Execution Planning Advisor II (Front-End)

Job Title Execution Planning Advisor II (Front-End) Compensation $127.03/hr No allowances Location Houston Campus Approximately 10% travel to Midland Basin field locations Schedule Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. 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 coordinates technical development, regulatory and permitting requirements, cost and schedule considerations, operational risks, and stakeholder expectations to establish a complete project basis before execution. This individual builds trusted partnerships across stakeholder groups and helps shape projects that support safe, efficient, capital-conscious, 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, gathering systems, water infrastructure, access roads, power, compression, and associated upstream infrastructure. Progress projects from initial concept through design-basis and execution readiness. Translate business objectives, operational needs, subsurface plans, and technical inputs into clear, complete, and execution-ready scopes. Develop and coordinate front-end engineering and design activities, feasibility assessments, project alternatives, and technical-basis documentation. 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 detailed engineering, construction, commissioning, startup, and operations. 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, Procurement, and Supply Chain teams. Coordinate technical and operational interfaces between Wells, surface facilities, production operations, infrastructure, and project-execution teams. Establish stakeholder alignment early to reduce rework, clarify responsibilities and handoffs, and improve decision quality. Facilitate multidisciplinary reviews and communicate technical information, risks, assumptions, and recommendations to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders. Frame alternatives and tradeoffs when scope, schedule, cost, risk, constructability, regulatory requirements, and stakeholder expectations compete. Value Creation and Decision Quality Develop and evaluate facility and infrastructure alternatives supporting capital-efficient, value-focused development scenarios. Prepare technical recommendations that help inform subsurface, development, sequencing, and investment decisions. Support preparation and evaluation of project cost estimates, AFEs, schedules, equipment requirements, and execution strategies. Monitor project assumptions, costs, schedule risks, and potential scope changes during front-end development. Identify opportunities to reduce capital spending, operating costs, execution risks, downtime, and unnecessary project complexity. Partner with business, reservoir, operations, engineering, and project-controls personnel to support informed scoping and investment decisions. Technical Basis, Risk Management, 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, environmental constraints, permitting, constructability, equipment demand, inventory forecasting, and execution planning. Identify technical complexity, operational interfaces, project risks, and potential execution constraints during the planning phase. Support risk assessments, constructability reviews, design reviews, readiness reviews, and other decision-quality activities. Develop or support project workflows, stage-gate deliverables, QA/QC processes, and documentation requirements. Coordinate commissioning, startup, operational-readiness, and SIMOPS considerations during front-end planning. Provide the coordination and technical stewardship needed for an effective project handoff into execution. Confirm that approved scope, technical requirements, assumptions, risks, costs, schedules, and stakeholder commitments are clearly documented before handoff. Regulatory and Permitting Coordination Support development and implementation of permitting strategies for upstream well locations, production facilities, flowlines, gathering infrastructure, access, and related project components. Coordinate with regulatory, environmental, surface land, engineering, and operations personnel to identify requirements and constraints early. Track permitting inputs and regulatory commitments that could affect project scope, schedule, cost, or execution sequencing. Ensure regulatory and permitting considerations are incorporated into the project basis and execution plan. 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, recurring execution problems, and sources of rework within the front-end development process. Capture and communicate lessons learned from project development, construction, commissioning, startup, and operations. Support development of tools, workflows, templates, standards, and quality-control practices that improve scope quality, consistency, and execution readiness. Promote continuous improvement through benchmarking, performance reviews, and comparison of planned results against actual project outcomes. Provide technical guidance, coaching, and knowledge sharing to less-experienced team members when needed. Key Relationships and Interfaces Subsurface/Development Planning: Development concepts, priorities, well sequencing, resource plans, economics, and infrastructure requirements Global Operations: Facility requirements, operational constraints, operability, maintainability, commissioning, startup, and maintenance considerations Surface Land/Regulatory: Site planning, access, constraints, permitting strategy, environmental requirements, and regulatory readiness Integrated Operations Planning and Scheduling: Drilling and completions timing, development sequencing, project dependencies, and planning-milestone compliance Wells—Drilling and Completions: Well-planning interfaces, development timing, pad and facility coordination, execution sequencing, SIMOPS, and operational risks Project Execution: Handoff readiness, constructability, execution planning, commissioning, schedule assumptions, and scope clarity Central Engineering: Standard-design verification, technical-basis support, engineering assurance, design reviews, and technical guidance Project Controls: Cost estimating, AFE development, schedule development, forecasting, risk analysis, and capital-efficiency support Procurement/Supply Chain: Equipment demand, long-lead items, inventory requirements, contracting strategies, and supply planning What Success Looks Like Becomes a trusted front-end integrator across the organization. Develops clear, complete, and aligned scopes that reduce downstream rework and improve execution readiness. Establishes stakeholder alignment before projects enter execution. Identifies permitting, land, technical, constructability, cost, schedule, and operational risks early enough to influence project decisions. Improves development decisions through option evaluation, capital efficiency, and value-based tradeoffs. Produces effective project handoffs with clearly documented scope, technical basis, risks, assumptions, schedules, costs, and stakeholder commitments. Brings clarity to ambiguous problems and moves projects from uncertainty to executable plans. Uses lessons learned and performance feedback to improve future project-development workflows and outcomes. Job Prerequisites Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical field is required. Previous experience with project development, front-end planning, project execution, or engineering activities is required. Experience developing projects through feasibility, concept selection, FEED, design-basis, or stage-gate readiness is strongly preferred. Upstream oil and gas experience involving production facilities, well pads, tank batteries, flowlines, gathering systems, or associated infrastructure is preferred. Upstream unconventional development experience is strongly preferred. Experience supporting greenfield and brownfield projects is preferred. Working knowledge of project scope development, cost estimating, AFE preparation, scheduling, risk identification, and execution planning. Experience coordinating regulatory, permitting, surface land, constructability, commissioning, startup, or operational-readiness requirements is preferred. Ability to evaluate project alternatives and clearly communicate scope, cost, schedule, technical, operational, and execution-risk tradeoffs. Strong communication, stakeholder-management, and multidisciplinary coordination skills. Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and technical-writing abilities. Experience with QA/QC workflows, readiness reviews, lessons learned, and continuous-improvement processes is preferred. Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications. Experience with engineering, planning, project-controls, visualization, or well-management software is beneficial. Interview Process 30-minute Zoom meet-and-greet. #J-18808-Ljbffr Rwdy, Inc.