Senior Production Engineer - Geothermal ESP & Surveillance

Fervo Energy Company; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Fervo Energy is seeking a senior Production Engineer to own the daily performance heartbeat of our Cape Station wells and ESP-driven water supply. You will lead surveillance, optimization, and short-term forecasting across producers, injectors, and ESP systems in a first-of-kind geothermal setting.

The role requires deep experience in ESP operations, production forecasting, and end‑to‑end problem solving, with collaboration across Field Operations, Plant Management, and Digital Platform teams.

Qualifications

• Required: 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.
• Required: 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 water supply wells; develop and track KPI and system performance against operating envelopes.
• Monitor ESP systems on water supply wells; identify degradation early and escalate for intervention before failure.
• Run exception-based daily well review: identify off-trend wells, quantify variance from plan, and lead structured root cause analysis on anomalies and downtime events.
• Serve as the primary technical interface with Field Operations for day-to-day production questions, operating decisions, and well-level troubleshooting.
• Maintain surveillance procedures, data quality standards, and well review cadence; build the documentation others will execute against as the team grows.
• Support SCADA tag taxonomy, cloud historian data quality, and real-time monitoring integrity in partnership with the Digital Platform PE and IT.
• Maximize well deliverability and facility capacity utilization; identify operating envelope adjustments, debottlenecking opportunities, and injection rate optimizations across producing and injection system.
• Own the rolling 90-day production and injection forecast: integrate downtime history, well‑level performance trends, and planned operations to maintain a reliable short-term outlook.
• Track and classify downtime events by cause, duration, and affected system; quantify production variance against plan and maintain structured downtime records for reporting and RCA.
• Develop and maintain well performance models to support optimization decisions and scenario analysis.
• Run well performance tracking and near-term uplift analysis to spot underperforming wells and prioritize optimization actions.
• Define KPI definitions, anomaly detection thresholds, and dashboard requirements; ensure the platform reflects real operating priorities, not just available data.
• Contribute production engineering inputs to feed-forward reviews that drive GeoBlock cost and cycle improvements.
• Provide surveillance and performance data inputs to well intervention candidate identification and workover scoping reviews.
• Support state regulatory compliance and monthly production reporting with accurate, well-level production and injection records.
• Back up the Digital Platform PE on surveillance workflows and platform operations during absence or redeployment.

Skills

Production surveillance

ESP management

Well optimization

Forecasting

Data analysis

SCADA systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Petroleum Engineering

Tools

Power BI

Spotfire

SCADA systems

Job description

Fervo Energy is seeking a senior Production Engineer to own the daily performance heartbeat of our Cape Station wells and ESP-driven water supply. You will lead surveillance, optimization, and short-term forecasting across producers, injectors, and ESP systems in a first-of-kind geothermal setting.

The role requires deep experience in ESP operations, production forecasting, and end‑to‑end problem solving, with collaboration across Field Operations, Plant Management, and Digital Platform teams.