Energy Associate, Geoblock

Fervos Mission is to use innovation in geoscience to accelerate the worlds transition to sustainable energy. To accomplish that goal Fervo has developed groundbreaking technology solutions that have advanced the state-of-the-art of geothermal energy decades ahead of schedule including the worlds most successful commercial enhanced geothermal system completed in 2023. Fervo has raised over $2 billion from leading investors and has secured a multi-billion-dollar project pipeline to meet the worlds 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.

Responsibilities

• Decision Quality: help make high quality data-driven decisions under ambiguity including serving as a sounding board and thought partner on high impact opportunities
• Executive Communication: prepare clear concise updates that translate technical and operational information for leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Financial Modeling: build and maintain financial models that support engineering design decision-making in coordination with Strategy and engineering teams
• Strategy and 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

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelors 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 or a related field.
• Strong analytical rigor with comfort building and maintaining models trackers and processes
• Comfort working with large datasets.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills with the ability to summarize technical material accurately for others

Location

Fervo Energy is headquartered in Houston TX with growing offices in Golden CO Reno NV and Oakland CA and Salt Lake City UT. This position will be eligible for some hybrid work flexibility but regular in-office presence at the Houston office is preferred.