Job Type
Full-time
Description
The
Sourcing Manager, Electrical owns category strategy and execution for Fervo's electrical equipment scope - transformers, breakers, switchgear, motors, drives, and balance-of-plant electrical systems. This role partners directly with Engineering on specification decisions, builds competitive supplier options where categories have historically defaulted to a single vendor, and negotiates agreements that determine both cost and schedule risk for every GeoBlock.
Requirements
Responsibilities - Build and own a documented sourcing strategy for electrical equipment categories, including transformers, breakers, switchgear, motors, drives, etc.
- Identify and qualify alternate suppliers to reduce single-source dependency and strengthen negotiating leverage
- Track tariff exposure and enforce domestic content requirements, and incorporate strategic principles into sourcing decisions
- Engage Engineering early on electrical equipment specifications; help identify where specs drive unnecessary cost
- Bring supplier and market insight into design reviews before requirements are finalized
- Lead commercial negotiations for electrical equipment purchases and services, from RFQ through contract execution
- Structure contracts and delivery terms that protect schedule and give Fervo visibility into supplier performance
- Manage supplier relationships and performance across the electrical equipment category post-award
- Partner with Logistics and Expediting to maintain delivery of long-lead electrical equipment by site-required installation dates
Qualifications Required
- 2+ years of sourcing, procurement, or category management experience, ideally in electrical equipment, power generation, or industrial capital equipment
- 5+ years in the workforce with experience designing, procuring, or maintaining electrical equipment
- Experience negotiating equipment or services contracts with meaningful commercial value
- Comfortable reading and engaging with electrical engineering specifications
- Track record of building supplier options where a category has relied on a single vendor
Preferred
- Degree in electrical engineering or similar
- Experience sourcing transformers, breakers, switchgear, or other power generation electrical equipment
- Familiarity with tariff and domestic content considerations (Section 301/232, IRA domestic content adders)
- Experience partnering directly with engineering teams on spec development
- Background in energy infrastructure, industrial manufacturing, or capital projects
Location Fervo Energy is headquartered in Houston, TX. This is a hybrid role based in Houston. Some travel may be required.
