Project Developer

Vaulted Deep•Houston, TX

12d•Onsite

About The Position

Vaulted Deep develops, constructs, owns, and operates deep well injection facilities that permanently remove carbon from the atmosphere by injecting organic waste — manure, treated sewage, paper sludge, and agricultural byproducts — below confining geology. The Project Developer coordinates a project through the stage-gate development process — from origination through Final Investment Decision — integrating the technical, commercial, permitting, land, and cost workstreams into a single, decision-ready view. The role owns schedule, budget tracking, and the project-economics inputs that management and the Investment Committee rely on. This is a project-integration and execution role, not a technical design function, although technical experience is preferred. The Project Developer does not own engineering or subsurface scope; they own that the project advances on schedule and on budget and that each stage gate is reached with complete, accurate deliverables. Every project in development needs an owner who holds the whole picture — cost, schedule, risk, and readiness — and drives it to each gate. This role makes stage-gate progression repeatable across a growing, multi-project pipeline: 10+ opportunities in origination, 3 in active development, targeting three-plus projects under construction within two years. The quality of the project overview and cost tracking at each gate determines whether management can make timely capital decisions.

Requirements

5–10 years of project experience in an engineering or similarly technical discipline
Experience as a Project Engineer, Project Controls Engineer / Analyst, or project coordinator on small-to-medium capital projects
Demonstrated experience with budgeting, scheduling, and cost tracking on capital projects
Experience coordinating projects through one or more stage-gate or capital-approval processes
Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical discipline, MBA preferred

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with EPC execution and civil / site-development projects
Exposure to project economics and investment-decision support
Experience with infrastructure, midstream, industrial, or energy capital projects
Working knowledge of scheduling and project-controls tools

Responsibilities

Coordinate a project through the stage-gate process from origination through FID and into construction handover
Build and maintain the integrated project schedule across technical, commercial, permitting, and land workstreams
Track cost against approved budget; identify and flag variances early
Maintain the project overview — status, economics, risks, decisions, and path to the next gate
Support project economics and investment-decision packages with Finance and the PMO
Coordinate stage-gate review materials and the deliverables required to clear each gate
Prepare forward-looking budget proposals and support procurement and EPC coordination
Track project risks and mitigations through close-out
Coordinate HSE, regulatory, constructability, and execution-readiness reviews.
Operate and maintain project economic models, evaluate diff– development scenarios, and recommend the most feasible path based on risk-adjusted returns, explicitly highlighting key assumptions, trade-offs, risks, and downside exposure.