Energy Associate

The Energy Associate directly supports scale up by leading the development of processes and infrastructure for the powerplant engineering team.

Fervo’s Mission is to use innovation in geoscience to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy. Toaccomplishthat goal, Fervo has developed groundbreaking technology solutions that have advanced the state-of-the-art of geothermal energy decades ahead of schedule, including the world’s most successful commercial enhanced geothermal system completed in 2023. Fervo has raised over $2billionfrom leading investors and has secured a multi-billion-dollar project pipeline to meet the world’s growing need for 24/7 carbon free energy.

Join us and work alongside world-class engineers, researchers, investors, and developers in making geothermal a key pillar of our climate-friendly energy future.

To deliver at the scale required to transform the electricity make-up of the US, Fervo is rapidly deploying dozens of powerplants a year. The Energy Associate directly supports scale up by leading the development of processes and infrastructure for the powerplant engineering team. The main responsibilities of this role would be working directly with the engineering teams to understand pain points, work to further professionalize the organization, improve decision quality, and support executive and cross department communication.

This is a fast-paced strategy and operations role that blends strategy, engineering, and product management into one, with significant ownership from day one. This role reports to the Engineering Manager on the powerplant engineering team.

• Decision Quality
  :helpmakehigh quality data-driven decisions under ambiguity,including serving as a sounding board and thought partner on highimpactopportunities
• Executive Communication:prepare clear, concise updates that translate technical and operational information for leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Financial Modeling:build andmaintainfinancialmodels thatsupportengineering design decision-making, in coordination with Strategy and engineering teams
• Strategy & Operations Support: coordinate with engineering leadership to establish frameworks and best practices for use across the organization.
• Process Improvement:identify knowledge gaps and develop tools, checklists, and references to continuously improve design and execution processes

• Bachelor’s degree required; economics, finance, energy policy, or STEM preferred.
• 2-4+ years of relevant professional experience in management consulting,energy development, power markets, project finance,ora related field.
• Strong analytical rigor, with comfort building andmaintainingmodels, trackers, and processes.
• Comfort working withlarge datasets.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to summarizetechnicalmaterialaccurately for others

Fervo Energy is headquartered in Houston, TX, with growing offices in Golden, CO;
Reno, NV;
Oakland, CA; and Salt Lake City, UT. Houston if the preferred location for this role, followed by Reno or Oakland.

Fervo Energy commercializes technology to own, develop, and operate geothermal assets as the dispatchable foundation to a 100% clean energy future. As a 24/7, reliable clean energy resource, geothermal energy has a major role to play in the future electric grid and Fervo Energy’s key innovations bring a full suite of modern technology to make geothermal cost competitive. Fervo’s innovations include technologies such as advanced computational models, horizontal drilling, and distributed fiber optic sensing that we have developed with partners including Schlumberger, ARPA-E, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.

Fervo is supported through Cyclotron Road, the Department of Energy, Stanford University, and Breakthrough Energy Ventures.

Fervo Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, gender, religion, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sex, genetic information, sexual orientation, military and veteran status or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. It also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.