relationship management

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without requiring employer sponsorship now or in the future.

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 companys 401(k) plan and are provided vacation sick and holiday pay.

Compensation Range:

$150080.00 - $187600.00

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 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.

Job Number: J13739

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