RWDY Inc

Execution Planning Advisor II (Front-End)

Spring, TX - Full Time

Job Title
Execution Planning Advisor II (Front-End)
Compensation
$127.03/hr
Location
Spring, TX 77389
Schedule
Monday–Friday, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Approximately 10% travel to Midland Basin field locations
Target Start Date
ASAP
Tentative End Date
One year from start date
Scope
The Project Development Engineer serves as the front-end integrator for greenfield and brownfield upstream unconventional well locations, facilities, and infrastructure. This position translates business objectives, operational requirements, and technical inputs into clear, aligned, execution-ready project scopes. The role builds trusted partnerships across stakeholder groups and helps shape projects that support safe, efficient, and value-focused execution.
Key Responsibilities
Front-End Project Development and Scope Definition
  • Lead early planning and scope development for well pads, tank batteries, well pad facilities, flowlines, and associated infrastructure from project inception through design-basis readiness.
  • Translate business objectives, operational needs, and technical inputs into clear and execution-ready scopes.
  • Support business-unit development planning milestones, including Decision Quality Assurance Reviews/Roadmaps and Drill Unit Reviews.
  • Ensure projects transition smoothly from front-end development into execution.
Stakeholder Integration
  • Serve as the front-end integrator across the Business Unit, Global Operations, Wells/Drilling and Completions, Project Execution, Central Engineering, Surface Land, Regulatory, Project Controls, and Supply Chain teams.
  • Establish alignment early to reduce rework, clarify handoffs, and improve decision quality.
  • Frame options and tradeoffs when scope, schedule, cost, risk, and stakeholder expectations compete.
Value Creation and Decision Quality
  • Develop and evaluate infrastructure options supporting capital-efficient, value-focused development scenarios.
  • Provide project recommendations that help inform subsurface and development decisions.
  • Partner with business, reservoir, operations, engineering, and project controls personnel to support informed scoping and investment decisions.
Technical Basis, Planning, and Execution Readiness
  • Develop and steward pre-Gate 3 technical bases, project layouts, site requirements, permitting strategies, planning assumptions, and alignment with standard designs.
  • Coordinate early input regarding regulatory requirements, surface land, permitting, constructability, equipment demand, inventory forecasting, and execution planning.
  • Provide the coordination and stewardship needed for an effective project handoff into execution.
Continuous Improvement and Team Effectiveness
  • Contribute to a collaborative team culture centered on clarity, ownership, constructive challenge, and trusted partnerships.
  • Identify process gaps, interface issues, and sources of rework within the front-end development process.
  • Support the development of tools, workflows, and standards that improve scope quality, consistency, and execution readiness.
Key Relationships and Interfaces
  • Subsurface/Development Planning: Development concepts, priorities, well sequencing, resource plans, and economics
  • Global Operations: Facility requirements, operational constraints, operability, and maintenance considerations
  • Surface Land/Regulatory: Site planning, access, constraints, permitting strategy, and regulatory readiness
  • Integrated Operations Planning and Scheduling: Drilling and completions timing and planning-milestone compliance
  • Wells—Drilling and Completions: Well-planning interfaces, development timing, pad and facility coordination, and execution sequencing
  • Project Execution: Handoff readiness, constructability, execution planning, schedule assumptions, and scope clarity
  • Central Engineering: Standard-design verification, technical-basis support, and engineering guidance
  • Project Controls: Cost, schedule, and capital-efficiency support
  • Procurement/Supply Chain: Equipment demand, inventory requirements, and supply planning
What Success Looks Like
  • Becomes a trusted front-end integrator across the organization.
  • Develops clear and aligned scopes that reduce downstream rework and improve execution readiness.
  • Establishes stakeholder alignment before projects enter execution.
  • Improves development decisions through option evaluation, capital efficiency, and value-based tradeoffs.
  • Brings clarity to ambiguous problems and moves projects from uncertainty to executable plans.
Job Prerequisites
  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical field is required.
  • Previous experience with project development, execution, and planning activities is required.
  • Upstream unconventional project experience is preferred.
  • Strong communication, stakeholder-management, and cross-functional coordination skills.
  • Ability to evaluate project options and communicate scope, cost, schedule, and risk tradeoffs.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
Interview Process
30-minute Zoom meet-and-greet.

 
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