Hybrid Production Engineering Manager

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About the role

  • 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).

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangements

Job title

Production Engineering Manager

Job type

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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