Engineer, Strategic Planning

Seneca Resources•Houston, TX

About The Position

The Engineer, Strategic Planning supports corporate planning, forecasting, capital allocation, and strategic decision-making through technical, economic, and analytical evaluations at Seneca Resources Company, LLC. This role involves working closely with various functions including Operations, Subsurface, Asset Development, Marketing, Finance, and Investor Relations. The position requires a blend of unconventional reservoir engineering, development planning, economic analysis, and data analytics to provide insights into corporate performance and long-term value creation. The engineer is expected to contribute to process improvements, work under the direction of the Manager, Strategic Planning & Engineering, and take ownership of assigned workstreams.

Requirements

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.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
Understanding of the relationship between asset-level decisions and corporate performance metrics.
Good verbal, written, and presentation skills.
Ability to build effective working relationships across functional disciplines.
Attention to detail and commitment to analytical integrity, documentation, transparency, and continuous improvement.
Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
Bachelor's Degree in Petroleum Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline.
Minimum of 5 years of upstream experience, including reservoir engineering experience in unconventional reservoirs.
Experience developing production forecasts, including decline curve and type curve analysis for unconventional wells, as well as economic evaluations, development plans, reserves analyses, or corporate planning models.

Nice To Haves

Experience with reservoir, economic, planning, business intelligence, analytics, or data-management tools.
Experience with Spotfire, Power BI, SQL, Python, R, ArcGIS, or similar analytical and visualization tools.
Demonstrated interest in applying data analytics, automation, and visualization techniques to improve business processes and decision-making.
Experience supporting annual budgets, long-range plans, corporate forecasts, investment evaluations, or strategic planning activities.
Experience evaluating upstream acquisition, divestiture, or other strategic opportunities.
Upstream natural gas experience.
Demonstrated ability to work independently, own deliverables, and contribute to cross-functional projects, with interest in growing into a lead role.

Responsibilities

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.