Expeditor

Fervo Energy Co.; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Fervo Energy Co. is seeking an Expeditor to own the delivery schedule for materials, components, and equipment across active projects.

This role builds and maintains the master delivery timeline, tracks critical-path packages from award through fabrication and shipment, and surfaces risk before it threatens milestones. The Expeditor collaborates with Engineering, Construction, Logistics, and Field Operations to align purchase orders with the integrated project schedule and prioritize packages

Qualifications

• 3+ years of expediting, procurement, scheduling, or supply chain project management.
• Working knowledge of project scheduling tools (Primavera P6, MS Project, or similar) and ERP/procurement platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own and reissue the consolidated procurement and delivery schedule across active packages.
• Track open purchase orders against the master schedule and flag deviations from committed delivery dates early.
• Run recurring check-ins with vendors and freight carriers to validate schedule commitments and drive corrective action.
• Track dependencies between vendor drawings, engineering approvals, fabrication milestones, and site readiness, and resolve conflicts before they cascade downstream.
• Escalate delivery and schedule risk to the Procurement Manager and project stakeholders with a recommended path forward.
• Support field teams during active drilling campaigns, prioritizing material needs by operational urgency and non-productive-time risk.
• Maintain supplier performance reporting — on-time, delivery, lead times, filling rates — to inform future award and scheduling decisions.
• Keep order status, delivery milestones, and supplier correspondence current in Fervo’s ERP and procurement systems.

Skills

Expediting

Procurement

Scheduling

Supply chain

Education

Bachelor’s degree in supply chain or related field

Tools

Primavera P6

MS Project

ERP systems

Job description

TheExpeditorowns the delivery schedule for the materials, components, and equipment that keep Fervo’s projects moving.

Fervo Energy is applying first-principles engineering and a manufacturing mindset to geothermal power, an industry that has operated the same way for decades. Rather than deploying one-off energy projects, we are building standardized, repeatable GeoBlocks – units of geothermal power generation – designed to get cheaper, faster, and more reliable with every iteration.

At Fervo, Supply Chain is a highly strategic function that acts as a core driver of our GeoBlock manufacturing process.

Description

TheExpeditorowns the delivery schedule for the materials, components, and equipment that keep Fervo’s projects moving. They build and maintain the master delivery timeline, track critical packages from award through fabrication and shipment, and surface risk before it threatens a drilling program or project milestone. the planning, coordination, and on-time delivery of materials, components, and equipment across Fervo’s active project portfolio. This mid-level role owns the schedule-side view of procurement — building and maintaining the master delivery timeline, tracking critical-path packages from award through fabrication and shipment, and surfacing risks to leadership before they threaten a drilling program or project milestone.

This role works closely with Engineering, Construction, Logistics, and Field Operations. The right person keeps a large portfolio of purchase orders and vendor commitments aligned to the integrated project schedule and has the judgment to know which packages actually matter to cycle time and well cost.: the Expeditor works across procurement, engineering, logistics, and field operations to keep a portfolio of purchase orders and vendor commitments aligned to an integrated project schedule. Success requires strong schedule ownership, structured status reporting, and the judgment to prioritize the packages that matter most to overall project timelines and well costs.

Responsibilities

• Own and reissue the consolidated procurement and delivery schedule across active packages
• Track open purchase orders against the master schedule and flag deviations from committed delivery dates early
• Run recurring check-ins with vendors and freight carriers to validate schedule commitments and drive corrective action
• Track dependencies between vendor drawings, engineering approvals, fabrication milestones, and site readiness, and resolve conflicts before they cascade downstream
• Escalate delivery and schedule risk to the Procurement Manager and project stakeholders with a recommended path forward
• Support field teams during active drilling campaigns, prioritizing material needs by operational urgency and non-productive-time risk
• Maintain supplier performance reporting — on-time, delivery, lead times, filling rates — to inform future award and scheduling decisions
• Keep order status, delivery milestones, and supplier correspondence current in Fervo’s ERP and procurement systems

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, engineering, or a related field; equivalent oilfield or energy supply chain experience considered
• 3+ years of experience in expediting, procurement, scheduling, or supply chain project management
• Working knowledge of project scheduling tools (Primavera P6, MS Project, or similar) and ERP/procurement platforms

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in oilfield services, upstream / downstream oil and gas, geothermal, or heavy industrial supply chains
• Familiarity with Incoterms, freight logistics, and HSE requirements for material handling
• Exposure to manufacturing-mode or repeatable project delivery models

Who Thrives at Fervo

We screen for attributes as much as experience. The people who do best here share a few things in common:

• First-principles thinkers who question industry norms.
• Extreme ownership mindset
• Bias for speed and iteration
• Simplifiers who cut complexity
• Collaborators who see supply chain and the business as inseparable
• Mission-driven

Location

Fervo Energy is headquartered in Houston, TX. This is a hybrid role based in Houston, with travel to project sitesup to 20%.

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.