Front-End Planning Lead – Upstream Projects

RWDY Inc.

Spring (TX)

On-site

USD 165,000 - 186,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

RWDY Inc. in Spring, Texas is seeking an Execution Planning Advisor II (Front-End) to lead early planning and scope development for upstream unconventional well locations, facilities, and infrastructure.

You will translate objectives into clear, execution-ready scopes and partner across units to ensure a smooth handoff into execution. The role requires strong communication and cross-functional coordination, with up to 10% travel to Midland Basin locations, and a calendar aligned with standard

Qualifications

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.

Responsibilities

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Becomes trusted front-end integrator across 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.