Senior Geothermal Consultant
About the role
Black & Veatch has an exciting opportunity within our Infrastructure Advisory Technical Delivery Team. The Geothermal Senior Consultant serves as a hands-on technical lead supporting engineering design, technical evaluations, and multidisciplinary integration of utility-scale geothermal surface facilities and associated infrastructure.
Responsibilities
Execute technical due diligence, feasibility studies, and risk assessments for geothermal surface and wellfield interface systems.
Develop technical deliverables defining assumptions, risks, constraints, and recommended paths forward.
Support Owner’s Engineer / Independent Engineer scopes through disciplined technical review.
Translate subsurface data (well performance, reservoir behavior) into actionable surface system inputs.
Lead or support engineering of surface systems including heat rejection, steam/brine handling, and reinjection systems.
Develop and review mass and energy balances, PFDs, and equipment definitions.
Support FEL/FEED deliverables, Basis of Design documents, and system layouts.
Participate in HAZOP, operability reviews, and commissioning activities.
Provide technical oversight of surface–subsurface interface design including wellhead and reinjection systems.
Integrate subsurface inputs including flow, pressure, temperature, and fluid chemistry into design basis.
Support conceptual and FEED-stage design of wellhead piping, control systems, and reinjection networks.
Ensure alignment between reservoir strategy and surface system performance.
Identify and communicate interface risks between reservoir behavior and surface system design.
Lead preparation of reports, presentations, processes, tools, models, and other deliverables to effectively communicate analysis and recommendations to clients.
Proactively develop additional knowledge and experience in area(s) of expertise and participate in professional development opportunities and with professional societies, including presenting at conferences.
Actively coordinate with team members and subject matter experts to align project deliverable content, ensure high-quality deliverables and successful project outcomes.
Qualifications
Experience across feasibility, FEED, detailed design, and construction support.
Hands-on experience with surface systems and wellhead/reinjection integration.
Experience supporting technical evaluations or Owner’s Engineer roles.
Experience with thermal/process system design and fluid handling, multidisciplinary coordination, and technical risk identification and communication.
Professional Engineer (PE) or equivalent.
Five or more (5+) years’ experience in geothermal and/or thermal power generation projects.
Experience with advanced geothermal systems or emerging technologies.
Exposure to interconnection studies or grid coordination.
Benefits
Black & Veatch offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurances, disability, a robust wellness program, flexible work schedules, paid vacation and holiday time, sick time, and dependent sick time. Additional benefits include a company-matched 401k plan, adoption reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, vendor discounts, an employment referral program, AD&D insurance, pre-taxed accounts, and a voluntary legal plan.