Senior Manager
Fervo Energy
Senior Manager
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 Senior Manager, Commercial Contracts will provide end-to-end commercial leadership for major equipment supply agreements and other strategic project contracts on a “cradle to grave” basis. This role will work across Legal, Supply Chain, Engineering, Project Management, Construction, Commissioning, Operations, and Finance. The Senior Manager will support contract negotiations and remain accountable after execution for contract administration, change orders, claims, supplier recoveries, warranties, and closeout. This position will report to the Senior Counsel, with a dotted-line relationship to Procurement leadership.
This role acts as a liaison between Legal, Supply Chain, and Engineering. Legal owns drafting, Procurement owns sourcing strategy and supplier selection, and Engineering owns technical scope and acceptance. This position provides the commercial continuity, contract discipline, and portfolio visibility needed to convert those decisions into executable agreements and enforce them through performance. The role will also improve Fervo’s contract-management processes from the ground up, using contract lifecycle management (CLM) systems and practical AI-enabled workflows to increase speed, visibility, and accountability.
Sourcing Events: Partner with Procurement and Engineering to plan and execute sourcing events for assigned major equipment and construction contracts, including commercial RFP content, contractual exceptions, bid evaluation, and award recommendations.
Negotiations: Lead day-to-day negotiations of equipment supply agreements, purchase terms, framework agreements, services agreements, amendments, and related commercial instruments under Legal’s direction. Negotiate pricing and payment mechanics, delivery commitments, performance obligations, liquidated damages, warranties, security, changes, acceptance, remedies, termination, and closeout requirements.
Contract Management Planning: Establish and maintain a contract-management plan for each assigned agreement, including obligations, milestones, deliverables, notices, change orders, payment conditions, liquidated damages, securities, acceptance requirements, and warranty periods.
Supplier Contact and Record Keeping: Serve as the principal commercial contracts contact for assigned suppliers after award, and maintain the definitive record of notices, decisions, changes, claims, backcharges, and unresolved obligations.
Change Control: Administer change control, evaluate supplier requests with Engineering, Project Controls, and Procurement, and negotiate approved change orders and commercial settlements within delegated authority.
Warranty and Supplier Recoveries: Lead the commercial management of warranty claims and supplier recoveries, including repair, replacement, reperformance, field service, expedited logistics, and recoverable costs.
Supplier Performance: Establish supplier performance measures and KPIs, lead periodic commercial reviews, and provide early warning of material cost, schedule, performance, and contractual risks.
Formal Correspondence and Disputes: Coordinate amendments, cure notices, reservations of rights, and other formal correspondence with Legal, and support material disputes with an organized factual and contractual record.
Portfolio Reporting: Maintain concise portfolio reporting on negotiations, obligations, changes, claims, warranties, supplier exposure, deadlines, and required management decisions.
Closeout and Lessons Learned: Conduct after-action reviews following each agreement’s closeout, and provide feedback to the Legal, Procurement, and Engineering teams to improve future contracting and sourcing decisions.
Scalable Procedures: Develop scalable contract-management procedures, templates, playbooks, registers, and training, and incorporate execution lessons into future contracts and procurement decisions.
CLM Process Ownership: Assess current contracting and post-execution processes from first principles, and serve as the business process owner for CLM workflows covering intake, negotiation, approvals, obligations, notices, changes, warranties, claims, and closeout.
AI-Enabled Workflows: Apply AI to defined contract-management use cases such as clause and obligation extraction, contract summaries, notice preparation, issue tracking, and reporting, with appropriate validation, human review, confidentiality, security, and access controls.
Data-Driven Improvement: Use contract data and baseline measures to improve cycle time, notice compliance, change-order aging, warranty recovery, data quality, and user adoption.
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, supply chain, business, finance, law, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience
10+ years of progressive experience in commercial contract management, project procurement, equipment contracting, claims, or related project-execution roles
Demonstrated experience negotiating and administering high-value equipment supply, EPC, construction, services, or other complex industrial agreements
Substantial post-award experience managing changes, claims, notices, warranties, supplier performance, and contract closeout
Strong working knowledge of payment milestones, schedule remedies, performance obligations, warranties, acceptance, changes, liability allocation, insurance, security, and termination rights
Ability to drive decisions across functions without direct authority and communicate complex commercial issues in concise, decision-ready terms
Hands-on experience improving contract work with AI, CLM, or comparable workflow tools, including workflow design, testing, data structuring, reporting, or implementation ownership
Ability to evaluate AI outputs against source documents and apply appropriate controls for accuracy, confidentiality, security, and human accountability
Willingness to travel to project sites, supplier facilities, factory acceptance tests, and commercial meetings as needed
Owner or developer-side experience combined with experience at an EPC contractor, OEM, or complex industrial supplier
Experience in power generation, renewable energy, data-center power, or other major industrial infrastructure
Experience with turbines or ORC systems, heat exchangers, pumps, process skids, transformers, switchgear, control systems, or comparable long-lead equipment
Experience with fast-track, first-of-a-kind, or design-evolving projects
Experience as a process owner, product owner, administrator, or implementation lead for a CLM platform, AI-enabled contracting solution, or related reporting system, with measurable improvement in a contract-management outcome
We screen for attributes as much as experience. The people who do best here share a few things in common:
First-principles thinkers who question inherited processes and trace problems to their source
An extreme ownership mindset and willingness to remain accountable through final resolution
A bias for speed, iteration, and practical implementation
Simplifiers who reduce complexity without losing necessary commercial discipline
Collaborators who can align Legal, Procurement, Engineering, and project teams
A commitment to Fervo’s mission and to building systems that scale
Fervo Energy is headquartered in Houston, TX. This is a hybrid role based in Houston, with regular in-office collaboration and periodic travel to project sites and supplier facilities.
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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