Senior Director, Supply Chain

Fervo Energy Co.; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Fervo Energy is seeking a Senior Director of Supply Chain to own the strategy and organization end-to-end, building a high-performance team across planning, procurement, logistics, and supplier management to support rapid GeoBlock deployment.

The role collaborates with Engineering, Construction, and Operations to standardize processes, drive cost reduction, and ensure supply chain as a core competitive advantage in a hardware-driven, scale-up environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, engineering, business, or science.
• 7+ years of experience in manufacturing, engineering, or supply chain management.
• 3+ years of experience in managing teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a high-performing team of dedicated supply chain professionals and maintain a high-performance culture.
• Develop a deep understanding of the strategic direction of the business to inform overall supply chain strategy, KPIs, and goals to guide the organization in the right direction as the business scales.
• Manage planning, procurement, expediting, logistics, category management, administration, and compliance across subsurface, power facilities, and operational disciplines.
• Negotiate and maintain long-term strategic supplier alliances, strengthening Fervo's cost resilience, risk, and supply chain continuity.
• Implement systems required as the function scales across inventory planning, management, and logistics.
• Partner with GeoBlock Engineering, Construction, and Operations from the start of design, helping influence standardization, drive cost reduction, and decrease cycle time and surfacing supply chain constraints or considerations before they become bottlenecks.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in supply chain, engineering, business, or science

Job description

TheSenior Director of Supply Chainwill own the supply chain strategy and organization end-to-end.

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

Senior Director of Supply Chainwill own the supply chain strategy and organization end-to-end. They will manage a complex multi-category strategy, build and maintain supplier relationships, and enable schedule discipline, team development, and the systems and processes required to make the function a highly effective operational asset. This person will build the supply chain organization that matches our rapidly scaling deployment strategy.

This role coordinates incredibly closely with Engineering, Construction, and Operations, and the right leader will have a deep understanding of those disciplines, a track record of leading high-performance teams in complex operating environments, and a dedication to cross functional collaboration and continuous improvement. The ideal candidate has experience building supply chains for complex hardware-driven organizations who view supply chain as a core competitive operational advantage rather than an administrative function.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a high-performing team of dedicated supply chain professionals and maintain a high-performance culture
• Develop a deep understanding of the strategic direction of the business to inform overall supply chain strategy, KPIs, and goals to guide the organization in the right direction as the business scales
• Manage planning, procurement, expediting, logistics, category management, administration, and compliance across subsurface, power facilities, and operational disciplines
• Negotiate and maintain long-term strategic supplier alliances, strengthening Fervo's cost resilience, risk, and supply chain continuity
• Implement systems required as the function scales across inventory planning, management, and logistics
• Partner with GeoBlock Engineering, Construction, and Operations from the start of design, helping influence standardization, drive cost reduction, and decrease cycle time and surfacing supply chain constraints or considerations before they become bottlenecks

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, engineering, business, or science
• 7+ years of experience in manufacturing, engineering, or supply chain management
• 3+ years of experience in managing teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Track record of high performance
• Excellent written and verbal presentation and communication skills
• Expert level knowledge in one or more commodities within the team’s scope
• Exposure to manufacturing-mode or repeatable project delivery models
• Demonstrated success building and maintaining direct supplier relationships
• Track record of transformational leadership and questioning the status quo

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 and trace problems back to physics and economics
• 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 position will be eligible for some hybrid work flexibility, but regular in-office presence at our Houston office will be required.

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.