Senior Production Engineer
Fervo EnergyHouston, TX
Full Time
Posted October 2, 2026
$123k - $175k· Est.
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- Freshness
- Open in the current public read path; this is not an employer guarantee.Last observed October 5, 2026
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- Modern power-system classification not yet published for this listing.Legacy source industry field: Energy Management
- Pay provenance
- Estimated benchmark; not employer-provided
Job Description
Reporting to the Production Engineering Manager, this role is the primary owner of production surveillance, well optimization, and short-term forecasting across producers, injectors, and ESP-driven water supply wells.
Key Responsibilities
- Production Surveillance, Daily Operations & ESP Management
- Own day-to-day surveillance of all Cape Station wells: producers, injectors, and ESP-driven water supply wells, developing and tracking KPI and system performance against operating envelopes.
- Performance monitoring of ESP systems on water supply wells; identify degradation early and escalate for intervention before failure.
- Run exception-based daily well review: identify off-trend wells, quantify variance from plan, and lead structured root cause analysis on anomalies and downtime events.
- Serve as the primary technical interface with Field Operations for day-to-day production questions, operating decisions, and well-level troubleshooting.
- Maintain surveillance procedures, data quality standards, and well review cadence; build the documentation others will execute against as the team and asset base grow.
- Support SCADA tag taxonomy, cloud historian data quality, and real-time monitoring integrity in partnership with the Digital Platform PE and IT.
- Well Optimization & Production Forecasting
- Maximize well deliverability and facility capacity utilization; identify operating envelope adjustments, debottlenecking opportunities, and injection rate optimizations across the producing and injection system.
- Own the rolling 90-day production and injection forecast: integrate downtime history, well-level performance trends, and planned operations to maintain a reliable short-term outlook.
- Track and classify downtime events by cause, duration, and affected system; quantify production variance against plan and maintain structured downtime records for reporting and RCA.
- Develop and maintain well performance models to support optimization decisions, operating envelope management, and scenario analysis.
- Run well performance tracking and near-term uplift analysis to spot underperforming wells and prioritize optimization actions.
- Surveillance Platform, Standards & Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Serve as the primary user voice and technical requirements owner for the PE digital surveillance platform; translate operational needs into platform specifications that the Digital Platform PE builds and automates.
- Define KPI definitions, anomaly detection thresholds, and dashboard requirements; ensure the platform reflects real operating priorities, not just available data.
- Contribute production engineering inputs, including downtime, operating trends, and forecast variance, to D&C and Central Engineering feed-forward reviews that drive GeoBlock cost and cycle improvements.
- Provide surveillance and performance data inputs to well intervention candidate identification and workover scoping reviews.
- Support state regulatory compliance and monthly production reporting with accurate, well-level production and injection records.
- Back up the Digital Platform PE on surveillance workflows and platform operations during absence or redeployment.
Requirements
- Experience in geothermal, waterflood, or injection-dominated production systems; closed-loop, hot fluid, or high-scaling-risk environments are a strong plus.
- ESP design or optimization experience beyond monitoring: sizing, VFD control, or failure mode analysis.
- Experience with industrial data historians in a real-time surveillance role.
- Track record building surveillance standards, operating procedures, or digital workflows in a new or greenfield operating context.
- Fluent with well nodal analysis and topside network modeling tools.
- Experience mentoring junior engineers or setting technical standards as a senior individual contributor.
- Catches variance early: reviews well and system performance daily and flags off-trend behavior before it becomes downtime.
- Owns issues end-to-end: drives anomalies and downtime events through root cause to resolution, escalating blockers early.
- Builds documentation others can run on: creates surveillance procedures and standards that scale as the team and asset base grow.
- Translates operating needs into platform requirements: partners with the Digital Platform PE to turn real operating priorities into dashboards, thresholds, and alerts.
- Communicates clearly across Field Operations, Plant Management, and engineering, with concrete data and action items.
Benefits & Perks
- Fervo offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, financial well-being, and life outside of work. Benefits for eligible employees include:
- Medical, dental, and vision plan options
- Employer-paid basic life insurance and short-term and long-term disability coverage
- A 401(k) plan with a dollar-for-dollar company match
- Flexible paid time off and paid parental leave
- Family-building, fertility, hormonal health, pregnancy, postpartum, and parenting support through Carrot
- A dependent care FSA for eligible child and elder care expenses
- An annual Lifestyle Spending Account for eligible wellness expenses, including fitness, financial planning, pet insurance, and pet care
- Employee ownership opportunities through Fervo’s Employee Stock Purchase Program, as well as stock option grants and bonus opportunities for eligible roles
- Benefits and programs are subject to eligibility requirements and may change.
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