Fervo Energy · 1 week ago
Production Engineering Manager
Houston, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expFervo Energy is hiring a Production Engineering Manager to lead production engineering activities across their operating geothermal assets. This role involves optimizing plant performance, managing well systems, and integrating across various teams to enhance operational strategies and reliability.
EnergyEnergy EfficiencyEnergy ManagementNuclearRenewable Energy
Responsibilities
Own day-to-day production and injection performance for assigned geothermal assets, including well surveillance, system monitoring, and regulatory testing
Establish and maintain production engineering standards, workflows, and operating rhythms to support safe, reliable, and repeatable operations
Lead the use of real-time data, analytics, and digital tools to diagnose performance issues, track system health, and support operational decision-making
Develop and maintain well and system performance models to support forecasting, optimization, and scenario analysis
Own short-term production forecasts and performance variance analysis, including documentation of downtime and underperformance using structured root cause analysis
Identify, prioritize, and execute short- and medium-term production enhancement and reliability improvement opportunities across wells and surface systems
Lead the planning, execution support, and post-job evaluation of geothermal well interventions, workovers, and remedial operations
Identify, assess, and manage well and system risks, including integrity, scaling, corrosion, and other risks
Define surveillance programs, and mitigation strategies to ensure long-term well and asset integrity
Drive learnings from operating experience back into well design, completion strategy, and field development planning
Lead, mentor, and develop Production Engineers with clear priorities and technical standards
Build a culture of safety, ownership, technical rigor, and continuous improvement
Serve as the primary production engineering interface with Field Ops, Reservoir, D&C, Facilities, Projects, and Development teams
Translate complex subsurface/production topics into actionable guidance and provide operability constraints/forecast inputs for planning
Qualification
Required
B.S. in Engineering (Petroleum, Mechanical, Chemical, or a related discipline)
10+ years in production engineering/operations/subsurface roles with ownership of well and system performance; waterflood and injection well operating experience required
Strong understanding of well performance, production/injection systems, and surface facilities
Experience building/leading surveillance, forecasting, optimization, and intervention planning workflows
Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills
Proficiency with production engineering and modeling tools (e.g., nodal/system modeling, data visualization)
Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Preferred
People leadership experience
Workover/intervention planning and execution experience
Experience in a high-growth, scaling operational environment
Track record building scalable standards, processes, and digital workflows
Company
Fervo Energy
Fervo Energy develops and operates clean energy technology to generate carbon-free energy from geothermal systems.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.45BKey Investors
B CapitalBreakthrough Energy VenturesMercuria
2025-12-10Series E· $462M
2025-06-11Series Unknown· $100M
2025-06-11Debt Financing· $105.6M
Leadership Team
Tim Latimer
Chief Executive Officer
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Jack Norbeck
Co-Founder and CTO
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