Marine Scheduling Specialist

About this opportunity:

Cenovus Energy is seeking a Marine Scheduling Specialist to be the subject matter expert for the safe, compliant, and value optimized movement of all marine products throughout our domestic and international distribution markets. The scope includes ensuring continuous 24/7 operations of marine movements, while transforming trade and marketing strategies into execution of priorities and initiatives under a variety of contract types (voyage, contract of affreightment and time-chartering) and all commodities.

What you’ll do:

• Plan and coordinate barge and vessel activity across multiple commodities to end markets, while ensuring delivery commitments are met (scope includes deliveries via pipeline, rail, and marine transport modes)

• Create and steward marine related policies and procedures within the organization

• Undertake voyage planning, execution and tracking to completion and comply with required reporting/summaries/data entry. Monitor progress of vessels and pre-empt any issues to avoid any delays, costs, or exposure that my negatively impact Cenovus

• Appoint and manage Inspection, Agent, and expediting companies, while ensuring all testing and measurement is completed accurately for vessel activity

• Manage the operations of any Cenovus chartered vessel through any port call or STS activity

• Responsible for managing all post fixture activity, primarily negotiation and settling of demurrage and other claims (includes performance tracking of vessels, development of and monitoring specific KPI’s, and general operations contained within Cenovus Marine Operations Handbook (CMOH))

• External point of contact with pipelines, vessel terminals, and other 3rd party customers related to commercial matters

• Partner closely with Commercial Operations and Trading to optimize new and existing contracts, ensuring Cenovus obtains optimal value from our marketing activities while reducing risk

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Who you are:

• Legally authorized to work in the US

• 12+ years of direct experience in commodity logistics including experience in marine transportation/shipping

• Commercial and operational understanding of North American marine commodity transportation networks and marine infrastructure; specifically, connectivity to and from the US Gulf Coast, Eastern Canada and Western Canada

• Proficient in ETRM systems, Excel and adapts easily to other related platforms (vetting portals, voyage planning, Q88, SIRE etc.)

• Strong understanding of voyage operations, vessel/barge chartering, post fixture accounting, contract language (Charter Parties, Terminal Agreements, GTC’s etc.), tariffs and regulations, with ability to create and translate into optimization opportunities​

We acknowledge the value of transferable 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 APRIL 17, 2026.

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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