Engineer, Strategic Planning

Seneca Resources Company, LLC•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. Working with teams across Operations, Subsurface, Asset Development, Marketing, Finance, Investor Relations, and other functions, the Engineer develops forecasts, evaluates strategic alternatives and investment opportunities, and supports executive decision-making. The role combines unconventional reservoir engineering, development planning, economic analysis, and data analytics to inform corporate performance, capital allocation, and long-term value creation, while contributing to ongoing improvements in planning processes, models, and decision-support tools. The Engineer works under the direction of the Manager, Strategic Planning & Engineering, takes ownership of assigned workstreams, and is expected to grow toward broader responsibility over time.

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.
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, including initiative in examining data and assumptions and independently learning tools and subject areas.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills, including the ability to integrate technical, operational, commercial, and financial information into actionable recommendations.
Understanding of how asset-level decisions relate to corporate performance metrics, including production, free cash flow, capital efficiency, inventory sustainability, returns, and value creation, or the ability to learn this quickly.
Good verbal, written, and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate complex technical and economic concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
Ability to build effective working relationships across functional disciplines and manage multiple assignments and priorities in a dynamic, deadline-driven environment.
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 required reservoir engineering experience in unconventional reservoirs, and exposure to development planning, production forecasting, corporate planning, asset evaluation, or economics.
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.
Demonstrated ability to work independently, own deliverables, and contribute to cross-functional projects, with interest in growing into a lead role.

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.

Responsibilities

Support maintenance and enhancement of the corporate NAV and planning model, integrating technical, operational, commercial, and financial assumptions and ensuring data quality, consistency, and transparency.
Develop production forecasts for unconventional wells, development scenarios, and economic evaluations for corporate planning, capital allocation, budgeting, and long-range planning.
Evaluate development opportunities and strategic alternatives using economic, sensitivity, and uncertainty analyses to assess production, free cash flow, capital efficiency, inventory, returns, and long-term value.
Support capital investment evaluations by comparing opportunities and identifying 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 align 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 through peer benchmarking, market analysis, earnings support materials, and other external performance analyses as required.
Review forecasts and planning assumptions, identify risks, uncertainties, opportunities, and inconsistencies, and communicate findings to management.
Develop and maintain planning databases, analytical tools, dashboards, and reporting solutions; apply data analytics, visualization, automation, and scripting to streamline workflows and improve forecasting accuracy and planning efficiency.
Support development and maintenance of planning standards, methodologies, documentation, governance processes, and quality-control procedures.