Description
The Project Expeditor owns the delivery schedule for the materials, components, and equipment that keep Fervo's projects moving. They build and maintain the master delivery timeline, track critical packages from award through fabrication and shipment, and surface risk before it threatens a drilling program or project milestone. the planning, coordination, and on-time delivery of materials, components, and equipment across Fervo's active project portfolio. This mid-level role owns the schedule-side view of procurement — building and maintaining the master delivery timeline, tracking critical-path packages from award through fabrication and shipment, and surfacing risks to leadership before they threaten a drilling program or project milestone.
This role works closely with Engineering, Construction, Logistics, and Field Operations. The right person keeps a large portfolio of purchase orders and vendor commitments aligned to the integrated project schedule and has the judgment to know which packages actually matter to cycle time and well cost.: the Expeditor works across procurement, engineering, logistics, and field operations to keep a portfolio of purchase orders and vendor commitments aligned to an integrated project schedule. Success requires strong schedule ownership, structured status reporting, and the judgment to prioritize the packages that matter most to overall project timelines and well costs.
Requirements
Responsibilities
- Own and reissue the consolidated procurement and delivery schedule across active packages
- Track open purchase orders against the master schedule and flag deviations from committed delivery dates early
- Run recurring check-ins with vendors and freight carriers to validate schedule commitments and drive corrective action
- Track dependencies between vendor drawings, engineering approvals, fabrication milestones, and site readiness, and resolve conflicts before they cascade downstream
- Escalate delivery and schedule risk to the Procurement Manager and project stakeholders with a recommended path forward
- Support field teams during active drilling campaigns, prioritizing material needs by operational urgency and non-productive-time risk
- Maintain supplier performance reporting — on-time, delivery, lead times, filling rates — to inform future award and scheduling decisions
- Keep order status, delivery milestones, and supplier correspondence current in Fervo's ERP and procurement systems
- Drive continuous improvement
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, engineering, or a related field; equivalent oilfield or energy supply chain experience considered
- 3+ years of experience in expediting, procurement, scheduling, or supply chain project management
- Working knowledge of project scheduling tools (Primavera P6, MS Project, or similar) and ERP/procurement platforms
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in oilfield services, upstream / downstream oil and gas, geothermal, or heavy industrial supply chains
- Familiarity with Incoterms, freight logistics, and HSE requirements for material handling
- Exposure to manufacturing-mode or repeatable project delivery models
Who Thrives at Fervo
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 industry norms.
- Extreme ownership mindset
- Bias for speed and iteration
- Simplifiers who cut complexity
- Collaborators who see supply chain and the business as inseparable
- Mission-driven
Location
Fervo Energy is headquartered in Houston, TX. This is a hybrid role based in Houston, with travel to project sites
up to 20%.