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Engineer, Strategic Planning

Houston, TX

Company Overview

Seneca Resources Company, LLC, the oil & gas exploration and production subsidiary of National Fuel Gas Company (NYSE: NFG) explores for, develops and produces natural gas and crude oil reserves in Appalachia. Seneca's headquarters are located in Houston, Texas with offices in Pittsburgh, Brookville, Mansfield, Williamsport and Kane, PA. Seneca's investment activity is in the Marcellus and Utica Shales in Pennsylvania, where the company controls approximately 1.2 million net prospective acres and is one of the largest producers in the basin with approximately 1,000 wells. As an active exploration and production company in the northeastern U.S. for more than 100 years, Seneca Resources Company, LLC is committed to safety, environmental stewardship, increased productivity and maximizing shareholder value.

Job Responsibilities

The Engineer, Strategic Planning supports corporate planning, forecasting, capital allocation, and strategic decision-making through technical, economic, and analytical evaluations. The role works closely with Operations, Subsurface, Asset Development, Marketing, Finance, Investor Relations, and other functions to develop forecasts, evaluate strategic alternatives, assess investment opportunities, and support executive decision-making.

The position combines unconventional reservoir engineering, development planning, economic analysis, and data analytics to provide insight into corporate performance, capital allocation, and long-term value creation. The Engineer contributes to the continuous improvement of 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. Responsibilities include:

• 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.

Job Qualifications

• 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: asks why, digs into data and assumptions, takes initiative without waiting for direction, and learns new tools and subject areas independently.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to integrate technical, operational, commercial, and financial information into clear and actionable recommendations.
• Understanding of the relationship between asset-level decisions and 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, with the ability to communicate complex technical and economic concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to build effective working relationships across functional disciplines and to 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.
• Experience with reservoir, economic, planning, business intelligence, analytics, or data-management tools is preferred.
• Experience with Spotfire, Power BI, SQL, Python, R, ArcGIS, or similar analytical and visualization tools is preferred.
• Demonstrated interest in applying data analytics, automation, and visualization techniques to improve business processes and decision-making is preferred.
• Bachelor's Degree in Petroleum Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a closely related engineering discipline is required.
• Minimum of 5 years of upstream experience, including reservoir engineering experience in unconventional reservoirs (required), 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.
• Experience supporting annual budgets, long-range plans, corporate forecasts, investment evaluations, or strategic planning activities is preferred.
• Experience evaluating upstream acquisition, divestiture, or other strategic opportunities is preferred.
• Upstream natural gas experience is preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, own deliverables, and contribute to cross-functional projects, with interest in growing into a lead role.

Seneca Resources Company, LLC is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, protected veteran status, marital status or other protected status under federal, state or local laws.

Please note: We occasionally amend or withdraw Seneca Resources jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to the advertised closing date.

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