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This role builds trusted partnerships across stakeholders and helps shape projects that deliver safe, efficient, and value-focused execution.\nResponsibilities Front-End Project Development and Scope Definition Lead 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 Serve 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 Develop & 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 Develop 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 Contribute 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 The 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 Be 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 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