Maintenance Planner
Fervo Energy
Maintenance Planner
Fervo Energy
Delivers 24/7 carbon-free geothermal energy
Fervo Energy (NASDAQ: FRVO) is a modern power company developing next-generation geothermal resources to meet the growing demand for affordable, reliable, 24/7 carbon-free energy. Our mission is to transform geothermal into America’s most dependable and affordable source of clean, around-the-clock power. By combining innovations in horizontal drilling, fiber-optic sensing, and advanced reservoir engineering, Fervo has developed a repeatable approach to building utility-scale enhanced geothermal systems. Our flagship Cape Station development in Utah is planned to deliver 500 MW of firm, carbon-free power, and we are advancing a development pipeline of more than 50 GW. Join us and work alongside world-class engineers, geoscientists, operators, project builders, and business leaders working to make geothermal a cornerstone of a more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy future.
The Maintenance Planner owns work order planning and scheduling for Fervo’s fleet of geothermal generating facilities. This position reports to the Director, Maintenance & Reliability, and is the single point of ownership for turning an identified maintenance need into a fully planned, resourced, and scheduled work order. That need can originate as PM or CbM work generated by the maintenance strategy, or as a Work Request raised by Operations, Maintenance, Commissioning, or Reliability Technicians in the field.
At Fervo, we follow the Palmer methodology for Maintenance Planning and Scheduling; with clear distinctions between the Planning function and the Maintenance Execution function. Therefore, this role will not be involved in hands on maintenance work, but is expected to spend meaningful time in the field with Operations and Maintenance teams. This field time allows the Planner to understand the facilities, identify opportunities, and use that field experience to create and improve maintenance plans.
This position is responsible for both Planning and Scheduling. Planning determines what a job requires: parts, labor hours, discipline, procedure, permits, and outage or access windows, before it is scheduled. Scheduling determines when the job runs and which crew executes it, sequenced against competing priorities across every active site. The expected time allocations for these functions is approximately 80/20, planning to scheduling.
Work Order Planning
Convert preventive, predictive, and corrective maintenance Work Requests into fully planned work orders in the CMMS system. Each plan includes scope of work, procedure reference, required parts, estimated labor hours, and discipline requirements.
Process Work Requests from the fleet: PM/CbM work generated by the maintenance strategy, and Work Requests raised by Operations, Maintenance, Commissioning, Engineering, and Reliability. Work procedures will be built according to priority, asset criticality, and repeatability of the activity.
Work procedures shall be built by equipment type, not by site, so job plans are reusable between power generating facilities on similar equipment.
Provide labor and time estimates on every plan, even when imperfect. Iterate upon each plan through feedback received from the technicians to improve plans over time.
Verify job plans before release: parts on hand or on order, permits identified, and any outage or equipment-access window confirmed with Operations.
Maintain a 4 to 6 week rolling backlog of planned, ready-to-schedule work across all sites, sorted by priority and readiness. A plan is not complete until it is schedulable without further work by planning.
Serve as the fleet’s plant historian: maintain the searchable record of work performed, parts consumed, and findings identified on each asset, so future job plans are built from actual maintenance history rather than reconstructed from memory.
Scheduling
Build and maintain the weekly maintenance schedule for the fleet: a prioritized list of work derived from the Ready Backlog (Planning) broken down by labor types, and covering 100% of available work hours.
Coordinate week ahead crew hours and schedule commitments directly with site maintenance supervisors; the supervisor owns execution and day-of crew direction, the Planner creates the list of work derived from the craft availability and the contents of the ready backlog.
Bundle jobs on common equipment or in the same area/facility when scheduling, to reduce mobilization and production overhead rather than dispatching a crew separately for each work order.
Support Maintenance when unplanned/unscheduled opportunities arise to execute work from the Planned backlog. These tasks will break the current schedule but may also provide operational or maintenance opportunities that make them more worthwhile.
Recognize that Site Execution has final authority to break the published schedule for any reason deemed necessary. When that happens, rework the affected plan and future schedule rather than treating the break as a compliance failure.
CMMS Ownership
Own the CMMS as the system of record for planning and scheduling data across the fleet including work order quality, backlog accuracy, and schedule compliance reporting.
Track and report the fleet’s critical M&R KPIs as derived from The CMMS: schedule compliance, PM compliance, backlog size in weeks, and the ratio of planned to reactive to emergency work. These are the numbers the Director, Maintenance & Reliability uses to judge whether the M&R program is actually working.
Maintain the asset hierarchy, PM templates, and job plan library in The CMMS so that recurring work does not need to be re-planned from scratch at each site.
Help develop training plans for new employees on appropriate work streams and the use of The CMMS.
Parts and Materials Coordination
Identify and reserve parts and materials required for planned work, coordinating with Supply Chain on lead times for anything not on hand.
Flag parts availability as a schedule risk before a job is committed to the schedule, not after a crew is already mobilized.
Update recurring work procedures with learnings from past work, including specific tools, consumables, and parts required to execute work tasks more effectively.
Coordination and Escalation
Coordinate with engineering, maintenance and operations on newly generated PM/CbM work and on feedback from completed jobs that should inform future job plans.
Coordinate with Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, Commissioning, and Reliability Technicians as the standing notification sources feeding the planning backlog, and with Operations specifically on equipment access, outage windows, and any schedule changes that affect plant availability.
Escalate to the Director, Maintenance & Reliability any resource conflict, parts shortfall, or schedule risk that cannot be resolved at the Planner level.
5 or more years of maintenance planning and scheduling experience in an industrial, power generation, or process plant environment, directly supporting a work force of between 10 and 20 technicians.
Direct working experience with a CMMS (MaintainX, Maximo, SAP, or comparable) for work order planning, PM template management, backlog reporting and KPI management.
Strong knowledge of the preventive and predictive maintenance concepts required to plan work generated by a reliability program.
Experience scheduling multi-discipline maintenance work across more than one site or unit concurrently.
Experience coordinating parts and materials lead times with a supply chain or procurement function.
Strong written communication; job plans, schedules, and backlog reporting must be usable by people who were not in the room when the plan was made.
Experience in geothermal or other utility-scale power generation maintenance.
Professional background as a plant maintenance technician, engineer, or operator, with the relevant experience necessary to estimate labor hours for a variety of work tasks with reasonable accuracy.
Familiarity with RCM or FMEA-based maintenance strategy development, even if not the role setting that strategy.
Professional credentials such as CMRP, CMRT, or similar certifications.
Fervo Energy is headquartered in Houston, TX with growing offices in Oakland, CA, Golden, CO, Salt Lake City, UT, and Reno, NV. This position supports the fleet from launch, with travel to active sites, currently Cape Station in Milford, UT, as Planning and Scheduling needs require. Travel required is dependent upon relevant experience and will settle at ~15-20%.
Benefits and programs are subject to eligibility requirements and may change.
Fervo Energy highly values having employees work in the office to foster collaboration and strengthen our company culture. This role follows a hybrid schedule, with team members expected to work in the office three days per week. Fervo considers this in-office schedule an essential function of the role. Your recruiter can share more information about the schedule.
Fervo Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, gender, religion, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sex, genetic information, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local law. Fervo also prohibits discrimination based on the perception that an individual has any of these characteristics or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of these characteristics.
Delivers 24/7 carbon-free geothermal energy
Fervo Energy develops and operates geothermal energy projects to provide 24/7 carbon-free power. It combines proven oil-and-gas technologies with geothermal science, notably horizontal drilling and distributed fiber-optic sensing, to unlock geothermal resources that were previously uneconomical. The company’s main product is a steady, carbon-free geothermal energy supply that can be sold to electricity providers seeking decarbonization. Its approach differs from competitors by applying oil-and-gas drilling methods and advanced sensing to unlock higher resource potential and deliver reliable, cost-effective energy. Fervo’s flagship Cape Station Project demonstrates this approach in action. The company’s goal is to accelerate the clean energy transition by delivering reliable, scalable geothermal energy and expanding geoscience-enabled solutions for decarbonizing the electricity sector.
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