Jobs at Cenovus Energy

Lead and implement health and safety programs across oil sands sites, develop assurance activities, maintain site safety management plans, build safety metrics dashboards, track performance and trends, support data entry and reporting, and assist site leadership in closing safety gaps to eliminate injuries.

Lead project controls for turnarounds and outages across planning, execution, and closeout. Develop controls frameworks, WBS, dashboards, KPIs, budgeting, forecasting, EVM, Monte Carlo schedule risk analysis, change control, and performance reporting. Coordinate with Finance, Operations, Procurement, contractors, and project teams, mentor staff, and support continuous improvement to meet cost, schedule, and safety objectives.

Lead five-year integrated turnaround and major maintenance planning for a large SAGD asset, managing schedules, budgets, production-loss forecasting, scope, and change requests. Optimize outage strategies, drive OPEX and maintenance budget reductions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Operations, Maintenance, Asset Integrity, Reservoir, and Process teams to improve asset reliability and business performance.

Leads execution of a $300–$400 million downstream refining project portfolio across US and Canadian sites. Oversees engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, project controls, quality, forecasting, and capital process improvement. Ensures projects meet safety, reliability, schedule, cost, and compliance expectations while coordinating with technical, operational, supply chain, commercial, and site leadership teams. Develops project personnel, provides safety and execution assurance, and supports front-end development and capital work performed by other departments.

Early-career full‑stack developer role building production-grade web applications and AI-enabled products for the energy industry. Own end-to-end delivery with stakeholders: define problems, design, develop, test, deploy, and monitor. Integrate generative AI and agentic systems, work with databases and cloud data platforms, and grow through mentorship, code reviews, and paired development in an in-office Calgary team.

Serve as the single procurement point of contact for Toledo Refinery turnarounds. Create and manage Procurement Sourcing Records, develop contract and negotiation strategies, source labor/services/materials, assemble and review RFPs, negotiate terms with Legal and stakeholders, administer post-award contracts, and resolve purchase order/requisition issues throughout turnaround lifecycle.

Perform accounting and financial analysis for physical and financial commodity transactions including month-end close, reconciliations, inventory valuation, RINs and renewable fuels compliance, forecasting, budgeting, KPI/variance analysis, and support of ETRM systems while collaborating with commercial teams.

Sources services and materials for refinery stakeholders, develops RFP and sourcing documentation, negotiates contract terms, administers post-award contracts, and manages purchase orders, invoices, claims, changes, disputes, and closeout activities. The role leads negotiations and cross-functional teams while ensuring compliance with procurement policies, procedures, and governance.

Sources materials and services for refinery stakeholders, develops RFP and sourcing documentation, negotiates contract terms, administers awarded contracts, and manages purchase orders, invoices, claims, changes, closeouts, and lessons learned. The role leads negotiations, directs cross-functional teams, resolves complex commercial disputes, quantifies cost and risk, and ensures compliance with procurement policies and governance.

Supervise mechanical maintenance activities across oil sands operations, leading millwrights, welders, pipefitters, scaffolders, insulators, and equipment operators. Ensure safe, compliant, high-quality work aligned with engineering specifications, schedules, and budgets. Manage service providers, workforce training, work-order completion, documentation, and closeouts. Coach and develop direct reports, oversee performance, and drive improvements in safety, efficiency, cost, and team culture.

Provides Level 1 on-site support, health monitoring, preventative maintenance, and break-fix services for industrial control systems at remote oil sands facilities. Supports DCS, PLC, SIS, virtualization, domains, networking, industrial protocols, cybersecurity operations, patch management, disaster recovery, inventory, and parts management. Documents OT procedures, supports knowledge transfer, collaborates on projects and management of change, and participates in emergency response and recovery.

Supports mergers, acquisitions, divestments, and other corporate development transactions across the full lifecycle. Responsibilities include financial modeling, valuation, economic assessments, market and industry analysis, due diligence coordination, data room and Q&A management, leadership presentations, and transaction database maintenance. The role collaborates with Legal, Finance, Tax, Operations, Strategy, senior leaders, and external advisors to support strategic decisions and portfolio value creation.

Designs and maintains refinery DCS control schemes, configurations, alarms, operator graphics, process historian systems, and control hardware. Supports design reviews, P&ID reviews, MOC, HAZOP, LOPA, project engineering, procurement, reliability improvements, PSM compliance, and troubleshooting of refinery operational issues.

Lead process safety risk assessments and mitigation across refinery units, ensure OSHA PSM and EPA RMP compliance, facilitate MOCs, HAZOPs, LOPAs and PSSRs, monitor safety metrics, perform hazard evaluations and incident investigations, implement safety initiatives, support audits and management system compliance, and collaborate with operations and leadership to reduce risk and improve reliability.

Support refinery financial management through budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, cost management, and performance reporting. Partner with operations and corporate teams to develop dashboards, forecasts, and management reporting to drive decision-making and control expenditures.

Manage OPEX forecasting, monthly reporting, accruals, variance analysis and annual budgeting for assigned Oil Sands sites. Partner with site operations and cross-functional teams to explain results, drive corrective action, develop cost estimates, build business cases, and improve cost-control processes. Provide coverage across sites and present financial insights to site leadership to support delivery of business plans and risk mitigation.

Lead Tier 2 HR service delivery across Canadian HR Operations, manage HR Advisory team, handle escalations and confidential, time-sensitive matters, improve tools, policies and processes, and translate policy/system changes into scalable, compliant HR solutions.

Lead piping integrity assessments for CTCHO assets: develop piping circuits, populate integrity database, produce circuit assessment reports, calculate corrosion rates and remaining life, recommend mitigations and reinspection intervals, support inspection planning and MOC actions, and collaborate with engineering, operations, and inspection stakeholders.

Record and analyze capital expenditures for oil sands assets, prepare accruals and adjusting journal entries, perform monthly cost and variance analysis, support PMR and quarterly financial reviews, liaise with tax/audit and risk teams, and prepare accounting memos and reports summarizing capital spend and deviations from budget/forecast.

Lead identification, scoping and delivery of high-value debottlenecking, capacity and cost-optimization projects for Foster Creek and Sunrise SAGD facilities. Develop technical scopes, business cases, economic and risk analyses, act as SME across disciplines, mentor engineers, and ensure solutions meet Safe Operating Limits and asset priorities.