Power Engineering Manager in Oakland, California at Fervo Energy Company

As Power Engineering Manager, you will be one of the functional leaders responsible for designing Fervo’s innovative power plants. As Fervo moves from engineering first-of-a-kind projects to widespread scaling, you will help drive the facilities team toward a manufacturing mindset, optimizing each subsequent power plant for cost and cycle time.

To be successful in this role, you must possess exceptional technical expertise in the power engineering discipline, and you must demonstrate a highly collaborative approach to working closely with the subsurface and facilities teams. You will report to the Director of Engineering.

Responsibilities

Technical and Execution Leadership

• Own specification generation, design, and analysis of electrical power systems for power generation and surface facilities (power delivery, systems, transmission, distribution, substations, etc.)
• Drive first-principles tradeoff analysis across power delivery systems to optimize plant performance
• Identify opportunities to simplify and accelerate designs while maintaining technical excellence
• Inform and support procurement efforts relating to electrical scopes of power plant designs
• Clearly communicate technical decisions, risks, and tradeoffs to executive leadership, enabling timely alignment and execution
• Collaborate with cross-functional leaders beyond the engineering function to educate stakeholders and ensure electrical system priorities support overall project goals

Team and Culture

• Recruit, coach, and manage a world-class team of 6-8 electrical engineers
• Instill a culture of extreme ownership — where engineers own cost, safety, and constructability, not just design
• Encourage rapid iteration, bias for speed, and resilience under pressure
• Foster collaboration across disciplines (process, mechanical, I&C, rotating equipment) and with external partners
• Lead a team executing across multiple challenging and diverse technical workstreams, balancing near-term delivery with long-term scalability
• Support leadership in setting priorities, sequencing work, and making informed decisions across competing project demands

Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering or related discipline
• 8+ years of experience in electrical engineering in large capital projects
• Proven track record leading and developing high-performing engineering teams
• Deep expertise in power delivery & systems, transmission, distribution, and substations
• Strong communication and leadership skills; ability to translate technical complexity into clear decisions

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 Oakland, CA 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-$240,000 based on California 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.