Senior Coordinator, OT SCADA

Cenovus Energy; Calgary; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid vacation with flex day program

Health & dental benefits

Mental health coverage

Life insurance

Disability benefits

Employee family assistance

Virtual healthcare

Job summary

Cenovus Energy is seeking a Senior Coordinator for OT SCADA, accountable for governance and multi-site SCADA/OBS operations across Upstream assets. Role emphasizes safety, data integrity, and lifecycle management, with collaboration across Operations, Engineering, Projects, and external contractors.

Based in Calgary or Lloydminster, you will lead incident response, maintenance, and project execution while ensuring regulatory and corporate standards are met.

Qualifications

• Legally authorized to work in Canada.
• Minimum 12 years related industry experience with demonstrated leadership.
• Demonstrated knowledge of SCADA architecture, RTU/PLC integration, telemetry/industrial communications, system lifecycle management, and Observation Well instrumentation/data acquisition.
• Experience with one or more SCADA/telemetry platforms.
• Familiarity with industrial communication protocols and telemetry.
• Understanding of OT cybersecurity, remote access governance, and SCADA data integrity/historian management.
• Strong knowledge of Management of Change (MOC) processes and alarm management.

Responsibilities

• Lead coordination of SCADA systems and OBS operations across Thermal and Conventional assets.
• Manage SCADA work intake, prioritization, scheduling, and execution of operational support, maintenance, projects, and MOC requests.
• Coordinate SCADA and OBS infrastructure activities including new well additions, shut-ins, telemetry systems, alarm management, and data quality.
• Oversee the Integrated Winter Program (IWP) planning, budgeting, installation, commissioning, and delivery of OBS/SCADA projects.
• Ensure lifecycle management, cybersecurity compliance, and capital renewal planning for SCADA/OBS assets.
• Coordinate incident reporting, disaster recovery readiness, after-hours support, and business continuity processes.
• Maintain documentation, system records, and data standards; ensure compliance across operations.

Skills

SCADA architecture

RTU/PLC integration

Telemetry/industrial communications

System lifecycle management

OT cybersecurity

Management of Change (MOC)

Education

P.Eng designation

Technologist designation

Red Seal Technician

Job description

Worker Type: Employee Job Post End Date: 10/22/2026

About this opportunity: Reporting to the Manager OT Operations, the Senior Coordinator, OT SCADA provides senior-level technical coordination, governance, and multi-site accountability for SCADA systems and Observation Well (OBS) monitoring and control infrastructure across Upstream Thermal and Conventional facilities. This role ensures front line operations support, standards compliance, data integrity, risk management, and MOC/project execution alignment for SCADA and OBS assets while acting as the primary interface between Operations, Engineering, Reservoir/Subsurface, Projects, and external integrators. This role can be located out of our Calgary or Lloydminster office.

What you’ll do:

Lead coordination of the SCADA systems and Observation Well (OBS) operations, ensuring safe, reliable, and consistent support across Thermal and Conventional assets. Manage SCADA work intake, prioritization, scheduling, and execution of operational support, maintenance activities, projects, and MOC requests. Coordinate SCADA and OBS infrastructure activities including new well additions, shut-ins, telemetry systems, alarm management, and data quality. Oversee the annual Integrated Winter Program (IWP), including planning, budgeting, installation, commissioning, and delivery of OBS and SCADA-related projects. Ensure integrity, availability, and lifecycle management of SCADA and OBS systems, including hardware/software inventories, upgrades, cybersecurity compliance, and capital renewal planning. Coordinate incident reporting, disaster recovery readiness, after-hours support, corrective actions, and business continuity processes. Maintain accurate documentation, system records, and data standards, ensuring compliance with operational, measurement, and reporting requirements. Collaborate with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Projects, Cybersecurity, and external contractors to support commissioning, outages, turnarounds, and operational reliability.

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements: Legally authorized to work in Canada. Registered P.Eng, Technologist or Red Seal Technician designation. Minimum 12 years related industry experience with demonstrated leadership. Demonstrated knowledge of SCADA architecture, RTU/PLC integration, telemetry/industrial communications, system lifecycle management, and Observation Well instrumentation and data acquisition. Experience with one or more SCADA/telemetry platforms. Experience with RTUs, PLCs and field controllers. Familiarity with industrial communication protocols and telemetry. Understanding of OT cybersecurity, remote access governance, and SCADA data integrity/historian management. Strong understanding of Management of Change (MOC) processes, alarm management strategies, preventative maintenance and with system lifecycle and obsolescence monitoring. 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.

Cenovus was ranked one of Canada’s Best Employers in2025. 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.

Total rewards

• 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

• 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 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.

We’re a Canadian-based integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary. We’re committed to maximizing value by developing our assets in a safe, innovative and cost-efficient manner, integrating environmental, social and governance considerations into our business plans. 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. Our shares trade under the symbol CVE, and are listed on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges.