Water Lead

Description

Fervo is building the world's most cost-effective, repeatable geothermal power plants. Joining Fervo means solving frontier engineering problems with immediate real-world impact, accelerating the clean energy transition and reinventing the way infrastructure is built. We're doing for geothermal what SpaceX did for rockets and the shale revolution did for oil and gas.

We are seeking people who want to reinvent the way infrastructure is built and who want to have extreme ownership over their domain, knowing that each decision they make impacts the speed and scale of Fervo's mission.

As we scale from Cape Station to a gigawatt-scale portfolio, water supply is on the critical path. Every Geo Block we drill needs a reliable, cost-optimized water supply. Every new field brings a different set of water rights, infrastructure, and logistics. We are building the team and the systems to handle that now, and this role leads it.

The Water Lead is the single accountable owner of Fervo's water program across all assets. Reporting to the Director of Drilling and Completions, this role is responsible for water sourcing strategy, supply forecasting, mass balance, infrastructure planning, vendor management, and budget ownership for all water-related activities. The Water Lead directly supervises field water operations across Fervo's full asset portfolio, and coordinates across Drilling, Completions, Resource, Production, Construction, and Facilities to make sure water supply never limits operations.

This is a builder role. The systems and infrastructure Fervo needs to run water at gigawatt scale are still being built. The right person has done this before in a high-volume E&P environment, knows how to move fast without cutting corners, and can influence cross-functional teams that don't formally report to them.

• Develop and maintain Fervo's enterprise water sourcing strategy across all assets, covering consumptive and non-consumptive water needs, recycled water optimization, and long-term supply security.
• Own water demand forecasting, integrating drilling schedules, completions programs, and operational projections to ensure supply commitments are met without interruption.
• Build and maintain the water mass balance model across all active fields, tracking volumes from source to use to disposition and identifying gaps or inefficiencies before they impact operations.
• Lead water rights evaluation and acquisition strategy in partnership with the legal and resource teams, ensuring Fervo has the appropriate permits, rights, and agreements to support each asset's operating horizon.
• Evaluate and advance water recycling programs across all assets as a priority initiative, reducing water consumption and improving overall water use efficiency across all operations.

• Own the water well portfolio for all Fervo assets from initial siting and permitting through the full well lifecycle: SOR, BOD, drilling, completions, facilities hookup, and operations.
• Coordinate cross-functional delivery of water well programs with cross-functional leads, ensuring wells are online and capable ahead of operational demand.
• Own and manage the water budget across all asset areas, including AFE generation, cost tracking, NPT reporting, and forecast-to-actual variance for all water-related capital spend.
• Develop and maintain multi-year infrastructure plans for water impoundments, storage tanks, transfer lines, and disposal systems, ensuring capacity is installed ahead of peak demand.
• Provide technical input to water infrastructure design, collaborating with engineering and facilities teams to ensure systems are right-sized, cost-efficient, and operationally maintainable.

• Directly supervise field water operations personnel across Fervo's full asset portfolio, providing technical direction, performance management, and day-to-day operational support.
• Own relationships with all water transfer vendors, including contract management, performance monitoring, and driving cost optimization through bidding, scope standardization, and long-term agreements.
• Establish and maintain operational standards for water transfer, metering, sampling, reporting, and field HSE compliance across all Fervo water operations.
• Develop and manage monitoring and reporting systems for water volumes, water quality, system integrity, and regulatory compliance across all assets.

• Serve as the primary water liaison across D&C functional teams, actively managing working relationships with Resource, Drilling, Completions, Production, Construction, and Facilities teams to resolve constraints and ensure integrated execution.
• Represent water program status, risks, and capital requirements in internal leadership forums and reporting structures.
• Drive data and reporting discipline for water program performance, building dashboards and reporting…