Senior Operations Scheduling & Planning Analyst

Crescent is a differentiated U.S. energy company committed to delivering value through a disciplined returns-driven growth through acquisition strategy and consistent return of capital. Our long-life balanced portfolio combines stable cash flows from low-decline production with a deep high-quality development inventory.

Crescent is a top three producer (by gross operated production) in the Eagle Ford basin. Crescents leadership is an experienced team of investment financial and industry professionals that combines proven investment and operating expertise. For more than a decade Crescent and our predecessors have executed on a consistent strategy focused on cash flow risk management and returns.Through disciplined and accretive investments we have successfully tripled the size of our company since going public in December 2021 while maintaining a strong balance sheet.

Crescent Energy is hiring a Senior Operations Planning & Scheduling Analyst to own and continuously improve the integrated development schedule in Actenum DSO and to enable the recurring planning cadence that depends on that schedule (weekly updates scenario planning monthly schedule lock and schedule-driven reporting). This is a high-impact role on a lean planning team where accurate scheduling clean data and clear cross-functional communication directly drive forecast quality and business decisions.

You will work closely with planning engineers by asset the capital forecasting analyst OFI/tooling owners corporate database and FP&A partners and other stakeholders to ensure schedule changes are captured quickly and reliably and that the schedule feeds downstream analytics and monthly forecast processes.

The ideal candidate is highly data savvy detail-oriented and comfortable working across teams to keep schedules accurate current and decision-ready.

How This Role Fits on the Team

The Operations Planning team supports multiple assets and corporate processes. This role is the schedule schedule-driven data hub partnering daily with:

• Planning Engineers (by asset/region) for well readiness timing and development plan changes

• Capital Forecasting for timing-driven capex forecasting workflows

• Offset Frac Interference / analytics tool owners for schedule-driven downtime/impact modeling and visibility

• Corporate FP&A / reporting for consistent monthly and quarterly rollups

Core Responsibilities

1) Integrated Development Schedule in Actenum DSO

• Execute weekly schedule updates and distributions including enhanced communications and schedule views that improve stakeholder visibility (e.g. readiness links/visuals).

• Build schedule change scenarios / what-if analyses and implement approved changes including adding/removing developments or wells adjusting milestone logic durations and dependencies.

• Maintain strong relationships and communication loops with asset teams so schedule updates reflect decisions quickly and accurately.

2) Enable the Monthly Planning / Forecast Cadence (Schedule Lock Inputs)

• Support the monthly XY forecast cycle (e.g. 57 48) by locking the schedule for the reporting period and producing schedule-driven inputs used across the business.

• Run schedule exports/pulls to support downstream workflows (including OFI-related pulls model input file updates and recurring slide/report generation).

• Participate in and support the months accrual / close rhythm by ensuring schedule and supporting datasets are complete and consistent for forecast inputs and variance review.

3) Schedule-Driven Reporting KPI Tracking and Visibility

• Maintain and improve KPI tracking and planning visibility outputs (e.g. well readiness scorecards schedule-based checks/validations leadership-friendly schedule views).

• Respond to schedule-related data requests and ensure consistent definitions and trusted outputs across teams.

4) Budget & Model Refresh Support

• Support annual/periodic budget schedule lock and coordinate review/validation of schedule inputs (durations costs criteria tagging).

• Partner with stakeholders on timing/cost model refreshes that support planning and forecasting cycles.

5) Analytics Tooling & Data Enablement (Spotfire / Power BI / SQL)

• Build and maintain planning dashboards and tools (primarily Spotfire with some content rolling into Power BI) to support cycle time development visibility and reporting automation.

• Partner with IT/data teams to support reliable data flows and accessible datasets (e.g. SQL-backed sources used by dashboards and reporting tools).

• Help improve automation and reduce manual effort in the schedule-to-reporting pipeline.

6) Cross-Functional Support (Reserves IR External Notifications)

• Support schedule needs for Reserves (e.g. 5-year schedule requirements) and Investor Relations (e.g. well counts / timing inputs for external reporting).

• Support periodic uploads/communications tied to frac schedule notifications (as applicable).

7) System Upgrades & Continuous Improvement

• Lead or support periodic Actenum DSO upgrades and help drive adoption of enhanced scheduling features and new schedule views.

• Maintain a continuous improvement mindset regularly identifying enhancements to schedule structure tagging automation and stakeholder-facing outputs.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Engineering Geoscience Business Analytics or related field (or equivalent experience).

• Experience in upstream oil & gas planning scheduling development planning D&C/operations coordination or similar.

• Strong attention to detail and the ability to run weekly/monthly cadences with high data integrity.

• Strong communication skills able to coordinate across assets and functions and translate schedule changes into clear updates.

• Advanced Excel skills; comfort working with structured datasets and reconciling inconsistencies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Actenum DSO (or comparable scheduling tools).

• Experience with Spotfire and/or Power BI (dashboard creation maintenance and stakeholder-ready outputs).

• SQL experience (querying validation working with IT on datasets/refreshes).

• Familiarity with upstream planning/forecast workflows and how schedule timing feeds capital/production processes (e.g. schedule-driven capex timing and model inputs).

Crescent Energy is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race color religion gender/pregnancy gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age veteran status or any other legally protected status. Crescent Energy is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. If you require accommodation to complete the application process please let us know by contacting .