Job Description

About this opportunity:

The role of the Staff Site Operations Engineer contributes to Cenovus’s production goals by optimizing value and profitability from surface assets. The role is accountable for:

• Resolving health, safety, environmental, and regulatory problems and keeping surface assets producing

• Enhancing plant performance, optimizing plant profitability, identifying bottlenecks, driving solutions with appropriate teams, and ensuring value accretive decisions are made on a continual basis

• Stewarding or contributing to key business processes / strategic initiatives, and technical stewardship as well as leading and developing site team members

The role supports the Lloydminster Thermal district which includes SAGD processing facilities with raw water producing assets and distribution network. The role regularly collaborates with on-site or remote teams (such as Operations, Production Engineering, Development Engineering, Capital Projects Process Engineering, iSTO, Facilities Engineering, other engineering disciplines and Maintenance). As such, this role requires proficiency in managing relationships and expectations across many different teams as well as remotely, across geographic locations.

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Work Environment:

• This position is located in Lloydminster and requires the successful candidate to live in the area

What you’ll do:

• Ensure the Thermal SAGD facilities are optimized for maximum throughput within their Safe Operating Limits (through monitoring and optimizing facility performance, debottleneck identification and scoping of new projects, solving plant issues that are production impacting and extremely time sensitive, and minimizing OpEx costs through process optimization)

• Steward or contribute to key business processes and initiatives (Monthly Production Reporting, Lost Production Allocation, Production Threat Management, Thermal Raw Water Management, Safe Operating Limits, TECH Meetings, Fluid Sample Management, Threat Assessment Process, iSTO)

• Manage high-priority commitments by doing the work themselves while leading and technically stewarding a team of 1-3 site operations process engineers. Responsible for ensuring effective prioritization and efficient workload distribution between themselves and their team members to meet objectives across the district

• Collaborate with the Operations Process Engineering Technical team to uphold and reinforces standards of practice and technical principles/approaches with direct reports and peers)

• Support quantification of process safety and business risk through operational risk assessments

• Complete process safety event release calculations to quantify release volumes and categorize Process Safety Events for the Cenovus corporate scorecard. Support process safety event incident investigations

• Support annual process safety review programs (ex. revalidation HAZOPs) and action item resolution

• Support regulatory and emissions compliance by providing guidance on venting and flaring. Support the Enhanced Production Audit Program (process engineering estimates, monthly or quarterly gas sample verification, audits)

• Support annual turnaround and outage planning (including budgeting) and providing process engineering support

• Support delivery of the long-range plan by supporting Capital Projects Process Engineering front-end scoping

• Support failure investigations

• Identify and drive continuous improvement

• Complete and steward engineering work in alignment with the Cenovus professional practice management plan

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

• Legally authorized to work in Canada

• Post-secondary in Chemical Engineering or relevant

• P. Eng. designation from APEGS

• 12+ years relevant experience

• Advanced skills in SAGD with significant knowledge in Operations Process Engineering supported by a strong understanding of upstream process, equipment, and other core SAGD functions

• Proven experience in core process engineering functions such as: process simulations, control valve sizing, PSV/PVRV sizing, line sizing, vessel/HEX sizing/performance, pump curves/sizing/performance, determination of bottlenecks, benchmarking, etc.

• Advanced knowledge of regulatory and code requirements and how to operate the facilities within our Safe Operating Limits (SOLs)

• Previous leadership experience overseeing a team of engineers

• Proficient in fields such as Production Engineering, Development Engineering, Major Projects Process Engineering Design, Facility Engineering

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

As this position has been identified as safety sensitive, employment of a final candidate selected for this position will be conditional upon successful completion of required pre-employment medical and alcohol/drug assessments

For this position you will be required to maintain a Class 5 driver's license, a satisfactory driving record, and adhere to the appropriate Company policies and guidelines. A driver's abstract will be one of the background checks requested in the pre-employment screening for the final candidate

Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT July 2nd, 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 resolving 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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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, with the focus on identifying opportunities for development and career advancement within the organization.

Who we are:

We’re an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary with oil and natural gas production operations in Canada and the Asia Pacific region, and upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States. We’re committed to maximizing value by sustainably developing our assets in a safe, innovative and cost-efficient manner, integrating environmental, social and governance considerations into our business plans.

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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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