Sr. Staff Planning Engineer
Southwestern Energy
Oklahoma City, OK · Posted November 2, 2026
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About the job
Our core values — Stewardship, Character, Collaborate, Learn, Disrupt — are the lens through which we evaluate every business decision. As a dynamic, growing company that offers extremely competitive compensation and benefits, our employees are our most valued assets and the foundation of Expand's performance among our E&P competitors.
We seek applicants from all backgrounds to ensure we get the best, most creative talent on our team. We realize that, historically, underrepresented groups feel the need to be 100% qualified in order to apply. If you meet any combination of our requirements, we encourage you to apply. We strive to hire people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger.
Job Summary
This senior level position is considered a team lead that performs detailed aspects of engineering assignments in order to provide technical and specialized solutions to petrotechnical engineering challenges.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
Leads asset development planning and optimizes capital allocation
Defines well selection and sequencing of the drill schedule
Conducts detailed analysis of alternative development scenarios
Provides detailed analysis of midstream and commercial opportunities and ensures appropriate infrastructure investments to facilitate development plans
Defines optimal long term asset development strategy
Combines aspects and considerations from all disciplines and incorporates into a wholistic development plan
Runs detailed financial models to evaluate investment decisions and opportunities across the business
Supports re-occurring forecast process
Builds development models to evaluate future growth opportunities
Evaluates non-op proposals
Conducts analysis of A&D opportunities
Conducts peer analysis and comparisons
Performs detailed technical evaluations and provides recommendations to optimize asset development
Performs other duties as assigned
Job Specific Skills
Expertise in economic analysis and financial modeling, including the use of Aries software
Advanced knowledge of the practical application of petroleum engineering concepts - applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of the oil and gas industry
Advanced knowledge of oil and gas operations
Advanced knowledge of midstream systems, hydraulics, and commercial contracts
Advanced knowledge and practical application of volumetric calculations, decline curve reserve determinations, appropriate analogue techniques and material balance assessments
Advanced knowledge of high pressure/high temperature environments
Advanced knowledge of formation evaluation
Advanced knowledge and application of reservoir simulation techniques
Advanced knowledge of unconventional resource development
Ability to use rigorous logic, critical thinking skills and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions
Ability to incorporate considerations from all oil and gas disciplines into defining optimal development plans and decisions
Ability to effectively communicate technical analysis
Ability to lead multi-disciplinary asset development teams
Ability to incorporate and apply ML/AI techniques to facilitate analysis and decision-making
Education
Minimum: Bachelor's degree - from accredited university
Minimum: One of the following:
Bachelor’s degree - from accredited university - Engineering from an ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) program, or
Professional Engineer (PE) license, or
Master’s degree - from accredited university - Master’s of Engineering degree from a program in which the correlating Bachelor’s degree is accredited by the ABET EAC
Experience
Minimum: 8 years related work experience
Expand Energy takes necessary action to ensure that all applicants are treated without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, disability, pregnancy, military or veteran status or any other protected characteristic as established by law.
Expand Energy Corporation's operations are focused on discovering and developing its large and geographically diverse resource base of unconventional oil and natural gas assets onshore in the United States.