Senior Process Development Engineer Ohio

About this opportunity:

Join Cenovus Energy as a Senior Process Development Engineer, where you will play a crucial role in advancing our Front-End Development projects at Ohio Refineries in Toledo and Lima. This opportunity allows you to validate business needs, develop low-cost solutions, and ensure our capital portfolio remains competitive. You will collaborate with asset teams, technical experts, and EHS resources to align on project solutions and support procedure development, commissioning, and operational training. Relocation to Toledo, OH, or Lima, OH required.

What you’ll do:

• Lead project development and select phases, including front-end engineering design, scope definition, and cost/schedule optimization to ensure alignment with business objectives and capital efficiency.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with EHS, Reliability, Asset, and Infrastructure teams to identify capital opportunities, validate assumptions, and incorporate operational needs into project planning.
• Develop and justify project concepts, including economic models, risk assessments, and problem statements to support strategic decision-making and long-range planning.
• Ensure technical quality and compliance, reviewing and approving process engineering deliverables such as PFDs, P&IDs, H&MBs, equipment sizing, and process safety documentation.
• Support process safety and MOC activities, acting as a technical resource to ensure safe and compliant implementation of design changes.
• Drive margin improvement initiatives, working with SMEs and commercial teams to identify and implement cost-effective technical solutions that enhance asset performance.
• Perform quality control and assurance on detailed engineering work, including relief calculations, flare loading, alarm management, and process safety information.
• Rank and prioritize capital projects based on return on investment, complexity, and strategic alignment to support portfolio optimization.

Who you are:

• Legally authorized to work in the US
• Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical or Petroleum Engineering required
• 8+ years of experience in Refining process and project engineering
• Strong technical computing literacy for modeling, simulation, and data analysis
• Willing to travel approximately 15% of the time between Ohio Refineries

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 September 13, 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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