Senior Production Engineer - Geothermal Surveillance

Fervo Energy; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Fervo Energy, based in Houston, TX, is hiring a senior Production Engineer to own daily performance of its Cape Station wells and ESP-driven water supply systems. You will drive surveillance, optimization, and short-term forecasting across producers, injectors, and ESP systems, collaborating with Field Operations and Plant Management.

The role requires deep ESP experience, data analytics, and the ability to build a scalable surveillance platform from the ground up in a first-of-kind geothermal

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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day surveillance of Cape Station wells; develop KPI and system performance against envelopes.
• Monitor ESP systems; identify degradation early and elevate for intervention.
• Run daily well reviews; identify off-trend wells and lead root cause analysis on anomalies and downtime events.
• Serve as 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 standards for scale.
• Support SCADA tag taxonomy, cloud historian data quality, and real-time monitoring accuracy with Digital Platform PE and IT.
• Maximize well deliverability and facility capacity; identify envelope adjustments and injection rate optimizations.
• Own rolling 90-day production and injection forecast; integrate downtime history and performance trends.
• Track downtime events by cause and duration; quantify variance and maintain downtime records.
• Develop and maintain well performance models to support optimization decisions and scenario analysis.
• Run well performance tracking and uplift analysis to spot underperforming wells.

Skills

ESP operating experience

Production forecasting

Data visualization

SCADA & historian systems

Root cause analysis

Cross-functional communication

Analytical problem solving

Power BI

Field Operations collaboration

Downtime tracking

Education

B.S. in Petroleum Engineering

Tools

SCADA

Spotfire

Industrial data historians

Job description

Fervo Energy, based in Houston, TX, is hiring a senior Production Engineer to own daily performance of its Cape Station wells and ESP-driven water supply systems. You will drive surveillance, optimization, and short-term forecasting across producers, injectors, and ESP systems, collaborating with Field Operations and Plant Management.

The role requires deep ESP experience, data analytics, and the ability to build a scalable surveillance platform from the ground up in a first-of-kind geothermal