Asset Integrity Engineer at Fervo Energy Company – Salt Lake City, Utah

The Asset Integrity Engineer owns lifecycle technical risk across project execution, commissioning, and early operations, ensuring assets are delivered with long-term reliability, maintainability, and performance embedded from day one. This role bridges engineering, commissioning, and operations, carrying design intent and hazard analysis forward through energization, turnover, and stabilization of performance in early operations.

The position is electrically focused, with primary accountability for power distribution, protection systems, MCCs, VFDs, transformers, generators, and plant grounding. Mechanical scope includes rotating equipment, piping systems, and pressure boundaries. This technically demanding position requires an engineer who must be comfortable leading electrical energization readiness while also validating mechanical installation quality and performance baselines.

Since geothermal facilities are electrically dense, high-energy environments, this role requires disciplined oversight of protection coordination, energization risk, and integration of electrical, mechanical, and control systems to prevent latent defects and early-life failures. The ability to clearly translate these risks to all manners of stakeholders is paramount to this position’s success.

During commissioning, the Asset Integrity Engineer embeds lifecycle risk into inspections, testing, and deviation management. As projects transition to operations, the focus shifts toward reliability engineering, condition-based maintenance strategy, and early-life performance optimization by ensuring assets achieve and sustain design intent. Lessons learned from Commissioning and Operations are therefore carried back to design engineering activities to support the improvement of future projects.

Responsibilities

Lifecycle Asset Integrity & Risk Ownership

• Manage lifecycle asset integrity from design and hazard analysis (PHA/FMEA) through commissioning and into early operations.
• Develop and enforce commissioning Inspection & Test Plans (ITPs) aligned with design intent, equipment protection philosophies, and long-term reliability.
• Track, disposition, and drive closure of commissioning deviations, latent defects, and accepted risks; ensure lessons learned are embedded in future projects.
• Maintain lifecycle risk registers linking execution decisions to operational performance and failure modes.
• Partner with Engineering SMEs to resolve technical issues with clear documentation of risk, trade-offs, and final decisions.

Commissioning & Early Operations Support

• Facilitate and/or participate in FATs, PHAs, FMEAs, energization readiness reviews, inspections, and field testing.
• Apply risk-based decision-making to balance schedule, cost, safety, and long-term asset performance.
• Escalate technical risk when thresholds are exceeded or design intent is compromised.
• Review field test data for electrical and mechanical systems to validate performance against design criteria.
• Develop and maintain commissioning documentation supporting turnover and operational readiness.

Electrical & Power Systems Integrity

• Provide lifecycle integrity oversight for medium- and low-voltage systems, including switchgear, protective relays, transformers, generators, MCCs, VFDs, motors and grounding systems.
• Review protection coordination studies, relay settings, arc flash analyses, and NETA/IEEE test results prior to energization.
• Participate in PSSRs, punchlist walkdowns, and energization events for major equipment.
• Identify and mitigate latent electrical risks, including termination quality, torque compliance, environmental protection, and cable management.
• Coordinate with SCADA and controls teams to ensure safe and reliable integration of electrical and I&C systems.

Reliability & Maintenance Engineering

• Develop and implement condition-based maintenance strategies across electrical and mechanical systems (Thermography, Electrical signature analysis, partial discharge, vibration, lubrication, alignment, motion amplification, oil analysis, etc.).
• Lead or support root cause failure analyses (RCFAs) during early operations; translate findings into design, maintenance, training, procedure, and specification improvements.
• Use commissioning and early-life operating data to validate assumptions, prioritize remediation, and inform capital improvement plans.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in commissioning, asset operations, reliability engineering, or maintenance engineering for complex Power or critical infrastructure assets
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with three-phase power systems, including switchgear, protection schemes, transformers, generators, MCCs, and field testing per NETA/IEEE standards
• Demonstrated experience commissioning assets and living with the operational consequences during early operations
• Strong understanding of early-life failure modes, latent defects, and lifecycle risk in owner/operator environments
• Experience supporting or leading root cause failure analyses and applying findings to improve asset performance
• Proven ability to work across project execution and operations, balancing near-term delivery pressures with long-term asset performance
• Comfort working in both field and office environments, including frequent site deployments during commissioning and early operations (25-30% travel is expected)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to document technical risk, decisions, and mitigation plans clearly to stakeholders across the organization

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering is preferred; Mechanical or related disciplines will be considered with demonstrated electrical commissioning experience
• Experience developing or implementing condition-based maintenance programs and reliability strategies
• Exposure to geothermal, power generation, or process-intensive industrial facilities
• Familiarity with asset management and reliability standards (ISO 55000, RCM, FMEA/FMECA)
• Multiple certifications in condition monitoring technologies (vibration, ultrasound, oil analysis, electrical signature analysis, motion amplification, etc.)
• Professional certifications such as CMRP, CRL, CAMA, or similar

Location

Fervo Energy has offices in Houston, TX, Golden, CO, Reno, NV, Oakland, CA, and Salt Lake City, UT. This position will offer some hybrid work flexibility, but regular in-office presence at our Reno or Salt Lake City offices, or at Cape Station, will be required.