Energy Associate

Fervo Energy Co.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Fervo Energy Co. in Houston, TX is seeking an Energy Associate to support scale-up by leading the development of processes and infrastructure for the powerplant engineering team.

You will work with engineers, strategists, and product-minded colleagues to understand pain points and professionalize the organization. This fast-paced strategy and operations role blends strategy, engineering, and product management with ownership from day one, reporting to the Engineering Manager.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in economics, finance, energy policy, or STEM.
• 2-4+ years of relevant professional experience in management consulting, energy development, power markets, project finance, or 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.

Responsibilities

• Decision Quality: help make high quality data-driven decisions under ambiguity.
• Executive Communication: prepare clear, concise updates for leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Financial Modeling: build and maintain financial models to support design decision-making with Strategy and Engineering teams.
• Strategy & Operations Support: coordinate with engineering leadership to establish frameworks and best practices.
• Process Improvement: identify knowledge gaps and develop tools, checklists, and references to continuously improve design and execution processes.

Skills

Data analysis

Strategic thinking

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in economics, finance, energy policy, or STEM

Job description

The Energy Associate directly supports scale up by leading the development of processes and infrastructure for the powerplant engineering team.

Fervo’s Mission is to use innovation in geoscience to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy. Toaccomplishthat 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$2billionfrom 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.

Description

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:helpmakehigh qualitydata-drivendecisions under ambiguity,including serving as a sounding board and thought partner on highimpactopportunities
• ExecutiveCommunication:prepareclear, concise updatesthat translate technical and operational information for leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Financial Modeling:build andmaintainfinancialmodels thatsupportengineering designdecision-making, in coordination with Strategy andengineering teams
• Strategy & Operations Support: coordinate with engineering leadership to establish frameworks and best practices for use across the organization.
• Process Improvement:identifyknowledge gaps and developtools, checklists, and references tocontinuously improve design and execution processes

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degreerequired; economics, finance, energy policy, or STEM preferred.
• 2-4+ years of relevant professional experience inmanagement consulting,energy development, power markets, projectfinance,ora relatedfield.
• Strong analytical rigor, with comfort building andmaintainingmodels, trackers, andprocesses.
• Comfortworking withlarge datasets.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to summarizetechnicalmaterialaccurately for others

Location

Fervo Energy is headquartered in Houston, TX, with growing offices in Golden, CO; Reno, NV; Oakland, CA; and Salt Lake City, UT. Houston if the preferred location for this role, followed by Reno or Oakland.

Fervo Energy commercializes technology to own, develop, and operate geothermal assets as the dispatchable foundation to a 100% clean energy future. As a 24/7, reliable clean energy resource, geothermal energy has a major role to play in the future electric grid and Fervo Energy’s key innovations bring a full suite of modern technology to make geothermal cost competitive. Fervo’s innovations include technologies such as advanced computational models, horizontal drilling, and distributed fiber optic sensing that we have developed with partners including Schlumberger, ARPA-E, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Fervo is supported through Cyclotron Road, the Department of Energy, Stanford University, and Breakthrough Energy Ventures.

Fervo Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, gender, religion, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sex, genetic information, sexual orientation, military and veteran status or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. It also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.