Chief of Staff

Chief Of Staff To The VP Of Operations

Fervo is working to build the most cost-effective, repeatable power plants in the world, unlocking 24/7 carbon-free energy from geothermal. Delivering on this mission demands strategic clarity, organizational discipline, and the ability to execute with speed across a complex, capital-intensive business. As Fervo scales from first-of-a-kind demonstration into fleet-scale project development, the company is building the operational rigor, capital strategy, and cross-functional alignment required to deliver geothermal at global scale.

Joining Fervo at this stage means operating at the center of company-building, where decisions around strategy, capital, and execution directly shape long-term value creation. The Chief of Staff to the CEO will serve as a force multiplier for the CEO, helping translate company priorities into coordinated action across engineering, development, finance, and commercial functions, while ensuring that the organization moves decisively and with discipline.

The Chief of Staff to the VP of Operations will serve as a direct extension of the VP across Fervo's Operations organization — spanning Operations Engineering, O&M, Production Engineering, and Commissioning — with accountability for keeping the full portfolio aligned, moving, and decision-ready. You will go where the leader cannot, represent the leader in forums the leader cannot attend, drive workstreams requiring senior coverage, and engage with full authority and accountability to make decisions on the leader's behalf. This role reports directly to the VP of Operations.

Fervo is scaling an industry-defining geothermal program from Cape Station Phase I through a fleet of repeat-build plants, and the Chief of Staff to the VP of Operations owns the operational rhythm that enables a single leader to manage a program that would otherwise require three. You will track AFEs and forecast spend, reconcile change orders, prepare executive-grade deliverables, run cross-functional meetings, close action items, and stand in for the leader across engineering, commissioning, production engineering, and O&M coordination. If a workstream is slipping, you identify the cause before you are asked. If a deliverable is due, it is on the leader's desk before they request it. You operate by reasoning from first principles, questioning every inherited requirement, eliminating what does not add value, simplifying what remains, accelerating where ownership permits, and building every output for repeatability across the next plant.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in an Engineering discipline (non-engineers will be considered if relevant experience can be demonstrated).
• 10+ years of experience in an engineering, finance, consulting, data science or operations role — preferably in the energy, oil & gas, or industrial sector.
• Demonstrated experience with project financial tracking: AFEs, budgets, change orders, vendor cost reconciliation, accruals, and variance analysis.
• Strong fluency reading and synthesizing engineering and construction documentation — P&IDs, schedules, drawings, vendor scope packages, commissioning procedures.
• Track record building executive-grade deliverables (PowerPoint, Excel models, written briefings) under tight deadlines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to engage credibly with senior executives and field personnel alike.
• Track record of operating at the intersection of multiple disciplines — engineering, construction, commissioning, operations, finance.
• Comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and equally comfortable revising those decisions as better information becomes available.
• Willing and able (with or without reasonable accommodation) to travel to Cape Station and other Fervo locations up to 25% of the time.

Location

Fervo Energy is headquartered in Houston, TX with offices in Oakland, CA, Golden, CO, Reno, NV, and Salt Lake City, UT. This position is an in-person role in our Houston, TX headquarters. Travel up to 25% is required for this role.

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.