Execution Planning Advisor II (Front-End)

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.