Engineer, Strategic Planning

Seneca Resources Company, LLC, the oil & gas exploration and production subsidiary of National Fuel Gas Company (NYSE: NFG) explores for, develops and produces natural gas and crude oil reserves in Appalachia. Seneca’s headquarters are located in Houston, Texas with offices in Pittsburgh, Brookville, Mansfield, Williamsport and Kane, PA. Seneca’s investment activity is in the Marcellus and Utica Shales in Pennsylvania, where the company controls approximately 1.2 million net prospective acres and is one of the largest producers in the basin with approximately 1,000 wells.

As an active exploration and production company in the northeastern U.S. for more than 100 years, Seneca Resources Company, LLC is committed to safety, environmental stewardship, increased productivity and maximizing shareholder value.

The Engineer, Strategic Planning supports corporate planning, forecasting, capital allocation, and strategic decision-making through technical, economic, and analytical evaluations. The role works closely with Operations, Subsurface, Asset Development, Marketing, Finance, Investor Relations, and other functions to develop forecasts, evaluate strategic alternatives, assess investment opportunities, and support executive decision-making.

The position combines unconventional reservoir engineering, development planning, economic analysis, and data analytics to provide insight into corporate performance, capital allocation, and long-term value creation. The Engineer contributes to the continuous improvement of planning processes, models, and decision-support tools.

The Engineer works under the direction of the Manager, Strategic Planning & Engineering, takes ownership of assigned work streams, and is expected to grow toward broader responsibility over time.

Responsibilities include:

• Support maintenance and enhancement of the corporate NAV and planning model, integrating technical, operational, commercial, and financial assumptions while ensuring data quality, consistency, and transparency.
• Develop production forecasts for unconventional wells, development scenarios, and economic evaluations to support corporate planning, capital allocation, budgeting, and long-range planning activities.
• Evaluate development opportunities and strategic alternatives through economic, sensitivity, and uncertainty analyses to assess impacts on production, free cash flow, capital efficiency, inventory, returns, and long-term value.
• Support evaluation of capital investment decisions by comparing competing opportunities and identifying associated risks, tradeoffs, and value drivers.
• Provide technical and economic support for acquisition, divestiture, joint venture, infrastructure, and other corporate development evaluations.
• Collaborate with Operations, Subsurface, Asset Development, Marketing, Land, Accounting, Finance, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment of planning assumptions and evaluation methodologies.
• Prepare analyses, presentations, and recommendations for Strategy Meetings, senior management, Board materials, and other decision-support activities.
• Support Investor Relations activities through peer benchmarking, market analysis, earnings support materials, and other external performance analyses as required.
• Review forecasts and planning assumptions with a questioning mindset, identify risks, uncertainties, opportunities, and inconsistencies, and communicate findings effectively to management.
• Develop and maintain planning databases, analytical tools, dashboards, and reporting solutions, and apply data analytics, visualization, automation, and scripting to streamline workflows and improve forecasting accuracy and planning efficiency.
• Support the development and maintenance of planning standards, methodologies, documentation, governance processes, and quality-control procedures.

• Strong reservoir engineering knowledge of unconventional reservoirs, including decline curve analysis, type curve development, well performance and EUR evaluation, and well spacing and development optimization.
• Solid working knowledge of upstream oil and gas development planning, reservoir engineering, production forecasting, economic evaluation, and capital planning.
• Working knowledge of economic and analytical modeling, including discounted cash flow analysis, valuation, scenario analysis, sensitivity analysis, and uncertainty evaluation.
• Intellectual curiosity and self-motivation: asks why, digs into data and assumptions, takes…