Permian Reservoir Engineer: Growth, Forecasting & Strategy

Crescent Energy Management LLC; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Crescent Energy seeks a Reservoir Engineer to support asset development and portfolio growth across unconventional assets, initially focusing on West Texas/Permian Basin. This role applies reservoir engineering, economic analysis, and competitive intelligence to evaluate acreage, leasing, trade, development, and other growth opportunities.

You will work closely with Land, Geoscience, Investments, and asset leadership, delivering technically credible recommendations with incomplete information

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Petroleum Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
• Typically 5–15 years of upstream experience with reservoir engineering fundamentals.
• Experience evaluating unconventional reservoirs via forecasting, decline, rate-transient analysis, analogs, and economics.
• Strong proficiency in ARIES for economic evaluation and decline-curve analysis.
• Proficiency with Whitson+ or comparable production-analysis and RTA software.
• Experience using Spotfire, PowerBI or similar analytical tools.
• Ability to develop clear, defensible recommendations from incomplete information.
• Strong communication skills and a team-first mindset.

Responsibilities

• Apply Crescent’s basin playbooks, forecast maps, type curves, and economic assumptions to assets under evaluation.
• Develop fit-for-purpose production forecasts and economic evaluations for acreage, trades, leasing, and development scenarios.
• Use analytical tools to assess well performance, inventory potential, development timing, costs, and sensitivities.
• Partner with Land, Geoscience, and Investments to identify and prioritize opportunities.
• Evaluate leases/trades for improvements in interest, lateral length, and asset value.
• Monitor competitor activity, well results, permits, and transactions for Crescent.
• Communicate assumptions, risks, and recommendations to technical and leadership audiences.
• Manage multiple evaluations with rigor and speed to support timely decisions.

Skills

Reservoir engineering

ARIES

Whitson+

RTA software

Spotfire

PowerBI

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Forecasting

Decline analysis

Education

Petroleum Engineering degree

Tools

Whitson+

Spotfire

PowerBI

Job description

Crescent Energy seeks a Reservoir Engineer to support asset development and portfolio growth across unconventional assets, initially focusing on West Texas/Permian Basin. This role applies reservoir engineering, economic analysis, and competitive intelligence to evaluate acreage, leasing, trade, development, and other growth opportunities.

You will work closely with Land, Geoscience, Investments, and asset leadership, delivering technically credible recommendations with incomplete information