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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.