Strategic Planning Engineer – Drilling & Completions

Permian Resources; Midland (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Permian Resources in Midland, Texas is seeking a Planning Engineer to support and maintain the drill and frac schedule across the asset portfolio. You will coordinate with operations, budgeting and planning, subsurface, land, midstream and regulatory teams to ensure timely and efficient capital program execution.

The role emphasizes strong analytical and communication skills, with experience in Databricks/SQL/Python to build dashboards and perform scenario analyses for planning.

Qualifications

• Bachelors of Science in Engineering required.
• 5+ years of petroleum engineering experience in upstream oil & gas.
• Experience with Databricks or similar data platforms (SQL, Python) and BI tools.
• Proficiency with planning software (Actenum DSO, Enersight, Aries, PHDwin).
• Experience applying AI/LLM tools to streamline planning, scheduling or data analysis is a plus.
• Strong multi-discipline process knowledge and cross-functional collaboration.
• Excellent analytical, written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Generate and optimize the drill and completion schedule with cross-functional teams.
• Coordinate with operations, budgeting/planning, subsurface, land, midstream, marketing and regulatory teams to ensure timely capital program execution.
• Provide technical support on development plans to keep execution on track and identify efficiency gains.
• Drive continuous improvement in planning workflows using new data and technology for better planning accuracy and communication.
• Support scenario analysis to evaluate different capital programs under changing constraints and economics.

Skills

Petroleum engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Written and verbal communication

AI/LLM tools for planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

Databricks

SQL

Python

Spotfire

Power BI

Actenum DSO

Enersight

Aries

PHDwin

Job description

Permian Resources in Midland, Texas is seeking a Planning Engineer to support and maintain the drill and frac schedule across the asset portfolio. You will coordinate with operations, budgeting and planning, subsurface, land, midstream and regulatory teams to ensure timely and efficient capital program execution.

The role emphasizes strong analytical and communication skills, with experience in Databricks/SQL/Python to build dashboards and perform scenario analyses for planning.