Job Description

About this opportunity:

Cenovus is seeking a Senior Electrical Reliability Engineer for our Lima, OH, refinery. This individual plays a critical role in ensuring the continuous and reliable operation of refinery facilities by maintaining uninterrupted electrical power to equipment, process units, and infrastructure. This role focuses on the reliability and availability of the power distribution system, including 52 substations and thousands of electrical assets such as transformers, motors, and heaters. Key responsibilities include providing engineering support for projects and turnarounds, driving reliability improvements through analysis and preventive strategies, and performing power system modeling, relay configuration and integration. The role requires strong multi-functional collaboration and domain expertise in electrical systems.

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What you’ll do:

• Project support for Electrical engineering: Design, engineering, document & drawing review, construction, System Configuration, Hazop, QA/QC, FAT, SAT, wiring, commissioning & start-up

• Reliability: Root cause analysis, Bad actor elimination, PM set up and optimization, FMEA, Cost & work analysis & optimization, Spare parts/material optimization, Obsolescence management.

• Operations & maintenance support: Diagnosing & start-up, health & safety, meet operations and maintenance requirements and align priorities accordingly.

• Power distribution – Design, engineering, maintenance, study & management: PMCS, power system study & modeling, relay, ground coordination study, arc flash study.

• Develop and review standards, guidelines, process, procedures, checklists and safe work practices.

Who you are:

• Legally authorized to work in the US.

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering (Electrical/Electronics) with 8 or more years of industrial or engineering experience in oil and gas, petrochemical, or related industry.

• Design/engineering/Construction/Solving experience on: Transformers, motors (Low, medium & high volt), Switchgears (medium & high volt), UPS, MCC, blowers, powerlines/feeders.

• Programming/configuration/SCADA, Pi integration/solving experience on: Protective relays (SEL-3/4/5/7 series, GE-4/8, UR series & MM300), adjustable speed drives (AB PowerFlex 750), real time automation controllers-RTAC (SEL-2411) and Entellisys switchgear.

• Configuration/fixing of: Software – Cimplicity (for HMI development), Kepware (OPC Server), Industrial networks (firewalls, servers, switches, gateways, GPS clocks etc.)

• Knowledge of Industry standards, guideline, practices and laws: NFPA 70E, NFPA 70B, OHSA, IEEE, NESC, NETA etc. Knowledge of Modbus TCP, Ethernet IP and SEL comm protocols.

We acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.

Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT AUGUST 22, 2025.

Internal candidates that are currently in a lower grade will be assessed based on their sustained job performance, how they demonstrate the expected organizational competency behaviors and values and in discussions with their current leader prior to determining next steps.

Cenovus was ranked one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025. We’re committed to being an employer of choice in our industry by offering a competitive total rewards package and employee programs and rewarding career development opportunities. Learn more.

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Who we are:

Cenovus is an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary. We’re committed to maximizing value by developing our assets in a safe, responsible and cost-efficient manner.

We operate in Canada, the United States and the Asia Pacific region. Our downstream operations include upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States. We are currently the largest refiner in Ohio and transport products from our refineries in Lima and Toledo, Ohio and Superior, Wisconsin via pipelines, rail cars and trucks to customers throughout the United States.

Other operations include oil sands projects in northern Alberta, thermal and conventional crude oil and natural gas projects across Western Canada, crude oil production offshore Newfoundland and Labrador and natural gas and liquids production offshore China and Indonesia.

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The Cenovus experience

Total rewards

We’re committed to being an employer of choice through competitive compensation and our comprehensive total rewards package, including:

• Generous paid vacation

• Annual bonus

• Retirement savings plan matching

• Long-term incentives

• Medical & dental coverage

• Life insurance

• Disability benefits

• Employee assistance program

• Virtual healthcare coverage

• Generous leave of absence programs

• Fitness membership reimbursement

Our development philosophy

We foster a culture of continuous learning and development to support employees as they build meaningful careers. We offer a variety of employee development initiatives, including:

• Internal course offerings

• Education assistance for additional development

• Opportunities to work on special projects

• Leadership development programs for emerging and established leaders

We actively promote internal job movement, recognizing the value of gaining new perspectives, building connections across teams, and applying expertise in new ways. As a fully integrated energy company, we believe that sharing knowledge across our business and operations creates stronger outcomes—for employees and for the company as a whole.

Our culture

• Our purpose: We energize the world to make people’s lives better.

• Our values:

  • Protect what matters

  • Do it right

  • Make it better

  • Do it together

• Cenovus Cares: We believe in the power of purpose-driven work. Our Employee Giving and Volunteering Program, Cenovus Cares, connects our people to our purpose, inspiring action and elevating impact year-round.

  • Support causes you care about with volunteer opportunities in and outside of work.

  • Earn donation grants while volunteering (up to $1,000 per event).

  • Receive donation matching up to $25,000 annually.

• Staff resource groups: We have various staff resource groups to help ensure our people feel a sense of belonging and can grow and do their best work. These voluntary groups are employee-led and all groups are open to all staff in all locations.

Equal opportunity employer

We believe a workplace where everyone has merit-based opportunities to grow, achieve career aspirations and feel a sense of belonging benefits our people, our company and the regions where we live and work. We embrace and encourage different perspectives and approaches, which help us make better business decisions. We believe that through this approach, we can solve challenges, seize opportunities and unlock innovative solutions.

To achieve an unbiased and respectful workplace, individuals are evaluated based on qualifications, merit and abilities, and we encourage applications from all qualified candidates. We also acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.

For more information about working at Cenovus, visit cenovus.com.

The requirements of this posting may be modified to support business needs. Title and compensation administration will be based on the skills and capabilities of the successful incumbent.

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If you are a CURRENT EMPLOYEE, please apply by going to our Internal Career Site.