Sourcing Manager, Electrical

Fervo Energy Co.; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Fervo Energy Co. in Houston is seeking a Sourcing Manager, Electrical to own category strategy and execution for transformers, breakers, switchgear, motors, drives, and related electrical systems.

This embedded role partners with Engineering to shape specs, identify alternatives, and negotiate agreements that balance cost and schedule risk. The role emphasizes early collaboration with engineering, supplier diversification, and post-award supplier performance management, with a hybrid

Qualifications

• 2+ years in sourcing, procurement, or category management (electrical equipment).
• 5+ years in the workforce with experience designing, procuring, or maintaining electrical equipment.
• Experience negotiating equipment or services contracts with meaningful commercial value.
• Comfortable reading and engaging with electrical engineering specifications.
• Track record of building supplier options where a category relied on a single vendor.

Responsibilities

• Build and own a documented sourcing strategy for electrical equipment categories, including transformers, breakers, switchgear, motors, drives, etc.
• Identify and qualify alternate suppliers to reduce single-source dependency and strengthen negotiating leverage
• Track tariff exposure and enforce domestic content requirements, and incorporate strategic principles into sourcing decisions
• Engage Engineering early on electrical equipment specifications; help identify where specs drive unnecessary cost
• Bring supplier and market insight into design reviews before requirements are finalized
• Lead commercial negotiations for electrical equipment purchases and services, from RFQ through contract execution
• Structure contracts and delivery terms that protect schedule and give Fervo visibility into supplier performance
• Manage supplier relationships and performance across the electrical equipment category post-award

Skills

Sourcing experience

Electrical equipment knowledge

Contract negotiations

Supplier relationships

Reading specifications

Education

Electrical engineering degree

Job description

he Sourcing Manager, Electrical owns category strategy and execution for Fervo’s electrical equipment scope — transformers, breakers, switchgear, motors, drives, and balance-of-plant electrical systems.

Fervo Energy is applying first-principles engineering and a manufacturing mindset to geothermal power — an industry that has operated the same way for decades. We are not building one-off power plants. We are building a product: GeoBlock, a standardized, repeatable geothermal generation unit designed to get cheaper, faster, and more reliable with every iteration.

Decsription

Supply Chain is not a support function here. Our job is to be embedded with Engineering early — shaping electrical equipment specs and supplier strategy before decisions are locked in, not sourcing against a finished design.

Sourcing Manager, Electrical owns category strategy and execution for Fervo’s electrical equipment scope — transformers, breakers, switchgear, motors, drives, and balance-of-plant electrical systems. This role partners directly with Engineering on specification decisions, builds competitive supplier options where categories have historically defaulted to a single vendor, and negotiates agreements that determine both cost and schedule risk for every GeoBlock.

Responsibilities

• Build and own a documented sourcing strategy for electrical equipment categories, including transformers, breakers, switchgear, motors, drives, etc.
• Identify and qualify alternate suppliers to reduce single-source dependency and strengthen negotiating leverage
• Track tariff exposure and enforce domestic content requirements, and incorporate strategic principles into sourcing decisions
• Engage Engineering early on electrical equipment specifications; help identify where specs drive unnecessary cost
• Bring supplier and market insight into design reviews before requirements are finalized
• Lead commercial negotiations for electrical equipment purchases and services, from RFQ through contract execution
• Structure contracts and delivery terms that protect schedule and give Fervo visibility into supplier performance
• Manage supplier relationships and performance across the electrical equipment category post-award
• Partner with Logistics and Expediting to maintain delivery of long-lead electrical equipment by site-required installation dates

Qualifications

Required

• 2+ years of sourcing, procurement, or category management experience, ideally in electrical equipment, power generation, or industrial capital equipment
• 5+ years in the workforce with experience designing, procuring, or maintaining electrical equipment
• Experience negotiating equipment or services contracts with meaningful commercial value
• Comfortable reading and engaging with electrical engineering specifications
• Track record of building supplier options where a category has relied on a single vendor

Preferred

• Degree in electrical engineering or similar
• Experience sourcing transformers, breakers, switchgear, or other power generation electrical equipment
• Familiarity with tariff and domestic content considerations (Section 301/232, IRA domestic content adders)
• Experience partnering directly with engineering teams on spec development
• Background in energy infrastructure, industrial manufacturing, or capital projects

Location

Fervo Energy is headquartered in Houston, TX. This is a hybrid role based in Houston. Some travel may 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.