Reservoir Engineering Manager

Fervo Energy is developing the world's largest enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) and is seeking a Reservoir Engineering Manager to lead reservoir engineering efforts supporting the development of our geothermal assets.

This role will be responsible for ensuring technical rigor in reservoir modeling, stimulation design, production forecasting, and wellfield development planning while mentoring and guiding the reservoir engineering team. The Reservoir Engineering Manager will work closely with geology, drilling, completions, power generation, and commercial teams to translate subsurface understanding into optimized field development strategies.

The ideal candidate is a strong technical reservoir engineer with unconventional development experience who enjoys mentoring engineers, challenging technical assumptions, and working collaboratively across disciplines to solve complex subsurface problems. The Reservoir Engineering Manager will report directly to the Director of Resource.

Responsibilities

Reservoir Engineering Leadership

• 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.

Development Planning and Optimization

• 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.

Stimulation Design and Reservoir Performance

• 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.
• Support development of stimulation strategies that maximize reservoir connectivity and long-term productivity.

Reservoir Modeling and Simulation

• Lead development and application of reservoir simulation and fracture modeling tools to support field development decisions.
• Integrate geologic, geomechanical, and production data into reservoir models used for development planning and forecasting.
• Conduct sensitivity analyses to understand uncertainty and optimize well and stimulation designs.

Data Acquisition and Reservoir Diagnostics

• Design subsurface data acquisition strategies to reduce development uncertainty and improve reservoir understanding.
• Evaluate and integrate diagnostic data including fiber optics, microseismic monitoring, tracer testing, and pressure transient analysis.
• Ensure data acquisition programs provide actionable insights that improve development outcomes.

Production Forecasting and Reserves

• Develop and maintain production forecasts to support development planning and commercial decisions.
• Perform production analysis and reservoir simulation to understand well performance and guide future development.
• Support reserves evaluation and resource assessment activities.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work closely with geology, drilling, completions, and power generation teams to ensure alignment between subsurface understanding and development execution.
• Partner with finance and commercial teams to support development economics and investment decisions.
• Present reservoir engineering insights and recommendations to senior leadership.

Continuous Improvement and Innovation

• Identify opportunities to improve reservoir engineering workflows, modeling approaches, and development strategies.
• Evaluate and implement emerging technologies that enhance reservoir understanding and development efficiency.

Required Qualifications

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Engineering or related technical discipline.
• Experience in unconventional reservoir development or enhanced geothermal systems.
• Experience integrating geomechanics into reservoir and fracture modeling workflows.
• Familiarity with fiber-optic diagnostics, microseismic monitoring, and other subsurface diagnostic technologies.

Location

Fervo Energy is headquartered in Houston, TX, with growing offices in Golden, CO, Reno, NV, and Oakland, CA, and Salt Lake City, UT. This position will be eligible for some hybrid work flexibility, but regular in-office presence at the Golden or Houston office will be required.

Compensation & Benefits

Fervo provides a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, short-term and long-term disability, flexible paid time off, and paid parental leave. Additionally, Fervo offers an incentive stock options program, a bonus incentive program, and a 401(k) plan with an employer match.

Fervo Energy is providing the compensation range and general description of other compensation and benefits that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position based on the successful applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities in addition to internal equity and geographic location. Expected Salary: $180,000-$220,000 based on Colorado locality, pay in other locations may vary.

Fervo Energy reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.