Execution Planning Advisor II (Front-End)

• Lead early project development and scope definition for Midland Basin well pads, tank batteries, central production facilities, flowlines, gathering systems, water infrastructure, roads, power, compression, and related surface facilities.
• Progress greenfield and brownfield projects from initial concept through design-basis and execution readiness.
• Integrate subsurface development plans, well sequencing, drilling and completions schedules, facility requirements, land constraints, permitting requirements, and infrastructure availability.
• Translate business and operational requirements into clear project scopes, technical bases, schedules, cost estimates, and execution plans.
• Support front-end engineering and design activities, feasibility evaluations, concept selection, option screening, and development of project alternatives.
• Develop and steward pre-Gate 3 deliverables, technical bases, project layouts, site requirements, planning assumptions, and alignment with standard designs.
• Support Decision Quality Assurance Reviews, development roadmaps, Drill Unit Reviews, and other project-development milestones.
• Ensure projects transition effectively from front-end development into detailed engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, startup, and operations.

• Serve as the primary project-development integrator within the Midland Basin development team.
• Coordinate across Development Planning, Subsurface, Wells, Global Operations, Surface Land, Regulatory, Facilities Engineering, Project Execution, Project Controls, Procurement, and Supply Chain.
• Establish early stakeholder alignment regarding scope, schedule, cost, risk, land requirements, permitting, constructability, and execution sequencing.
• Clarify roles, responsibilities, technical interfaces, decision points, and project handoffs.
• Facilitate multidisciplinary reviews and communicate technical information, assumptions, risks, and recommendations to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Resolve competing priorities when scope, schedule, cost, risk, operational requirements, and stakeholder expectations are in tension.

• Develop project scopes involving well-pad facilities, tank batteries, separation equipment, flowlines, gathering systems, compression, produced-water systems, saltwater-disposal infrastructure, power, roads, and associated surface infrastructure.
• Evaluate facility and infrastructure options supporting capital-efficient unconventional development.
• Incorporate operability, maintainability, reliability, safety, environmental, and production requirements into the project basis.
• Coordinate facility requirements with drilling and completions timing, well sequencing, production forecasts, and development priorities.
• Support site-layout development, equipment selection, standard-design application, and identification of long-lead equipment.
• Evaluate brownfield tie-ins, infrastructure capacity, constructability, operational constraints, and opportunities to use existing assets.

• Coordinate closely with Surface Land and Regulatory personnel during site selection, layout development, access planning, and project sequencing.
• Identify surface constraints, landowner requirements, rights-of-way, access limitations, environmental considerations, and permitting requirements early in project development.
• Develop and support permitting strategies for well locations, production facilities, flowlines, gathering systems, roads, utilities, and related infrastructure.
• Ensure land, regulatory, and environmental requirements are incorporated into project scopes, schedules, cost estimates, and execution plans.
• Track permitting and land-related commitments that could affect project timing or execution readiness.

• Support the development and execution planning of multiple concurrent projects generally valued at approximately $10 million to $20 million each.
• Develop or support project cost estimates, AFEs, schedules, forecasts, cash-flow requirements, and capital-planning inputs.
• Evaluate project alternatives using cost, schedule, risk, constructability, operational, regulatory, and capital-efficiency considerations.
• Monitor project assumptions, scope changes, cost exposure, schedule risks, equipment demand, and execution constraints.
• Coordinate project priorities and interdependencies across the broader Midland Basin development portfolio.
• Provide clear project recommendations that support investment and development decisions.

• Identify technical complexity, operational interfaces, land constraints, permitting risks, equipment requirements, and potential execution barriers during front-end development.
• Support risk assessments, constructability reviews, design reviews, readiness reviews, and decision-quality activities.
• Coordinate early input regarding execution strategy, contracting, procurement, logistics, commissioning, startup, operational readiness, and simultaneous operations.
• Develop or support project workflows, stage-gate deliverables, QA/QC requirements, and documentation standards.
• Confirm that approved scope, technical requirements, assumptions, risks, costs, schedules, and stakeholder commitments are documented before project handoff.
• Provide continued stewardship and clarification during the transition from project development into execution.

• Identify process gaps, interface issues, recurring execution problems, and causes of downstream rework.
• Capture and apply lessons learned from engineering, construction, commissioning, startup, and operations.
• Support development of tools, workflows, templates, standards, and quality-control practices that improve scope quality and execution readiness.
• Compare planned project performance against actual results and incorporate findings into future development planning.
• Promote clarity, ownership, constructive challenge, and effective collaboration across the development team.

• Development Planning and Subsurface: Development concepts, well sequencing, production forecasts, economics, priorities, and infrastructure requirements
• Wells – Drilling and Completions: Well timing, pad development, facility coordination, execution sequencing, and operational interfaces
• Global Operations: Facility requirements, operational constraints, operability, maintainability, reliability, and startup readiness
• Surface Land: Site planning, access, easements, rights-of-way, landowner requirements, and surface constraints
• Regulatory and Environmental: Permitting strategies, regulatory requirements, environmental considerations, and project readiness
• Facilities and Central Engineering: Technical basis, facility design, standard-design verification, engineering assurance, and equipment requirements
• Project Execution: Constructability, execution strategy, handoff readiness, contracting, schedule assumptions, and scope clarity
• Project Controls: Cost estimating, AFE development, scheduling, forecasting, risk analysis, and capital planning
• Procurement and Supply Chain: Equipment demand, long-lead items, contracting strategies, inventory requirements, and supply planning

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a closely related technical field is required.
• Previous experience in project development, front-end planning, project engineering, or execution planning is required.
• Previous upstream facilities experience with an oil and gas operator is strongly preferred.
• Direct experience supporting upstream unconventional, onshore, or land-development projects is strongly preferred.
• Midland Basin, Delaware Basin, Permian Basin, Eagle Ford, Bakken, or comparable unconventional development experience is preferred.
• Experience integrating projects across Development Planning, Surface Land, Regulatory, Wells, Operations, Facilities Engineering, and Project Execution.
• Experience developing well pads, tank batteries, production facilities, flowlines, gathering systems, water infrastructure, compression, power, roads, or related upstream infrastructure.
• Experience managing or supporting a portfolio of concurrent capital projects, preferably projects valued at approximately $10 million to $20 million each.
• Working knowledge of project scope development, feasibility studies, concept selection, FEED, design-basis development, stage-gate processes, cost estimating, AFEs, scheduling, risk identification, and execution planning.
• Experience supporting greenfield and brownfield projects.
• Experience coordinating permitting, Surface Land, regulatory, constructability, procurement, commissioning, startup, or operational-readiness requirements.
• Ability to evaluate project alternatives and clearly communicate technical, operational, cost, schedule, and risk tradeoffs.
• Strong stakeholder-management, communication, technical-writing, analytical, and multidisciplinary coordination skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
• Experience with project-planning, engineering, project-controls, visualization, GIS, or well-management systems is beneficial.

• Functions as a trusted project-development integrator within the Midland Basin development team.
• Produces clear, complete, and aligned scopes that reduce downstream rework.
• Establishes alignment across Development Planning, Surface Land, Regulatory, Wells, Operations, Facilities, and Project Execution before projects move forward.
• Identifies technical, land, regulatory, constructability, cost, schedule, and operational risks early enough to influence decisions.
• Develops capital-efficient facility and infrastructure solutions supporting unconventional development.
• Manages competing priorities and interdependencies across a portfolio of $10–$20 million projects.
• Provides effective project handoffs with clearly documented scope, technical basis, risks, assumptions, costs, schedules, and stakeholder commitments.
• Moves projects from uncertainty to executable plans.

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