Senior Geothermal Production Surveillance Engineer

B Capital; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Fervo Energy in Houston, TX is seeking a senior Production Engineer to own the daily performance heartbeat of our Cape Station wells and production system. You will lead surveillance, ESP management, and short-term forecasting across producers, injectors, and ESP-driven water-supply wells.

Reporting to the Production Engineering Manager, you will shape our digital surveillance platform, build a best-in-class monitoring function, and coordinate with Field Operations and Plant Management in a

Qualifications

• B.S. in Petroleum Engineering or related discipline.
• 7-12 years of production engineering or operations experience with ownership of well and system surveillance in a live operating environment.
• Demonstrated expertise in production and injection well performance monitoring, anomaly detection, and structured root cause analysis.
• ESP operating experience; monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance analysis of electric submersible pump systems in a production or water supply/injection context.
• Experience building or running production forecasting workflows, including downtime tracking, variance analysis, and short-term outlooks.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; able to work from data to diagnosis to action with minimal supervision.
• Proficiency with production data platforms, data visualization tools (Power BI, Spotfire, or equivalent), SCADA and historian systems.
• Effective communicator with Field Operations, Plant Management, and cross-functional engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day surveillance of Cape Station wells: producers, injectors, and ESP-driven wells; develop KPI and system performance.
• Monitor ESP systems on water supply wells; identify degradation early and accelerate interventions.
• Run exception-based daily well reviews; quantify variance from plan and lead root cause analyses.
• Serve as the primary technical interface with Field Operations for day-to-day production questions and troubleshooting.
• Maintain surveillance procedures, data quality standards, and well review cadence; document for scale.
• Support SCADA tag taxonomy, cloud historian data quality, and real-time monitoring integrity with Digital Platform PE and IT.
• Maximize well deliverability and facility capacity; identify operating envelope adjustments and injection-rate optimizations.
• Own rolling 90-day production and injection forecast and track downtime events and variance.
• Develop and maintain well performance models; run near-term uplift analyses.
• Provide inputs to surveillance workflows and platform operations during absence; support regulatory reporting.

Skills

Production surveillance

ESP management

Forecasting & planning

Data analysis

SCADA & historian systems

Power BI / data viz

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Education

B.S. in Petroleum Engineering

Tools

SCADA

Industrial data historians

Power BI

Spotfire

Job description

Fervo Energy in Houston, TX is seeking a senior Production Engineer to own the daily performance heartbeat of our Cape Station wells and production system. You will lead surveillance, ESP management, and short-term forecasting across producers, injectors, and ESP-driven water-supply wells.

Reporting to the Production Engineering Manager, you will shape our digital surveillance platform, build a best-in-class monitoring function, and coordinate with Field Operations and Plant Management in a