Description
The Senior Division Order Associate is responsible for owning complex division order, ownership, and lease data workflows across Fervo’s geothermal assets. This role serves as a technical authority within the Land function, ensuring land system accuracy, compliance readiness, and alignment across Land, Title, Accounting, GIS, and Project teams.
This position is hands-on and execution-focused, with responsibility for high-priority assets, audits, system improvements, and cross-functional coordination — without formal people management responsibilities.
Requirements
Responsibilities
Division Order, Ownership, & Lease Data Management
- Prepare, review, and maintain complex division orders and ownership records in accordance with executed leases, contracts, recorded documents, and approved title output.
- Ensure lease terms, provisions, critical dates, and ownership interests are accurately reflected in Fervo’s land and division order systems (e.g., Quorum ODL/ODA or similar)
- Reconcile recorded documents, ownership updates, and system entries to maintain high data integrity
- Coordinate with Land and Title partners to resolve ownership discrepancies, system inconsistencies, or missing documentation
- Understand royalty obligations, ownership splits, and payment structures and flag inconsistencies for resolution
Compliance Tracking, Audits & Risk Management
- Track lease obligations including rentals, extensions, work commitments, unit obligations, and other critical dates
- Conduct lease and land data audits to identify errors, gaps, or compliance risks and support corrective actions
- Support project finance, diligence, and regulatory requests by preparing accurate land, lease, and ownership documentation
- Assist in identifying curative needs during audits and coordinate resolution with Land and Title teams
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Reporting
- Partner closely with Accounting to support revenue distribution, month-end close activities, audits, and internal controls
- Coordinate with GIS to align land system data with spatial layers and leasehold mapping
- Provide landhold, ownership, and compliance reporting to Finance, Development, and Project teams
- Serve as a go-to technical resource for land, ownership, and land system-related questions
- Process Ownership, Systems & Continuous Improvement
- Own end-to-end division order, lease administration, and land data workflows for assigned assets, with accountability for accuracy, completeness, and timeliness
- Serve as the primary owner for complex or high-priority workflows, including audits, data reconciliations, and system clean-up efforts
- Design, document, and improve standard operating procedures to enhance scalability, data integrity, compliance, and audit readiness
- Support land system configuration, enhancements, and integrations by providing hands-on subject-matter expertise and driving process improvements
Qualifications
Required
- 7–10+ years of experience in land or lease administration within geothermal, oil & gas, renewables, mining, or related energy sectors
- Experience managing leasehold databases or enterprise land systems (e.g., Quorum ODL/ODA, P2 Tobin, Enverus)
- Strong understanding of PLSS, federal and state leasing frameworks, and basic title concepts
- Demonstrated experience organizing large volumes of land documents with consistent naming and metadata standards
- Excellent analytical skills with the ability to identify compliance risks and resolve data discrepancies
- Strong written and verbal communication abilities
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities independently in a fast-paced environment
Preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in Energy Management, Business, Geography/GIS, Legal Studies, or a related field
- Experience with federal leasing, BLM processes, and state trust land administration
- Experience integrating land data into GIS systems
Location
Fervo Energy is headquartered in Houston, TX with growing offices in the Oakland, CA, Golden, CO, Reno, NV and Salt Lake City, UT. This position is eligible for hybrid work from Houston, TX; Salt Lake City, UT; or Golden, CO.
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 and veteran status or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. It also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.
