Operations Training Manager

Job Type: Full-time

The Operations Training Manager builds and leads Fervo’s training function for field and facility operations. This role owns the design, delivery, and continuous improvement of technical, safety, and competency-based training programs for wellsite operators, technicians, and operations staff, and scales that training capacity to support new capital projects as Fervo brings additional geothermal facilities online. The Manager takes direct ownership of the Fervo training matrix — the equipment training, SOPs, job aids, SMPs, procedures & processes, and qualification-card tracking system already established for the Operations team — and is responsible for maturing it and replicating it as the standard training framework for every future Fervo site.

The Manager will eventually lead a small team of training coordinators and partners closely with Operations, HSE, and Engineering leadership to ensure every person working at a Fervo site has the skills, certifications, and judgment to work safely in a complex industrial environment.

• Design and continuously improve a structured curriculum for field operations roles (wellsite operators, technicians, power plant operations staff) covering onboarding, technical skills, equipment-specific procedures, and competency progression.
• Partner with Operations leadership and subject matter experts to translate standard operating procedures (SOPs), engineering specifications, and lessons learned into effective training content and job aids.
• Establish learning and training objectives tied to business operations, safety performance, and individual development goals.

• Deliver and oversee hands-on, classroom, and e-learning training for wellsite, drilling-adjacent, and power plant operations personnel.
• Ensure training reflects the mechanical, electrical, and process systems unique to Fervo’s geothermal wellsite and surface facility operations.
• Coordinate emergency response drills and exercises in partnership with HSE.

• Own the training and competency assurance program that ensures personnel meet OSHA, DOT, and other applicable regulatory and permit requirements before working independently.
• Maintain training records, certifications, and audit-ready documentation within Fervo’s learning management system (LMS).
• Partner with HSE to build and deliver HSE-focused training (LOTO, confined space, Work Authorization, PPE, etc.) appropriate to geothermal field operations.

• Scale training capacity to support workforce ramp-up for new capital projects — building training plans, schedules, and onboarding pipelines ahead of new facility startup and commissioning.
• Coordinate with construction, commissioning, and project leadership to ensure operations personnel are trained and certified in time for handover and startup.
• Stand up site-specific training infrastructure (training rooms, simulators, documentation) at new locations as needed.
• Replicate the Cape Station training matrix and qualification-card framework at each new, adapting equipment- and procedure-specific content while preserving a consistent tracking structure across the fleet.

• Own and maintain the Fervo combined training matrix — equipment training (OJT, vendor-led, commissioning/engineer-led, and classroom instruction), SOPs, job aids, SMPs, and procedures & processes — keeping it current as new equipment and systems are added.
• Administer the Operations qualification card (Qual Card) tracker, including individual training completion records, retraining/recertification schedules, and audit-ready status reporting by person and by equipment or system.
• Partner with Production Engineering, Maintenance, and Commissioning to close open training-status gaps identified in the matrix, assigning responsible parties and target completion dates.
• Evolve the matrix and qualification-card model into the standardized template Fervo reuses at every future site.

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