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This position translates business objectives, operational requirements, and technical inputs into clear, aligned, execution-ready project scopes.\n\nThe 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.\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\nFront-End Project Development and Scope Definition\n\nLead 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.\nProgress projects from initial concept through design-basis and execution readiness.\nTranslate business objectives, operational needs, subsurface plans, and technical inputs into clear, complete, and execution-ready scopes.\nDevelop and coordinate front-end engineering and design activities, feasibility assessments, project alternatives, and technical-basis documentation.\nSupport business-unit development-planning milestones, including Decision Quality Assurance Reviews/Roadmaps and Drill Unit Reviews.\nEnsure projects transition smoothly from front-end development into detailed engineering, construction, commissioning, startup, and operations.\n\nStakeholder Integration\n\nServe 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.\nCoordinate technical and operational interfaces between Wells, surface facilities, production operations, infrastructure, and project-execution teams.\nEstablish stakeholder alignment early to reduce rework, clarify responsibilities and handoffs, and improve decision quality.\nFacilitate multidisciplinary reviews and communicate technical information, risks, assumptions, and recommendations to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.\nFrame alternatives and tradeoffs when scope, schedule, cost, risk, constructability, regulatory requirements, and stakeholder expectations compete.\n\nValue Creation and Decision Quality\n\nDevelop and evaluate facility and infrastructure alternatives supporting capital-efficient, value-focused development scenarios.\nPrepare technical recommendations that help inform subsurface, development, sequencing, and investment decisions.\nSupport preparation and evaluation of project cost estimates, AFEs, schedules, equipment requirements, and execution strategies.\nMonitor project assumptions, costs, schedule risks, and potential scope changes during front-end development.\nIdentify opportunities to reduce capital spending, operating costs, execution risks, downtime, and unnecessary project complexity.\nPartner with business, reservoir, operations, engineering, and project-controls personnel to support informed scoping and investment decisions.\n\nTechnical Basis, Risk Management, and Execution Readiness\n\nDevelop and steward pre-Gate 3 technical bases, project layouts, site requirements, permitting strategies, planning assumptions, and alignment with standard designs.\nCoordinate early input regarding regulatory requirements, surface land, environmental constraints, permitting, constructability, equipment demand, inventory forecasting, and execution planning.\nIdentify technical complexity, operational interfaces, project risks, and potential execution constraints during the planning phase.\nSupport risk assessments, constructability reviews, design reviews, readiness reviews, and other decision-quality activities.\nDevelop or support project workflows, stage-gate deliverables, QA/QC processes, and documentation requirements.\nCoordinate commissioning, startup, operational-readiness, and SIMOPS considerations during front-end planning.\nProvide the coordination and technical stewardship needed for an effective project handoff into execution.\nConfirm that approved scope, technical requirements, assumptions, risks, costs, schedules, and stakeholder commitments are clearly documented before handoff.\n\nRegulatory and Permitting Coordination\n\nSupport development and implementation of permitting strategies for upstream well locations, production facilities, flowlines, gathering infrastructure, access, and related project components.\nCoordinate with regulatory, environmental, surface land, engineering, and operations personnel to identify requirements and constraints early.\nTrack permitting inputs and regulatory commitments that could affect project scope, schedule, cost, or execution sequencing.\nEnsure regulatory and permitting considerations are incorporated into the project basis and execution plan.\n\nContinuous Improvement and Team Effectiveness\n\nContribute to a collaborative team culture centered on clarity, ownership, constructive challenge, and trusted partnerships.\nIdentify process gaps, interface issues, recurring execution problems, and sources of rework within the front-end development process.\nCapture and communicate lessons learned from project development, construction, commissioning, startup, and operations.\nSupport development of tools, workflows, templates, standards, and quality-control practices that improve scope quality, consistency, and execution readiness.\nPromote continuous improvement through benchmarking, performance reviews, and comparison of planned results against actual project outcomes.\nProvide technical guidance, coaching, and knowledge sharing to less-experienced team members when needed.\nKey Relationships and Interfaces\nSubsurface/Development Planning: Development concepts, priorities, well sequencing, resource plans, economics, and infrastructure requirements\nGlobal Operations: Facility requirements, operational constraints, operability, maintainability, commissioning, startup, and maintenance considerations\nSurface Land/Regulatory: Site planning, access, constraints, permitting strategy, environmental requirements, and regulatory readiness\nIntegrated Operations Planning and Scheduling: Drilling and completions timing, development sequencing, project dependencies, and planning-milestone compliance\nWells—Drilling and Completions: Well-planning interfaces, development timing, pad and facility coordination, execution sequencing, SIMOPS, and operational risks\nProject Execution: Handoff readiness, constructability, execution planning, commissioning, schedule assumptions, and scope clarity\nCentral Engineering: Standard-design verification, technical-basis support, engineering assurance, design reviews, and technical guidance\nProject Controls: Cost estimating, AFE development, schedule development, forecasting, risk analysis, and capital-efficiency support\nProcurement/Supply Chain: Equipment demand, long-lead items, inventory requirements, contracting strategies, and supply planning\nWhat Success Looks Like\nBecomes a trusted front-end integrator across the organization.\nDevelops clear, complete, and aligned scopes that reduce downstream rework and improve execution readiness.\nEstablishes stakeholder alignment before projects enter execution.\nIdentifies permitting, land, technical, constructability, cost, schedule, and operational risks early enough to influence project decisions.\nImproves development decisions through option evaluation, capital efficiency, and value-based tradeoffs.\nProduces effective project handoffs with clearly documented scope, technical basis, risks, assumptions, schedules, costs, and stakeholder commitments.\nBrings clarity to ambiguous problems and moves projects from uncertainty to executable plans.\nUses lessons learned and performance feedback to improve future project-development workflows and outcomes.\nJob Prerequisites\nBachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical field is required.\nPrevious experience with project development, front-end planning, project execution, or engineering activities is required.\nExperience developing projects through feasibility, concept selection, FEED, design-basis, or stage-gate readiness is strongly preferred.\nUpstream oil and gas experience involving production facilities, well pads, tank batteries, flowlines, gathering systems, or associated infrastructure is preferred.\nUpstream unconventional development experience is strongly preferred.\nExperience supporting greenfield and brownfield projects is preferred.\nWorking knowledge of project scope development, cost estimating, AFE preparation, scheduling, risk identification, and execution planning.\nExperience coordinating regulatory, permitting, surface land, constructability, commissioning, startup, or operational-readiness requirements is preferred.\nAbility to evaluate project alternatives and clearly communicate scope, cost, schedule, technical, operational, and execution-risk tradeoffs.\nStrong communication, stakeholder-management, and multidisciplinary coordination skills.\nStrong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and technical-writing abilities.\nExperience with QA/QC workflows, readiness reviews, lessons learned, and continuous-improvement processes is preferred.\nProficiency with Microsoft Office applications.\nExperience with engineering, planning, project-controls, visualization, or well-management software is beneficial.\n\nInterview Process\n30-minute Zoom meet-and-greet.\nT8KR0JJeJ3","company":"Rwdyinc","rawCompany":"rwdyinc","city":"Big Spring","state":"TX","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-19T18:45:56.367Z","occupations":[{"code":"13-1082.00","title":"Project Management Specialists","slug":"project-management-specialists"},{"code":"17-2171.00","title":"Petroleum Engineers","slug":"petroleum-engineers"},{"code":"17-2199.00","title":"Engineers, All Other","slug":"engineers-all-other"}],"industries":[{"code":"211120","title":"Crude Petroleum Extraction","slug":"crude-petroleum-extraction"},{"code":"213112","title":"Support Activities for Oil and Gas Operations","slug":"support-activities-for-oil-and-gas-operations"},{"code":"541330","title":"Engineering 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This position translates business objectives, operational requirements, and technical inputs into clear, aligned, execution-ready project scopes.\n\nThe 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.\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\nFront-End Project Development and Scope Definition\n\nLead 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.\nProgress projects from initial concept through design-basis and execution readiness.\nTranslate business objectives, operational needs, subsurface plans, and technical inputs into clear, complete, and execution-ready scopes.\nDevelop and coordinate front-end engineering and design activities, feasibility assessments, project alternatives, and technical-basis documentation.\nSupport business-unit development-planning milestones, including Decision Quality Assurance Reviews/Roadmaps and Drill Unit Reviews.\nEnsure projects transition smoothly from front-end development into detailed engineering, construction, commissioning, startup, and operations.\n\nStakeholder Integration\n\nServe 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.\nCoordinate technical and operational interfaces between Wells, surface facilities, production operations, infrastructure, and project-execution teams.\nEstablish stakeholder alignment early to reduce rework, clarify responsibilities and handoffs, and improve decision quality.\nFacilitate multidisciplinary reviews and communicate technical information, risks, assumptions, and recommendations to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.\nFrame alternatives and tradeoffs when scope, schedule, cost, risk, constructability, regulatory requirements, and stakeholder expectations compete.\n\nValue Creation and Decision Quality\n\nDevelop and evaluate facility and infrastructure alternatives supporting capital-efficient, value-focused development scenarios.\nPrepare technical recommendations that help inform subsurface, development, sequencing, and investment decisions.\nSupport preparation and evaluation of project cost estimates, AFEs, schedules, equipment requirements, and execution strategies.\nMonitor project assumptions, costs, schedule risks, and potential scope changes during front-end development.\nIdentify opportunities to reduce capital spending, operating costs, execution risks, downtime, and unnecessary project complexity.\nPartner with business, reservoir, operations, engineering, and project-controls personnel to support informed scoping and investment decisions.\n\nTechnical Basis, Risk Management, and Execution Readiness\n\nDevelop and steward pre-Gate 3 technical bases, project layouts, site requirements, permitting strategies, planning assumptions, and alignment with standard designs.\nCoordinate early input regarding regulatory requirements, surface land, environmental constraints, permitting, constructability, equipment demand, inventory forecasting, and execution planning.\nIdentify technical complexity, operational interfaces, project risks, and potential execution constraints during the planning phase.\nSupport risk assessments, constructability reviews, design reviews, readiness reviews, and other decision-quality activities.\nDevelop or support project workflows, stage-gate deliverables, QA/QC processes, and documentation requirements.\nCoordinate commissioning, startup, operational-readiness, and SIMOPS considerations during front-end planning.\nProvide the coordination and technical stewardship needed for an effective project handoff into execution.\nConfirm that approved scope, technical requirements, assumptions, risks, costs, schedules, and stakeholder commitments are clearly documented before handoff.\n\nRegulatory and Permitting Coordination\n\nSupport development and implementation of permitting strategies for upstream well locations, production facilities, flowlines, gathering infrastructure, access, and related project components.\nCoordinate with regulatory, environmental, surface land, engineering, and operations personnel to identify requirements and constraints early.\nTrack permitting inputs and regulatory commitments that could affect project scope, schedule, cost, or execution sequencing.\nEnsure regulatory and permitting considerations are incorporated into the project basis and execution plan.\n\nContinuous Improvement and Team Effectiveness\n\nContribute to a collaborative team culture centered on clarity, ownership, constructive challenge, and trusted partnerships.\nIdentify process gaps, interface issues, recurring execution problems, and sources of rework within the front-end development process.\nCapture and communicate lessons learned from project development, construction, commissioning, startup, and operations.\nSupport development of tools, workflows, templates, standards, and quality-control practices that improve scope quality, consistency, and execution readiness.\nPromote continuous improvement through benchmarking, performance reviews, and comparison of planned results against actual project outcomes.\nProvide technical guidance, coaching, and knowledge sharing to less-experienced team members when needed.\nKey Relationships and Interfaces\nSubsurface/Development Planning: Development concepts, priorities, well sequencing, resource plans, economics, and infrastructure requirements\nGlobal Operations: Facility requirements, operational constraints, operability, maintainability, commissioning, startup, and maintenance considerations\nSurface Land/Regulatory: Site planning, access, constraints, permitting strategy, environmental requirements, and regulatory readiness\nIntegrated Operations Planning and Scheduling: Drilling and completions timing, development sequencing, project dependencies, and planning-milestone compliance\nWells—Drilling and Completions: Well-planning interfaces, development timing, pad and facility coordination, execution sequencing, SIMOPS, and operational risks\nProject Execution: Handoff readiness, constructability, execution planning, commissioning, schedule assumptions, and scope clarity\nCentral Engineering: Standard-design verification, technical-basis support, engineering assurance, design reviews, and technical guidance\nProject Controls: Cost estimating, AFE development, schedule development, forecasting, risk analysis, and capital-efficiency support\nProcurement/Supply Chain: Equipment demand, long-lead items, inventory requirements, contracting strategies, and supply planning\nWhat Success Looks Like\nBecomes a trusted front-end integrator across the organization.\nDevelops clear, complete, and aligned scopes that reduce downstream rework and improve execution readiness.\nEstablishes stakeholder alignment before projects enter execution.\nIdentifies permitting, land, technical, constructability, cost, schedule, and operational risks early enough to influence project decisions.\nImproves development decisions through option evaluation, capital efficiency, and value-based tradeoffs.\nProduces effective project handoffs with clearly documented scope, technical basis, risks, assumptions, schedules, costs, and stakeholder commitments.\nBrings clarity to ambiguous problems and moves projects from uncertainty to executable plans.\nUses lessons learned and performance feedback to improve future project-development workflows and outcomes.\nJob Prerequisites\nBachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical field is required.\nPrevious experience with project development, front-end planning, project execution, or engineering activities is required.\nExperience developing projects through feasibility, concept selection, FEED, design-basis, or stage-gate readiness is strongly preferred.\nUpstream oil and gas experience involving production facilities, well pads, tank batteries, flowlines, gathering systems, or associated infrastructure is preferred.\nUpstream unconventional development experience is strongly preferred.\nExperience supporting greenfield and brownfield projects is preferred.\nWorking knowledge of project scope development, cost estimating, AFE preparation, scheduling, risk identification, and execution planning.\nExperience coordinating regulatory, permitting, surface land, constructability, commissioning, startup, or operational-readiness requirements is preferred.\nAbility to evaluate project alternatives and clearly communicate scope, cost, schedule, technical, operational, and execution-risk tradeoffs.\nStrong communication, stakeholder-management, and multidisciplinary coordination skills.\nStrong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and technical-writing abilities.\nExperience with QA/QC workflows, readiness reviews, lessons learned, and continuous-improvement processes is preferred.\nProficiency with Microsoft Office applications.\nExperience with engineering, planning, project-controls, visualization, or well-management software is beneficial.\n\nInterview Process\n30-minute Zoom meet-and-greet.\nT8KR0JJeJ3","datePosted":"2026-08-19T18:45:56.367Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T18:45:56.367Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Rwdyinc","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Big Spring","addressRegion":"TX","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"449d3e8d9a2a19c10cbbf8f9"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/449d3e8d9a2a19c10cbbf8f9"}}