SVP of Geothermal Operations
industrial_energy_operations › Geothermal · E2 — E2 — Senior Director (Executive) · Executive
Senior executive who directs the company's entire geothermal energy portfolio, from resource development through power generation.
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What this role is
Senior executive who directs the company's entire geothermal energy portfolio, from resource development through power generation. At the Senior Director (Executive) (E2) level, the role owns multiple functions or a major area, multi-function strategy and risk, and drives major-area outcomes. Leads function leaders.
What this level does
- Leads multiple functions or divisions through VPs — e.g. combining Exploration Geoscience, Reservoir Modeling and Environmental Assessment — integrating their outputs so resource, drilling and environmental risk are weighed together on cross-functional, high-consequence decisions.
- Makes portfolio-allocation calls across geothermal asset classes (hydrothermal vs. Enhanced Geothermal Systems vs. low-temperature/coproduced resources) where committing exploration and drilling capital to the wrong resource type may impact company viability.
- Negotiates critical matters — joint-venture exploration terms, resource-sharing and drilling risk allocation — with top leaders of partner developers, capital providers and off-takers.
- Owns the abstract, high-consequence problem of reconciling conflicting subsurface interpretations across teams into a single risked resource view that the company's development plan and capacity commitments rest on.
- Sets multi-year exploration and resource-development roadmaps spanning several regions or asset lines and holds VPs accountable for delivering assessed, drill-ready resource inventory.
- Knowledge applied
- Applies cross-functional knowledge spanning exploration geoscience, reservoir modeling and environmental assessment to steer resource-development strategy across multiple divisions, integrating subsurface, drilling and environmental risk into unified investment views.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Tackles abstract, high-consequence problems — allocating exploration and drilling capital across geothermal asset classes, reconciling conflicting interpretations into one risked resource view — where decisions may impact company viability.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Negotiates critical matters (JV exploration terms, drilling-risk allocation, capital) with top leaders of partners, off-takers and financiers; leads multiple functions/divisions through VPs (E1–E2).
- Typical experience
- 15+ years including strategic leadership of geoscience functions or development units and multi-region/multi-asset portfolio responsibility.
Skills at this level
- Geothermal resource strategy
- — Sets the enterprise or divisional strategy for which geothermal resource types (hydrothermal, EGS, low-temperature/coproduced) and regions to explore and develop, translating risked subsurface capacity outlooks into capital-allocation and pipeline decisions.
- Subsurface risk governance
- — Establishes and owns the standards and review discipline by which geophysical (seismic, magnetotelluric), geochemical and well data are QA/QC'd and integrated into conceptual and reservoir models, ensuring resource-capacity estimates carried into investment decisions are defensible.
- Geothermal systems knowledge
- — Commands the technical basis of geothermal systems — hydrothermal and EGS behavior, structural geology, fluid flow, geothermal modeling and well planning — deeply enough to judge and direct the resource interpretations produced by subordinate geoscience teams.
- Resource capacity estimation oversight
- — Governs how power and thermal capacity are estimated from integrated geothermal models, holding assessed capacity to a rigor sufficient for external commitments to investors, partners and off-takers.
- Exploration campaign portfolio direction
- — Prioritizes and funds exploration campaigns — geophysical/geochemical surveys, temperature-gradient and test-drilling programs — across a portfolio of prospects, deciding which advance to drilling targets and which are retired.
- Cross-functional development integration
- — Aligns geoscience resource output with drilling, engineering, generation, environmental and commercial functions so subsurface uncertainty is weighed alongside drilling and environmental risk in enterprise development decisions.
- External and regulatory representation
- — Represents the company on geothermal resource and technical strategy in industry bodies, regulatory and policy forums and standards discussions, where positions taken influence permitting, capital access and the license to explore.
- Executive geoscience talent leadership
- — Builds and develops the geothermal geoscience organization — hiring and leading Directors and principal scientists, setting technical-review and mentoring cadence — to sustain subsurface-assessment capability as a durable enterprise asset.
- Capital and partnership negotiation
- — Negotiates joint-venture exploration terms, resource-sharing arrangements and drilling-risk allocation with partner developers, capital providers and off-takers on matters that can affect company viability.
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