Solvest – Who We Are:
Solvest was founded in the Yukon in 2015 and has become a leader in renewable energy across northern and remote regions. We design and deliver large-scale solar and battery storage projects built for challenging environments. Our work is built on long-term partnerships with communities, municipalities, and commercial clients where collaboration, trust, and shared outcomes matter. Our core values are Innovation, Trust, Empowerment, and Tenacity.
Our secret weapon is the Solvest PowerPod: our in-house manufactured, modular, Canadian-made Battery Energy Storage System (BESS). It has been field-tested in the Arctic and is designed to perform where off-the-shelf solutions fall apart. We are ready to scale.
What We Offer:
- A people-focused workplace where our employees are the centre of our culture.
- A strong team that invests in each other.
- Work/Life balance offering a 4-day work week (36 hours).
- Competitive compensation.
- Employer-paid health benefits.
- Open book financials across the company.
The Opportunity:
We want a project developer who closes deals and sets the standard. This is a high-performance individual contributor role with national scope. You will lead project development for our PowerPod product for clients in mining, exploration, First Nations, remote infrastructure, travel lodges, and beyond.
The work is complex project origination. You will position the PowerPod as the core of reliable, independent energy systems for remote, diesel-dependent sites. You will work through long consultative cycles, build real trust with stakeholders whose power cannot fail at minus forty, and own the full cycle from lead generation to contract close to a clean handoff to our operations team.
This role is focused on identifying and closing opportunities in remote off-grid markets: mining, travel lodges, highway camps, and rural communities seeking energy independence.
We move fast and our work is meaningful, which means the pace is real and the expectations are high. If you thrive in an environment where you're trusted to figure things out and take ownership of outcomes, you'll feel right at home here. If you need rigid structure and a fully defined playbook before you can move, this likely isn't the right fit.
This is a remote position with opportunities generated across Canada.
Note: This role is focused on battery energy storage system integration in remote and off-grid markets. Candidates with experience limited to software, SaaS, short-cycle product sales, or residential solar are unlikely to be a strong fit.
Employment Status: Permanent Full Time. 4-day work week (36 hours).
Compensation:
- Base Salary: $90,000 to $115,000
- Commission: 2% of gross sales
- Annual Target: $5M sales target
- The commission is uncapped. If you outperform, you get paid for it.
Benefits: Employer-paid comprehensive health benefits after 3 months (including unlimited virtual health care, mental health care, and virtual pharmacy through Dialogue); paid vacation; paid sick days; and more.
Key Responsibilities:
- Hunt and Close: Find and close high-value PowerPod opportunities across Canada. You develop your own pipeline and you close incoming leads from existing sources. Both are expected from day one.
- National Expansion: Use your existing network to get in front of clients who need what we build.
- Move Fast: Push leads through the pipeline with urgency. Work with our engineering, proposal coordination, and estimating team members to get strong proposals out quickly.
- Stakeholder Navigation: You are equally comfortable in a boardroom and a camp trailer. Own the relationship from first contact through to contract and handoff.
- Market Intelligence: Keep up with Canadian regulatory changes, carbon pricing, and federal and provincial funding programs that affect project viability.
- CRM Discipline: Keep a tight, accurate pipeline in our CRM. Forecasting matters here.
You will be expected to:
- Build your own prospecting pipeline from day one in addition to working existing and warm leads.
- Close incoming leads in parallel.
- Ramp quickly.
- Generate $5M in annual sales after 1 year.
What we measure:
- Pipeline Velocity: How fast are you moving leads from first contact to handoff?
- Conversion Rate: Are qualified leads turning into active project developments?
- Proposal Turnaround: Are you getting high quality, compelling proposals out fast and winning?
- Closed Volume: $5M closed annually. That is the number.
Who You Are:
You are sharp, credible, and relationship-driven. You understand that the Canadian remote energy market takes patience and real technical literacy, not just hustle. You are comfortable working independently across a big territory and you hold yourself to your numbers.
You are a closer. You have spent your career generating new business in complex, multi-stakeholder project environments in energy infrastructure, mining, or heavy construction. You understand the economic case for energy storage in remote areas, whether that is cutting diesel costs at a mining camp or supporting energy independence for a First Nations community. You can ramp up quickly to walk a site engineer through BESS design and walk a CFO through a 10-year IRR in the same afternoon.
You go after it. You do not wait for leads to show up. You find the most energy-vulnerable sites in Canada and you go get them.
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum 3 years of B2B project development or business development experience in energy storage, remote energy, mining services, heavy construction, or a closely related field. A track record of closing complex, multi-stakeholder deals is required. If chosen to interview, you will be expected to openly discuss results.
- Experience with mining operations, Indigenous communities, or remote infrastructure markets is a strong asset.
- An existing network in the Canadian mining or remote energy sector is a significant advantage.
- Familiarity with the Canadian regulatory landscape, carbon pricing, and federal or provincial funding programs is an asset.
- You can ramp up quickly to discuss BESS design and project economics without leaning on an engineer in the room.
- Proficiency with CRM systems and pipeline reporting.
- Strong communicator, written and verbal.
- Organized, self-motivated, and accountable.
- Willing to travel across Northern Canada as the role demands.
Additional Requirements:
- Background check
- Driver's license with a clean abstract and minimum 3 years claims experience history
How to Apply:
Submit your resume and a brief cover letter outlining your experience to our People Department at https://www.solvest.ca/careers (https://www.solvest.ca/careers). We value clarity and directness. Show us how you think as well as the results you’ve obtained, not just where you’ve worked.
We appreciate the interest of all applicants. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Solvest is an inclusive equal employment opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, record of offences, age, marital status, family status, or disability.
