Chief of Staff, Operations

Fervo Energy (NASDAQ: FRVO) is a modern power company developing next-generation geothermal resources to meet the growing demand for affordable, reliable, 24/7 carbon-free energy. Our mission is to transform geothermal into America’s most dependable and affordable source of clean, around-the-clock power. By combining innovations in horizontal drilling, fiber-optic sensing, and advanced reservoir engineering, Fervo has developed a repeatable approach to building utility-scale enhanced geothermal systems.

Our flagship Cape Station development in Utah is planned to deliver 500 MW of firm, carbon-free power, and we are advancing a development pipeline of more than 50 GW. Join us and work alongside world-class engineers, geoscientists, operators, project builders, and business leaders working to make geothermal a cornerstone of a more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy future.

The Chief of Staff to the VP of Operations will serve as a direct extension of the VP across Fervo’s Operations organization — spanning Operations Engineering, O&M, Production Engineering, and Commissioning — with accountability for keeping the full portfolio aligned, moving, and decision-ready. You will go where the leader cannot, represent the leader in forums the leader cannot attend, drive work streams requiring senior coverage, and engage with full authority and accountability to make decisions on the leader’s behalf.

This role reports directly to the VP of Operations.

Fervo is scaling an industry-defining geothermal program from Cape Station Phase I through a fleet of repeat-build plants, and the Chief of Staff to the VP of Operations owns the operational rhythm that enables a single leader to manage a program that would otherwise require three. You will track AFEs and forecast spend, reconcile change orders, prepare executive-grade deliverables, run cross-functional meetings, close action items, and stand in for the leader across engineering, commissioning, production engineering, and O&M coordination.

You operate by reasoning from first principles, questioning every inherited requirement, eliminating what does not add value, simplifying what remains, accelerating where ownership permits, and building every output for repeatability across the next plant.

Strategic Partnership & Extension of Leadership

Serve as a direct extension of the VP of Operations, representing the leader in forums they cannot attend and driving work streams that require senior coverage

Engage with full authority and accountability to make decisions on the leader’s behalf, keeping the full portfolio aligned, moving, and decision-ready

Anticipate slipping work streams and overdue deliverables before being asked, surfacing causes and solutions proactively

Cross-Functional Coordination

Interface daily with Engineering, Commissioning, Production Engineering, O&M, HSSE, Supply Chain, and Finance to keep work streams aligned and unblocked

Coordinate with external partners — OEMs, owner’s engineers, and vendor field service personnel — on behalf of Fervo leadership

Run cross-functional meetings: set agendas, drive decisions, capture action items, and follow them through to closure

Translate between disciplines so that engineering, operations, finance, and executives are working from the same picture

Own ongoing tracking of Cap Ex and OpEx budgets, AFEs, and actuals across owned work streams; build and maintain monthly spend forecasts and variance analyses

Develop and refine cost models for Cape Station and follow-on plants — Cap Ex, OpEx, and lifecycle — in support of investment-grade forecasting and project decision-making

Manage vendor purchase orders, invoices, and accruals against scope and progress; flag…