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This role builds trusted partnerships across stakeholders and helps shape projects that deliver safe, efficient, and value-focused execution.\nResponsibilities Evaluate and comment on discipline engineering work performed both internally and by Contractors and sub-contractors to ensure that work is being executed in accordance with Company specifications, company standards, and regulatory requirements.\nFacilitates effective execution of discipline engineering and design routines that align with the team's goals, objectives, and procedures.\nAssures accurate and timely communication among the team and other company Functions on discipline engineering activities, progress, and issues.\nIn addition to technical ability, they should demonstrate sound communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.\nParticipates in area Risk Assessment, HAZOP's, Hazard Hunts, Critical Operating Parameter Reviews.\nLead incident investigations (downtime, process safety related).\nSupport Opportunity management-identification of opportunities and development of scope of work for projects.\nRisk assessments on new facility projects, existing facilities and closure of mitigating action items.\nLead performance testing and plant-based trials.\nOperating guideline development for facilities.\nCoaching and mentoring of fellow and junior colleagues.\nFront-End Project Development and Scope Definition\nLead early planning and scoping for well pads, tank batteries, well pad facilities, flowlines, and related infrastructure from inception through design basis readiness.\nTranslate business objectives, operational needs, and technical inputs into clear, aligned, execution-ready scopes.\nSupport business unit development planning milestones including decision quality assurance reviews (Roadmaps) and drill unit reviews (DUR) ensuring smooth transition into project execution.\nLead Integrator Across Stakeholders\nServe as the front-end integrator across Business Unit, Global Operations (GO), Wells (D&C), Project Execution, Central Engineering, Surface Land, Regulatory, Project Controls, and Supply Chain.\nBuild trusted partnerships and align stakeholders early to reduce rework, clarify handoffs, and improve decision quality.\nFrame tradeoffs & options for stakeholders when scope, schedule, cost, risk, and stakeholder expectations are in tension.\nValue Creation and Decision Quality\nDevelop & evaluate infrastructure options to support capital-efficient, value-focused project recommendations for development scenarios to inform subsurface decisions.\nPartner with business, reservoir, operations, and project controls teams to support informed scoping and investment decisions.\nTechnical Basis, Planning, and Execution Readiness\nDevelop and steward pre-Gate 3 technical basis, project layouts, site requirements, permitting strategies, planning assumptions, and standard design alignment.\nCoordinate early input for regulatory, land, permitting, constructability, equipment demand, inventory forecasting, and execution planning.\nProvide stewardship and coordination to enable smooth project handoff into execution.\nContinuous Improvement and Team Effectiveness\nContribute to a collaborative team culture built on clarity, ownership, constructive challenge, and trusted partnership.\nIdentify process gaps, interface issues, and rework drivers across the front-end development process.\nSupport development of tools, workflows, and standards that improve scope quality, consistency, and execution readiness.\nKey Relationships / Interfaces\nThe Project Development Engineer works across a broad set of stakeholders, including:\nSubsurface / Development Planning: Development concepts/priorities, well sequencing, resource plans, and economics\nGlobal Operations: Facility operational requirements, constraints, operability, and maintenance considerations\nSurface Land / Regulatory: Site planning, permitting strategy, access, constraints, and regulatory readiness\nIntegrated Operations Planning & Scheduling (IOPS): Drilling & Completions well timing, planning task milestone compliance\nWells (Drilling / Completions): Well planning interfaces, development timing, pad / facility coordination, and execution sequencing\nProject Execution: Handoff readiness, constructability, execution planning, schedule assumptions, and scope clarity\nCentral Engineering: Standard design verification, technical basis support, and engineering guidance\nProject Controls: Cost, schedule, and capital efficiency support\nProcurement / Supply Chain: Equipment demand/planning and inventory requirements\nWhat Success Looks Like\nBe recognized as a trusted front-end integrator across the organization.\nDevelop clear, aligned scopes that reduce downstream rework and improve execution readiness.\nCreate stakeholder alignment before projects move into execution.\nHelp the business make better development decisions through option evaluation, capital efficiency, and value-based tradeoffs.\nBring clarity to ambiguous problems and help move the team from uncertainty to executable plans.\nQualifications Must have a BS degree in Engineering or related technical studies\nPrior experience in Project Development, Execution and Planning activities (upstream unconventional is preferred)\nStrong communication and stakeholder management skills.5\nProficient in Microsoft Office programs\nMust meet conditional job offer requirements\n\n#J-18808-Ljbffr","company":"Danos","rawCompany":"danos","city":"Austin","state":"TX","isRemote":false,"isActive":true,"createdAt":"2026-10-29T04:00:38.006Z","occupations":[{"code":"13-1082.00","title":"Project Management Specialists","slug":"project-management-specialists"},{"code":"17-2199.00","title":"Engineers, All Other","slug":"engineers-all-other"},{"code":"11-9041.00","title":"Architectural and Engineering Managers","slug":"architectural-and-engineering-managers"}],"industries":[{"code":"211120","title":"Crude Petroleum 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This role builds trusted partnerships across stakeholders and helps shape projects that deliver safe, efficient, and value-focused execution.\nResponsibilities Evaluate and comment on discipline engineering work performed both internally and by Contractors and sub-contractors to ensure that work is being executed in accordance with Company specifications, company standards, and regulatory requirements.\nFacilitates effective execution of discipline engineering and design routines that align with the team's goals, objectives, and procedures.\nAssures accurate and timely communication among the team and other company Functions on discipline engineering activities, progress, and issues.\nIn addition to technical ability, they should demonstrate sound communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills.\nParticipates in area Risk Assessment, HAZOP's, Hazard Hunts, Critical Operating Parameter Reviews.\nLead incident investigations (downtime, process safety related).\nSupport Opportunity 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