Hybrid Reservoir Engineering Manager

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About the role

  • Reservoir Engineering Manager at Fervo Energy, developing the world’s largest enhanced geothermal systems. Leading reservoir engineering efforts and collaborating across disciplines to optimize field development strategies.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor the reservoir engineering team, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement
  • Provide technical oversight and quality control of reservoir engineering analyses, models, forecasts, and development recommendations
  • Ensure reservoir engineering work meets high technical standards and supports efficient decision-making across development teams
  • Stewardship of data acquisition activities, budget, and AFE’s
  • Lead reservoir engineering contributions to wellfield development planning, including well spacing, stimulation strategies, production forecasting, and long-term resource management
  • Integrate geological, geomechanical, operational, and production data to optimize field development strategies
  • Evaluate development scenarios and provide recommendations that balance technical performance, operational risk, and economic outcomes
  • Collaborate with completions engineers to evaluate and optimize stimulation designs for enhanced geothermal wells
  • Analyze stimulation performance using field data, modeling, and diagnostic testing to improve future well designs
  • Lead development and application of reservoir simulation and fracture modeling tools to support field development decisions
  • Design subsurface data acquisition strategies to reduce development uncertainty and improve reservoir understanding
  • Develop and maintain production forecasts to support development planning and commercial decisions
  • Work closely with geology, drilling, completions, and power generation teams to ensure alignment between subsurface understanding and development execution
  • Identify opportunities to improve reservoir engineering workflows, modeling approaches, and development strategies.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Petroleum Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Geological Engineering, or related discipline
  • 8+ years of reservoir engineering experience in oil & gas or geothermal development
  • Strong experience supporting field development planning and production forecasting in unconventional or complex reservoirs
  • Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership
  • Experience working in cross-disciplinary development teams including geology, drilling, completions, and operations
  • Proficiency with reservoir and fracture simulation tools such as ResFrac, CMG, Eclipse, Intersect, GOHFER, StimPlan, Kinetix, FracOptima, or similar
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate technical analyses into actionable development decisions
  • Experience with data analytics, machine learning, or Python-based workflows for subsurface analysis.

Benefits

  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Life
  • Short-term and long-term disability
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Paid parental leave
  • Incentive stock options program
  • Bonus incentive program
  • 401(k) plan with employer match

Job title

Reservoir Engineering Manager

Job type

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

$180,000 - $220,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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