Execution Planning Advisor II (Front-End)

RWDY Inc•Spring, TX

2d•$127 - $127•Onsite

About The Position

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

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical field is required.
Previous experience with project development, front-end planning, project execution, or engineering activities is required.
Working knowledge of project scope development, cost estimating, AFE preparation, scheduling, risk identification, and execution planning.
Ability to evaluate project alternatives and clearly communicate scope, cost, schedule, technical, operational, and execution-risk tradeoffs.
Strong communication, stakeholder-management, and multidisciplinary coordination skills.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and technical-writing abilities.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.

Nice To Haves

Experience developing projects through feasibility, concept selection, FEED, design-basis, or stage-gate readiness is strongly preferred.
Upstream oil and gas experience involving production facilities, well pads, tank batteries, flowlines, gathering systems, or associated infrastructure is preferred.
Upstream unconventional development experience is strongly preferred.
Experience supporting greenfield and brownfield projects is preferred.
Experience coordinating regulatory, permitting, surface land, constructability, commissioning, startup, or operational-readiness requirements is preferred.
Experience with QA/QC workflows, readiness reviews, lessons learned, and continuous-improvement processes is preferred.
Experience with engineering, planning, project-controls, visualization, or well-management software is beneficial.

Responsibilities

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.
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.
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.
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, environmental constraints, permitting, constructability, equipment demand, inventory forecasting, and execution planning.
Identify technical complexity, operational interfaces, project risks, and potential execution constraints during the planning phase.
Support risk assessments, constructability reviews, design reviews, readiness reviews, and other decision-quality activities.
Develop or support project workflows, stage-gate deliverables, QA/QC processes, and documentation requirements.
Coordinate commissioning, startup, operational-readiness, and SIMOPS considerations during front-end planning.
Provide the coordination and technical stewardship needed for an effective project handoff into execution.
Confirm that approved scope, technical requirements, assumptions, risks, costs, schedules, and stakeholder commitments are clearly documented before handoff.
Support development and implementation of permitting strategies for upstream well locations, production facilities, flowlines, gathering infrastructure, access, and related project components.
Coordinate with regulatory, environmental, surface land, engineering, and operations personnel to identify requirements and constraints early.
Track permitting inputs and regulatory commitments that could affect project scope, schedule, cost, or execution sequencing.
Ensure regulatory and permitting considerations are incorporated into the project basis and execution plan.
Contribute to a collaborative team culture centered on clarity, ownership, constructive challenge, and trusted partnerships.
Identify process gaps, interface issues, recurring execution problems, and sources of rework within the front-end development process.
Capture and communicate lessons learned from project development, construction, commissioning, startup, and operations.
Support development of tools, workflows, templates, standards, and quality-control practices that improve scope quality, consistency, and execution readiness.
Promote continuous improvement through benchmarking, performance reviews, and comparison of planned results against actual project outcomes.
Provide technical guidance, coaching, and knowledge sharing to less-experienced team members when needed.