Maintenance Specialist

Oil Authority; Sunrise, Calgary, Edmonton; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid vacation

Health & dental benefits

Mental health coverage

Life insurance

Disability benefits

Employee family assistance

Virtual healthcare coverage

Job summary

Cenovus is seeking a Maintenance Specialist to translate turnaround plans into execution across multiple sites in Alberta. You will coordinate resources, schedules, and handoffs with planners, contractors, and operations teams while upholding safety and efficiency.

Ideal candidates will have extensive turnaround experience, trade or engineering qualifications, and strong stakeholder communication. Travel to Cenovus sites is required as needed, with a focus on safe, compliant, and reliable

Qualifications

• 12 years of experience in turnaround, maintenance planning, scheduling, and execution, with leadership of multi-disciplinary teams.
• Trade certification, Steam ticket, or engineering qualification, or equivalent education/experience.
• Strong knowledge of maintenance, reliability, and project management principles with excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Support turnaround kick-off activities, 18-month Plan-to-Plan milestones, turnaround planning initiatives, stage gate reviews, and required approvals to ensure alignment with the execution plan.
• Facilitate Turnaround Execution Team meetings to review scopes and schedules, assign and track action items, integrate operations, maintenance, and construction work plans, and ensure milestone and turnover (MOC) requirements are met.
• Support contractor selection, approval and engagement; establish contractor requirements; and confirm required resources (people, equipment, and third-party services) are approved, available, and scheduled.
• Audit work packages with planners, schedulers, and coordinators; support development of cleaning procedures, permitting strategies, equipment utilization plans, asset integrity reviews, and risk mitigation plans to enable safe and efficient execution.
• Coordinate break-in and emergent work with key stakeholders, review the master execution schedule, and participate in post-turnaround contractor reviews and lessons learned to support continuous improvement.
• Lead contractor and support service mobilization and oversee execution of the turnaround event.
• Manage the turnaround schedule, duration, execution plans, costs, and critical path.
• Maintain shift update reports to ensure effective turnover and coordination with night shift counterparts.
• Report and support evaluation of late or found work requests in alignment with the Late Work/Found Work process.
• Lead turnaround close-out activities and support post-event reporting and handover.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder engagement

Turnaround planning

Maintenance scheduling

Project management

Education

Engineering qualification

Trade certification

Steam ticket

Job description

About this opportunity:

The Maintenance Specialist is responsible for executing turnaround events, ensuring all activities are carried out safely, efficiently, and in alignment with the integrated plan developed by the Senior Turnaround Coordinator. While the Senior Coordinator is accountable for overall turnaround planning and strategy, the Specialist plays a critical role in translating the plan into action by coordinating resources, managing schedules, and ensuring execution readiness across all fronts. This role requires strong collaboration with planners, schedulers, coordinators, contractors, and operations teams to support seamless execution and continuous improvement.

This position will require the successful candidate to work at one or more of the following Cenovus sites based on business needs: Christina Lake, Christina Lake North, Foster Creek, and/or Sunrise.

Work Environment:

• This is a full-time employee position working a shift rotation.
• All Oil Sands Operations sites have full-service camp facilities and recreational amenities.

Transportation:

• Depending on your place of residence and your shift rotation, bus and/or air transportation to/from site is offered from designated departure points in select locations.
• Foster Creek is serviced by flight Hubs in Calgary and Edmonton as well as bus transportation to site from La Corey, AB.
• Christina Lake, Christina Lake North and Sunrise have service flight Hubs in Calgary, Edmonton and Saskatoon as well as bus transportation to site from La Corey, AB and Lac La Biche, AB.

What you’ll do:

• Support turnaround kick-off activities, 18-month Plan-to-Plan milestones, turnaround planning initiatives, stage gate reviews, and required approvals to ensure alignment with the execution plan.
• Facilitate Turnaround Execution Team meetings to review scopes and schedules, assign and track action items, integrate operations, maintenance, and construction work plans, and ensure milestone and turnover (MOC) requirements are met.
• Support contractor selection, approval and engagement; establish contractor requirements; and confirm required resources (people, equipment, and third-party services) are approved, available, and scheduled.
• Audit work packages with planners, schedulers, and coordinators; support development of cleaning procedures, permitting strategies, equipment utilization plans, asset integrity reviews, and risk mitigation plans to enable safe and efficient execution.
• Coordinate break-in and emergent work with key stakeholders, review the master execution schedule, and participate in post-turnaround contractor reviews and lessons learned to support continuous improvement.
• Lead contractor and support service mobilization and oversee execution of the turnaround event.
• Manage the turnaround schedule, duration, execution plans, costs, and critical path.
• Maintain shift update reports to ensure effective turnover and coordination with night shift counterparts.
• Report and support evaluation of late or found work requests in alignment with the Late Work/Found Work process.
• Lead turnaround close-out activities and support post-event reporting and handover.

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

• Legally authorized to work in Canada.
• Minimum of 12 years of experience in turnaround and maintenance planning, scheduling, and execution, including demonstrated leadership experience leading multi-disciplinary teams.
• Trade certification, Steam ticket, engineering qualification, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience, with proven experience in maintenance standard processes and optimization initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of maintenance, reliability, and project management principles, paired with excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to travel to multiple sites as required.

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 November 8, 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:

Ranked as one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025, 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 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. Cenovus’s downstream operations include upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States.

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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:

• Paid vacation (including a flex day program for eligible staff)
• Health & dental benefits
• Substantial mental health coverage
• Life insurance
• Disability benefits
• Employee family assistance
• Virtual healthcare coverage

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