Maintenance Planner

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.