Project Development Engineer

Danos•Spring, TX

About The Position

The Project Development Engineer is the front-end integrator for greenfield and brownfield upstream unconventional well locations, facilities, and infrastructure. The role translates business objectives, operational needs, and technical inputs into aligned, execution-ready scopes and builds partnerships across stakeholders to support safe, efficient, value-focused execution. The engineer leads early planning and scope definition for well pads, tank batteries, well pad facilities, flowlines, and related infrastructure through design-basis readiness. The role supports business-unit development planning milestones, including decision quality assurance reviews (Roadmaps) and drill unit reviews (DUR), and helps ensure smooth handoff into project execution. This position coordinates across business units, operations, wells, project execution, engineering, land, regulatory, project controls, and supply chain. It develops and evaluates infrastructure options, supports investment and development decisions, stewards pre-Gate 3 technical basis and planning, and contributes to tools and processes that improve scope quality and execution readiness. Additional duties include engineering review, risk assessment, incident investigation, performance testing, operating guideline development, and mentoring colleagues.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or related technical studies.
Prior experience in project development, execution, and planning activities.
Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs.
Must meet conditional job offer requirements.

Nice To Haves

Experience in upstream unconventional project development, execution, and planning.

Responsibilities

Evaluate and comment on internal and contractor discipline engineering work for compliance with company specifications, standards, and regulatory requirements.
Facilitate discipline engineering and design routines aligned with team goals, objectives, and procedures.
Communicate discipline engineering activities, progress, and issues accurately and promptly to the team and other company functions.
Participate in area risk assessments, HAZOPs, Hazard Hunts, and Critical Operating Parameter Reviews.
Lead investigations of downtime and process-safety-related incidents.
Identify project opportunities and develop scopes of work to support opportunity management.
Conduct risk assessments for new and existing facilities and close out mitigating action items.
Lead performance testing and plant-based trials.
Develop operating guidelines for facilities.
Coach and mentor fellow and junior colleagues.
Lead early planning and scope definition for well pads, tank batteries, well pad facilities, flowlines, and related infrastructure through design-basis readiness.
Support business-unit development planning milestones, including Roadmaps and drill unit reviews, and help transition projects into execution.
Integrate stakeholders across business units, Global Operations, Wells, Project Execution, Central Engineering, Surface Land, Regulatory, Project Controls, and Supply Chain.
Build stakeholder alignment early, clarify handoffs, reduce rework, and frame tradeoffs involving scope, schedule, cost, risk, and stakeholder expectations.
Develop and evaluate infrastructure options and provide value-focused recommendations for development scenarios to inform subsurface decisions.
Partner with business, reservoir, operations, and project controls teams on scoping and investment decisions.
Develop and steward pre-Gate 3 technical basis, project layouts, site requirements, permitting strategies, planning assumptions, and standard design alignment.
Coordinate early regulatory, land, permitting, constructability, equipment-demand, inventory-forecasting, and execution-planning inputs.
Coordinate project handoff to support execution readiness.
Identify process gaps, interface issues, and rework drivers in front-end development.
Support tools, workflows, and standards that improve scope quality, consistency, and execution readiness.
Contribute to a collaborative team culture based on clarity, ownership, constructive challenge, and trusted partnership.