Brownfield Verification and Facility Reuse
- Support the Project Development Engineer by verifying existing brownfield facility conditions, constraints, capacities, and opportunities for reuse.
- Engage Operations to identify facility considerations, operability concerns, maintainability needs, and limitations if existing facilities are used for new production.
- Document brownfield verification findings, including impacted systems, tie-in feasibility, facility boundaries, shutdown requirements, and constraints.
Execution Planning and Constructability
- Develop initial execution plans for well pads, tank batteries, facilities, flowlines, tie-ins, and related infrastructure
- Develop detailed pipeline routes and engage Construction to identify constructability concerns, routing risks, access needs, and execution constraints.
- Identify execution risks, demolition needs, shutdown requirements, sequencing considerations, and field conditions that may impact scope, schedule, cost, or safety.
Technical Basis and Field Documentation
- Develop redline P&IDs, plot plans, preliminary routing layouts, tie-in point identification, and field-based planning documentation for brownfield scope.
- Support standard design verification by confirming project concepts align with existing facility conditions, applicable standards, and execution assumptions.
Safety, Permitting, and Execution Readiness
- Perform early process safety risk screenings to identify potential hazards, design considerations, operating impacts, and risk management needs.
- Support Gate Review inputs, Design and Execution Plan development, change documentation, and execution readiness deliverables.
Continuous Improvement and Team Effectiveness
- Contribute to a collaborative team culture built on clarity, ownership, constructive challenge, and trusted partnership.
- Contribute to process improvements that reduce rework, improve handoffs, and strengthen execution readiness.
Key Relationships / Interfaces
The Execution Planning Engineer works across a broad set of stakeholders, including:
- Project Development Engineer: Brownfield verification, facility reuse options, routing, tie-ins, execution assumptions, and design basis support
- Global Operations: Facility conditions, operability, maintainability, shutdown needs, equipment limitations, and reuse considerations
- Construction: Constructability, routing, access, tie-ins, demolition, sequencing, and execution feasibility
- Project Engineer (Execution): Handoff readiness, execution planning, constructability concerns, schedule assumptions, and transition after Gate 3
- Central Engineering: Technical basis support, drawing verification, standard design alignment, risk screening, and engineering guidance
- Surface Land / Regulatory: Permitting, right-of-way, access, land constraints, and regulatory readiness
- Project Controls: Cost, schedule, planning assumptions, and execution readiness forecasting
- Procurement / Supply Chain: Equipment demand, long-lead equipment, inventory availability, and material readiness
What Success Looks Like
A successful Execution Planning Engineer will:
- Identify brownfield facility constraints, reuse opportunities, and execution risks early enough to influence scope decisions.
- Deliver reliable field verification packages, redline P&IDs, plot plans, routing layouts, tie-in identification, and execution planning inputs.
- Engage Operations and Construction early to improve operability, constructability, safety, and execution readiness.
- Enable a smooth handoff to Project Execution by clarifying risks, assumptions, constraints, and readiness requirements.