Manager, Reliability Project Implementation

Oil Authority; Calgary; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; 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 Manager, Reliability Project Implementation in Calgary to lead a team delivering SAP readiness, maintenance data, and project turnover. You will coordinate across Reliability Engineering, Projects, Maintenance, Operations and Supply Chain to ensure accurate, ready-to-use data and handover documentation.

The role requires strong leadership, SAP expertise, and experience driving large-scale data readiness and project execution in an industrial setting.

Qualifications

• Legally authorized to work in Canada.
• Journeyman Red Seal or Technologist in relevant field.
• Minimum 12 years of experience in maintenance, reliability, project implementation, asset management, operations, or related industrial environments.
• Strong knowledge of SAP master data, equipment hierarchies, BOMs, maintenance plans, reliability and maintenance practices, Management of Change processes, and cross-functional project execution.
• Experience leading teams responsible for SAP readiness, maintenance data implementation, project turnover, commissioning, startup support, and operational handover across Reliability Engineering, Projects, Maintenance, Operations, and Supply Chain.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain collaboration with Reliability Engineering, Projects, Maintenance, Operations and Supply Chain, following established processes and governance.
• Define criteria for documentation handover from projects to Reliability Project Implementation.
• Ensure SAP master data, maintenance plans, approvals and handover documents are complete and ready for use.
• Navigate governance requirements, influencing consistency and applying site-specific differences.
• Define intake criteria and manage prioritization, assignment and delivery of Major Project and MOC-driven SAP readiness work.
• Track project status, risks, data gaps, blockers, milestones and outcomes; communicate progress to stakeholders.
• Build stakeholder alignment for project execution through proactive communication and cross-functional reporting.
• Align SAP readiness with project milestones, commissioning, startup and handover to operations.
• Lead, mentor and develop the Reliability Project Implementation team.

Skills

SAP knowledge

Leadership

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Maintenance data expertise

Education

Red Seal or Technologist credential

Tools

SAP

Job description

About this opportunity:

The Manager, Reliability Project Implementation leads a team responsible for ensuring reliability strategies, project requirements, and Management of Change (MOC) deliverables are translated into complete, accurate, and operationally ready SAP maintenance data. The role's primary deliverables are SAP readiness for projects and MOCs, successful project turnover and operational handover, and effective coordination across Reliability Engineering, Projects, Maintenance, Operations, and Supply Chain. Success in this role requires strong leadership, SAP and maintenance management expertise, project execution skills, and the ability to influence and align stakeholders across multiple functions.

What you’ll do:

• Establish and maintain appropriate collaboration with Reliability Engineering, Projects, Maintenance, Operations and Supply Chain, working within their established processes and governance rather than developing our own.
• Establish and collaborate to maintain criteria for documentation handover from projects to the Reliability Project Implementation team.
• Establish and maintain clear completion criteria and quality checks to confirm SAP master data, maintenance plans, approvals and handover documents are complete, accurate and ready for use.
• Navigate LTCHO and OSO governance requirements, influencing consistency where possible and applying site-specific differences where required.
• Define intake criteria and manage prioritization, assignment and delivery of Major Project and MOC-driven SAP readiness work.
• Track project status, risks, data gaps, blockers, milestones and outcomes. Communicate progress to stakeholders and esc…
• Build stakeholder alignment for project execution through proactive communication, cross functional collaboration and clear reporting of progress, challenges and successes.
• Align SAP readiness deliverables with project milestones, commissioning, startup and operational handover requirements.
• Lead, mentor and develop the Reliability Project Implementation team.

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

• Legally authorized to work in Canada
• Journeyman Red Seal or Technologist in relevant field.
• Minimum 12 years of experience in maintenance, reliability, project implementation, asset management, operations, or related industrial environments.
• Strong knowledge of SAP master data, equipment hierarchies, BOMs, maintenance plans, reliability and maintenance practices, Management of Change processes, and cross-functional project execution.
• Experience leading teams responsible for SAP readiness, maintenance data implementation, project turnover, commissioning, startup support, and operational handover across Reliability Engineering, Projects, Maintenance, Operations, and Supply Chain.

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 October 15, 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
• 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 $10,000 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