Supply Chain Specialist, Steel and Piping

Fervo Energy • Houston, TX

22d • Hybrid

About The Position

Fervo Energy is hiring a Supply Chain Specialist to own the fabricated structural steel and piping category. The role combines category strategy with hands-on procurement: setting sourcing strategies, advising supply chain and project leadership, and managing steel and piping packages from initial market engagement through purchase order. The specialist will assess opportunities to source raw steel directly from mills and service centers over time.

The position works closely with engineering to understand the cost, schedule, and bidder-pool effects of specifications. It is based at Fervo’s Houston headquarters, with occasional travel to fabrication shops, mills, and Cape Station. The role reports to the Supply Chain Manager, Power, and is an individual-contributor position. The work schedule is hybrid, with employees expected to be in the office three days per week.

Requirements

• Working understanding of how mills, service centers, detailers, and fabricators operate, how they price, and what drives their lead times.
• At least 3 years of experience buying, selling, or estimating fabricated structural steel or piping.
• Ability to read drawings and specifications and explain how specification choices affect cost, lead time, and the bidder pool.
• Ability to develop a strategy, defend it to leadership with data, and personally manage the RFQ process.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with AISC-certified fabricators.
• Experience on power generation, manufacturing, or heavy industrial projects.
• Experience with tariffs, domestic content, or Buy America requirements.
• Experience negotiating frame agreements or buying for a multi-project program.
• Experience buying raw steel directly from mills.

Responsibilities

• Develop Fervo’s category strategy for fabricated structural steel and piping, including fabricator selection, capacity commitments, and use of frame agreements versus project-by-project purchasing.
• Monitor steel and pipe markets, including mill pricing, fabricator backlog and capacity, tariffs, and domestic content rules, and make data-informed recommendations to leadership.
• Build should-cost models to establish fair pricing expectations before bids are received.
• Evaluate direct raw-steel purchasing and free-issue arrangements with fabricators, and develop the business case.
• Partner with engineering to assess how material grades, connection design, coatings, inspection and NDE requirements, and traceability affect cost, lead time, and the available bidder pool.
• Include quality requirements, such as inspection and test plans and mill test reports, in RFQs so costs are priced up front.
• Incorporate tariff and domestic content requirements into sourcing decisions.
• Manage steel and piping packages from market engagement through award, including prequalification, RFQs, bid leveling, negotiation, and purchase orders.
• Engage fabricators early about lead time and capacity so procurement timing supports the construction schedule, even before drawings are final.
• Develop bid packages that enable comparable quotes, clarifying lead-time start points, price inclusions, and quote validity periods.
• Negotiate commercial terms, including price basis and escalation, lead-time commitments, payment milestones, delivery tranches, warranties, and liquidated damages.
• Manage awarded contracts by tracking fabricator progress and deliveries against schedule, handling change orders and claims, and maintaining vendor relationships.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plan options.
• Employer-paid basic life insurance and short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• 401(k) plan with up to 6% match.
• Flexible paid time off and paid parental leave.
• Family-building, fertility, hormonal health, pregnancy, postpartum, and parenting support through Carrot.
• Dependent care flexible spending account for eligible child and elder care expenses.
• Annual Lifestyle Spending Account for eligible wellness expenses, including fitness, financial planning, pet insurance, and pet care.
• Employee ownership opportunities through an Employee Stock Purchase Program, stock option grants, and bonus opportunities for eligible roles.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed