Senior Geothermal Drilling Engineer | Field & Design Lead

Stanford Climate Ventures; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Fervo is seeking a Senior Drilling Engineer to design and execute advanced geothermal drilling in a dynamic environment. You will handle well planning, design, engineering, and daily operations support while coordinating with partners and suppliers to improve drilling performance.

The role requires strong drilling engineering background, deep experience, and the ability to adapt standard oil and gas playbooks for geothermal applications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering required.
• 10+ years drilling engineering/operations experience; 5+ with US onshore operator.
• Proficient in well design fundamentals and software.

Responsibilities

• Detailed well planning including design, engineering, and drilling procedure.
• Provide drilling engineering support for all well operations within a cross-functional operations team and coordinate recovery plans during NPT events.
• Conduct risk assessments for all operations and prepare mitigation plans to ensure safe and effective delivery.
• Prepare detailed time and cost estimates and ownership of tracking plan vs actual.
• Coordinate and manage drilling contractors supporting planning and execution activities, including NPT resolution and technical review.
• Budgeting, building AFEs, and managing cost throughout operations.
• Tracking performance with micro-KPIs and driving continuous improvement initiatives in well cycle time and cost.
• Post well closeout and reporting including lessons learned and best practices to implement in future wells.

Skills

Drilling engineering

Operations experience

Risk assessment

Cost estimation

Planning complex drilling

Horizontal drilling

Supply chain management

Communication skills

Field experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

Well design software

Job description

Fervo is seeking a Senior Drilling Engineer to design and execute advanced geothermal drilling in a dynamic environment. You will handle well planning, design, engineering, and daily operations support while coordinating with partners and suppliers to improve drilling performance.

The role requires strong drilling engineering background, deep experience, and the ability to adapt standard oil and gas playbooks for geothermal applications.