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A leading company in geothermal energy seeks a Senior Geologist to spearhead wellfield design and execution efforts. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in shaping development strategies and optimizing reservoir performance while collaborating across interdisciplinary teams. This role offers a strong compensation package, including bonuses and benefits, prompting growth opportunities in a dynamic field.
The Senior Geologist will support wellfield design, planning, and execution efforts to achieve Fervo Energy’s geothermal energy development goals. This position will play a key role in shaping the development strategy, evaluating investment opportunities, and optimizing reservoir performance across Fervo’s growing project portfolio. Responsibilities will include working with various geological, geochemical, and geophysical data sets to test and build conceptual and three-dimensional geologic models of geothermal reservoirs, planning and executing large-scale geothermal development drilling and completion campaigns, overseeing drilling and completion operations, and identifying near-field development and acquisition opportunities. Successful candidates will be able to engage in daily cross-functional communication across execution and technology teams while making real-time operations decisions.
Responsibilities
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Location
Fervo Energy is headquartered in Houston, TX with growing offices in Oakland, CA, Golden, CO, Reno, NV, and Salt Lake City, UT. This position will be eligible for some hybrid work flexibility, but regular in-office presence at either Golden or Reno offices will be required. Travel is required for this position.
Compensation & Benefits
Fervo provides a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, short-term and long-term disability, flexible paid time off, and paid parental leave. Additionally, Fervo offers an incentive stock options program, a bonus incentive program, and a 401(k) plan with an employer match.
Fervo Energy is providing the compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and geographic location. Expected Salary: $151,000-$190,000 dependent on location.
Fervo Energy reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.