Water Lead

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Fervo's enterprise water sourcing strategy across all assets, covering consumptive and non-consumptive water needs, recycled water optimization, and long-term supply security.
• Own water demand forecasting, integrating drilling schedules, completions programs, and operational projections to ensure supply commitments are met without interruption.
• Build and maintain the water mass balance model across all active fields, tracking volumes from source to use to disposition and identifying gaps or inefficiencies before they impact operations.
• Evaluate and advance water recycling programs across all assets as a priority initiative, reducing water consumption and improving overall water use efficiency across all operations.
• Own the water well portfolio for all Fervo assets from initial siting and permitting through the full well lifecycle: SOR, BOD, drilling, completions, facilities hookup, and operations.
• Coordinate cross-functional delivery of water well programs with cross-functional leads, ensuring wells are online and capable ahead of operational demand.
• Own and manage the water budget across all asset areas, including AFE generation, cost tracking, NPT reporting, and forecast-to-actual variance for all water-related capital spend.
• Develop and maintain multi-year infrastructure plans for water impoundments, storage tanks, transfer lines, and disposal systems, ensuring capacity is installed ahead of peak demand.
• Provide technical input to water infrastructure design, collaborating with engineering and facilities teams to ensure systems are right-sized, cost-efficient, and operationally maintainable.
• Directly supervise field water operations personnel across Fervo's full asset portfolio, providing technical direction, performance management, and day-to-day operational support.
• Own relationships with all water transfer vendors, including contract management, performance monitoring, and driving cost optimization through bidding, scope standardization, and long-term agreements.
• Establish and maintain operational standards for water transfer, metering, sampling, reporting, and field HSE compliance across all Fervo water operations.
• Develop and manage monitoring and reporting systems for water volumes, water quality, system integrity, and regulatory compliance across all assets.
• Serve as the primary water liaison across D&C functional teams, actively managing working relationships with Resource, Drilling, Completions, Production, Construction, and Facilities teams to resolve constraints and ensure integrated execution.
• Represent water program status, risks, and capital requirements in internal leadership forums and reporting structures.
• Drive data and reporting discipline for water program performance, building dashboards and reporting mechanisms that give leadership clear, decision-ready visibility into supply status, costs, and risks.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, earth sciences, or a related technical discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in water management, produced water operations, or water infrastructure in oil and gas, geothermal, or adjacent energy sectors.
• Demonstrated ownership of multi-asset water programs, including sourcing strategy, supply forecasting, and infrastructure delivery.
• Experience managing water vendors, including contract negotiation, performance management, and cost optimization.
• Proven track record of building and managing budgets and AFEs for water-related capital programs.
• Experience directly supervising field teams, with a people-first management philosophy and a track record of developing technical staff.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with demonstrated ability to drive alignment and accountability across teams without formal authority.
• Clear, concise communication skills, with comfort presenting technical and financial information to senior leadership.
• Willingness to travel to field locations as operational needs require.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with produced water or water management programs such as the Permian or Appalachian Basins, where high-volume, multi-operator water logistics have been operationalized at scale.
• Hands-on experience with water recycling systems in completions operations, including treatment, blending, and re-use workflows.
• Familiarity with water rights frameworks, permitting, and regulatory compliance in western U.S. jurisdictions (Utah, Nevada, or comparable states).
• Experience with water mass balance modeling tools and integration with operational reporting systems. Track record of leveraging technology effectively to support advanced analytics and automation.
• Background in geothermal or unconventional completions where large-volume, high-rate water systems are a core operational dependency.
• Experience in early-stage company or asset build environments where systems and standards must be created, not inherited.