GreenFire Energy is seeking to fill the position of Project Manager for the company’s Geothermal Demonstration Project in Coso, California.
Qualifications:
Substantial experience in EPC power production, rotating equipment, and gas processing projects. Experience in oil & gas or geothermal projects preferred.
Overall responsibilities:
Project Management
- Plan and implement GreenFire Energy’s demonstration project
- Integrate workfronts including well engineering, power engineering, power export, managing risks on behalf of the Site Owners and GreenFire
- Control project interfaces by managing risk, developing decision rights clarity, and clear communications and reporting
- Budget and scheduling responsibility
- Risk Management and Assurance Planning
- Assist in identifying and engaging subcontractors
- Supervision and direction of subcontractors
- Coordinate all activities with Coso Operating Company as necessary or appropriate
- Regularly (weekly) report on progress, budget, and schedule
ECO2G™ technology advancement
- Identify ECO2G technology challenges and suggest solutions and other ECO2G improvements based on field experience
- Collaborate with the company’s technical team to suggest patents and other intellectual property
- Maintain and ensure the confidentiality of all proprietary information of the company
Company management and coordination
- Actively participate with company officers to execute the demonstration project
- Host tours of the demonstration project for the company’s potential customers, investors and approved geothermal industry representatives
- Assist in investor and technical presentations as requested
Alternative Project Feasibility Studies
- For commercial specific projects under consideration by the company, advise on draft technical feasibility assessments and meet with host owners/operators and potential financing sources
Specific aspects of the project for which the project manager will be responsible include:
Normal administrative matters, such as report writing, and permitting.
Integrate workfronts with the well engineering expert (TBD), the turbine/expander supplier, and Power Engineering or other) to put together a comprehensive plan for preparing the well for the demonstration project; including:
- Evaluating the existing site conditions information
- Well selection and handover from Coso
- Well workover studies, design, budget, procedures, execution, monitoring
- Surveillance plan, pre-logging and post-logging well inspection, monitoring
- Well integrity management, reporting, assurance (test well and water well)
- Water well
- Foundation, Civil Design
- Diesel Generator system specification
- CO2 Storage, pumping and vaporization design
- sCO2 Piping system design
- Well completion selection, design, budget, procedures, execution, monitoring, new vacuum insulated tubing (VIT) design
- Control valve, expander, heat exchanger and compressor design
- Cooling water system specification
- Instrumentation
- Control System specification
- Thrust block, pipe support design
- Temporary utilities design, electrical supply, lighting
- Control System Detailed Design
- Temp process water – Storage, pumping, and vaporization design
- sCO2 test plan
- Well plan for temporary suspension and handover back to Coso
- Final report and presentation
Manage Site work (as needed)
- Site fencing and security
- Site preparation
- Field offices, power, water, internet, sanitary facilities
- Site-process risk management plan, resulting in integrated HSE plan
- Crane, rigging: offloading, deliveries and equipment
- Well workover and completion (current zone abandonment, insert new VIT, replace wellhead, connect to surface equipment)
- Connect mud coolers and circulate cooling fluid, as required by plan
- Foundation slab: assume 18″ x 20 ‘x 40’
- Temporary electrical / generator sets
- Set sCO2 Equipment Skid
- Temporary cooling water system: buyout and installation
- Use of existing cooling tower or existing cold water supply
- Instrumentation and control
- H2O System – Temp process water storage, delivery system
- H20 System – commissioning
- H20 System – functional testing, well integrity (Kate has question – see above)
- CO2 system – storage and delivery system; installation
- CO2 system – commissioning
- Air and CO2 system – functional testing, well integrity
Shutdown, suspension, site restoration and handover to Coso
Relationship to Company
- Project Manager will be an Independent Contractor
- Anticipated to be a half-time position for 12-15 months beginning May, 2017
- Compensation to be negotiated and includes stock options
- All work will be performed in collaboration with the CTO, CEO, and other senior staff at GFE
- Reports to the CTO
For more information or applying for the position, email your resume and compensation expectations to brian.higgins@greenfireenergy.com
