We are looking for a highly independent engineer who thrives in ambiguous environments, proactively identifies opportunities, challenges conventional thinking, and drives initiatives from concept through executive recommendation with minimal supervision.
This position is based on site at our Marcellus Business Unit office in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Proactively identify, evaluate, and champion acquisition, leasing, and joint venture opportunities capable of materially expanding Devon’s Appalachian inventory position
Lead multidisciplinary evaluations with geoscience, operations, and land teams supporting acquisition opportunities and field development plans
Develop and recommend field development plans, well spacing strategies and completion designs to maximize long-term asset value
Conduct well performance analysis, pressure interpretation, volumetric calculations, recovery method assessments, and production decline curve evaluations
Perform economic analysis of field development programs and acquisition and leasing opportunities using Excel, ARIES, ComboCurve and AI tools
Gather, organize, and interpret large datasets to define reservoir characteristics and generate technically grounded well performance predictions
Evaluate Lease Operating Expenses (LOE) and operational costs for accuracy and alignment with asset performance
Lead special projects as needed, including advanced reservoir characterization and generation of various basin-wide well performance models
Create decision-ready technical and economic narratives that enable rapid executive decision-making
Maintain a basin-wide perspective on operator activity, valuation trends, acreage availability, and emerging development opportunities across the Appalachian Basin
Mentor and develop junior engineers
Skills and Experience
Proven success supporting acquisitions, divestitures, acreage trades, joint ventures, and large-scale strategic transactions
Demonstrated experience leading field development plans, optimizing well spacing and completion designs, and making capital allocation recommendations
Strong understanding of upstream valuation methodologies and asset transaction processes
Advanced use of ARIES, Spotfire, ComboCurve, Whitson+ and Excel for technical and economic evaluations
Experience leveraging AI and machine learning tools to identify opportunities, accelerate asset evaluations, and improve decision quality
Extensive experience with reservoir engineering methods, including material balance, rate transient analysis, volumetric calculations, and type curve generation
Demonstrated understanding of Appalachian Basin geology, well performance, spacing, and competitive operator activity preferred
Advanced capability in analyzing large datasets with robust statistical and machine learning workflows
Demonstrated ability to create executive-level investment recommendations for acquisition or capital allocation decisions
Demonstrated ownership, initiative, and bias for action, with the ability to operate independently while building alignment across technical and commercial disciplines
Education Requirements
Bachelor’s degree required: Petroleum, Chemical, Mechanical Engineering or closely related field
MS Finance, MS Economics or MBA preferred
Years of Experience
8+ years of experience in reservoir engineering or related technical discipline preferred
Investment banking, private equity, corporate development, or business development experience preferred
Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran or other characteristics protected by law.
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