Execution Planning Advisor II; Front End

• Project Execution and Planning activities
• Upstream unconventional facilities
• Brownfield verification
• P&IDs
• plot plans
• routing
• tie-ins
• field execution planning

Title: Execution Planning Advisor II (Front End)

Location: Spring, TX (approx. 10% travel to Midland Basin field locations)

Schedule: Monday-Friday 8-5

Overview

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 will build trusted partnerships across stakeholder groups and helps shape projects that support safe, efficient, capital-conscious, and value-focused execution.

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,…