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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Execution Planning Advisor II (Front-End) - **Company:** Rwdy Inc - **Location:** Spring, TX, United States - **Salary:** $264,222.0 - **Contract:** Temporary contract - **Skills:** Microsoft Office, Front End Software Development - **Published:** August 11, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=dc2ba71f6a3736c7 ## About the Role * 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. ## Description 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., 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. ## Related Videos - [Fireside Chat with David Heinemeier Hansson](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/980-fireside-chat-with-david-heinemeier-hansson) - [Transforming Task Management: Integrating Camunda with Scalable Frontend Solutions](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1433-transforming-task-management-integrating-camunda-with-scalable-frontend-solutions) - [Next Level Enterprise Architecture: Modular, Flexible, Scalable, Multichannel and AI-Ready?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1017-next-level-enterprise-architecture-modular-flexible-scalable-multichannel-and-ai-ready) - [Building the Right Product and Building It Right: A Glimpse into Extreme Programming, Atomic Design ](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/398-building-the-right-product-and-building-it-right-a-glimpse-into-extreme-programming-atomic-design) - [But, you're not Facebook](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/378-but-you-re-not-facebook) - [Advanced Micro Frontends: Multi-Version and Multi-Framework Scenarios](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1677-advanced-micro-frontends-multi-version-and-multi-framework-scenarios) ## Related Articles - [Where to Find Entry-Level Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/397-where-to-find-entry-level-software-engineering-jobs) - [What is a web developer?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/18-what-is-a-web-developer) - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Frontend Developer Salary in Germany [2023]](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/195-frontend-developer-salary-in-germany-2023) - [What’s the Difference Between Frontend and Backend Development?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/240-what-s-the-difference-between-frontend-and-backend-development)