Job Title
Execution Planning Advisor II (Front-End)
Compensation
$127.03/hr
Location
Spring, TX 77389
Schedule
Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Approximately 10% travel to Midland Basin field locations
Target Start Date
ASAP
Tentative End Date
One year from start date
Scope
The Project Development Engineer serves as the front-end integrator for greenfield and brownfield upstream unconventional well locations, facilities, and infrastructure. This position translates business objectives, operational requirements, and technical inputs into clear, aligned, execution-ready project scopes. The role builds trusted partnerships across stakeholder groups and helps shape projects that support safe, efficient, and value-focused execution.
Key Responsibilities
Front-End Project Development and Scope Definition

Lead early planning and scope development for well pads, tank batteries, well pad facilities, flowlines, and associated infrastructure from project inception through design-basis readiness.
Translate business objectives, operational needs, and technical inputs into clear and execution-ready scopes.
Support business-unit development planning milestones, including Decision Quality Assurance Reviews/Roadmaps and Drill Unit Reviews.
Ensure projects transition smoothly from front-end development into execution.

Stakeholder Integration

Serve as the front-end integrator across the Business Unit, Global Operations, Wells/Drilling and Completions, Project Execution, Central Engineering, Surface Land, Regulatory, Project Controls, and Supply Chain teams.
Establish alignment early to reduce rework, clarify handoffs, and improve decision quality.
Frame options and tradeoffs when scope, schedule, cost, risk, and stakeholder expectations compete.

Value Creation and Decision Quality

Develop and evaluate infrastructure options supporting capital-efficient, value-focused development scenarios.
Provide project recommendations that help inform subsurface and development decisions.
Partner with business, reservoir, operations, engineering, and project controls personnel to support informed scoping and investment decisions.

Technical Basis, Planning, and Execution Readiness

Develop and steward pre-Gate 3 technical bases, project layouts, site requirements, permitting strategies, planning assumptions, and alignment with standard designs.
Coordinate early input regarding regulatory requirements, surface land, permitting, constructability, equipment demand, inventory forecasting, and execution planning.
Provide the coordination and stewardship needed for an effective project handoff into execution.

Continuous Improvement and Team Effectiveness

Contribute to a collaborative team culture centered on clarity, ownership, constructive challenge, and trusted partnerships.
Identify process gaps, interface issues, and sources of rework within the front-end development process.
Support the development of tools, workflows, and standards that improve scope quality, consistency, and execution readiness.

Key Relationships and Interfaces

Subsurface/Development Planning: Development concepts, priorities, well sequencing, resource plans, and economics
Global Operations: Facility requirements, operational constraints, operability, and maintenance considerations
Surface Land/Regulatory: Site planning, access, constraints, permitting strategy, and regulatory readiness
Integrated Operations Planning and Scheduling: Drilling and completions timing and planning-milestone compliance
Wells—Drilling and Completions: Well-planning interfaces, development timing, pad and facility coordination, and execution sequencing
Project Execution: Handoff readiness, constructability, execution planning, schedule assumptions, and scope clarity
Central Engineering: Standard-design verification, technical-basis support, and engineering guidance
Project Controls: Cost, schedule, and capital-efficiency support
Procurement/Supply Chain: Equipment demand, inventory requirements, and supply planning

What Success Looks Like

Becomes a trusted front-end integrator across the organization.
Develops clear and aligned scopes that reduce downstream rework and improve execution readiness.
Establishes stakeholder alignment before projects enter execution.
Improves development decisions through option evaluation, capital efficiency, and value-based tradeoffs.
Brings clarity to ambiguous problems and moves projects from uncertainty to executable plans.

Job Prerequisites

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical field is required.
Previous experience with project development, execution, and planning activities is required.
Upstream unconventional project experience is preferred.
Strong communication, stakeholder-management, and cross-functional coordination skills.
Ability to evaluate project options and communicate scope, cost, schedule, and risk tradeoffs.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.

Interview Process
30-minute Zoom meet-and-greet.

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