Production Engineering Manager at Fervo Energy optimizing geothermal asset performance. Leading engineering activities and establishing performance standards for operational efficiency and safety.
Responsibilities
Own day-to-day production and injection performance for assigned geothermal assets, including well surveillance, system monitoring, and regulatory testing.
Establish and maintain production engineering standards, workflows, and operating rhythms to support safe, reliable, and repeatable operations.
Lead the use of real-time data, analytics, and digital tools to diagnose performance issues, track system health, and support operational decision-making.
Develop and maintain well and system performance models to support forecasting, optimization, and scenario analysis.
Own short-term production forecasts and performance variance analysis, including documentation of downtime and underperformance using structured root cause analysis.
Identify, prioritize, and execute short- and medium-term production enhancement and reliability improvement opportunities across wells and surface systems.
Lead the planning, execution support, and post-job evaluation of geothermal well interventions, workovers, and remedial operations.
Identify, assess, and manage well and system risks, including integrity, scaling, corrosion, and other risks.
Requirements
B.S. in Engineering (Petroleum, Mechanical, Chemical, or a related discipline).
10+ years in production engineering/operations/subsurface roles with ownership of well and system performance; waterflood and injection well operating experience required.
Strong understanding of well performance, production/injection systems, and surface facilities.
Experience building/leading surveillance, forecasting, optimization, and intervention planning workflows.
Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills.
Proficiency with production engineering and modeling tools (e.g., nodal/system modeling, data visualization).
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