Fervo’s Mission is to use innovation in geoscience to accelerate the world’s 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 world’s 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 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.  

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

• 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,  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.