Staff Site Operations Engineer

Cenovus; City of Lloydminster; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy company in Lloydminster is seeking a Staff Site Operations Engineer to optimize SAGD facilities and manage a team of process engineers. The ideal candidate has 12 years of experience in operations process engineering and holds a P. Eng. designation. This full-time role requires collaboration across various engineering disciplines, ensuring safety and compliance while driving continuous improvements in plant performance.

Benefits

Competitive total rewards package

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Legally authorized to work in Canada.
• 12 years relevant experience.
• Advanced knowledge of regulatory and code requirements.
• Experience in operations process engineering.

Responsibilities

• Optimize Thermal SAGD facilities for maximum throughput.
• Manage high-priority commitments while leading a team.
• Support regulatory and emissions compliance.
• Steward engineering work in alignment with management plan.

Skills

Advanced skills in SAGD

Proven experience in core process engineering functions

Leadership experience

Proficient in Production Engineering

Education

Post-secondary in Chemical Engineering or relevant

P. Eng. designation from APEGS

Job description

Worker Type : Employee

Job Post End Date : 07 / 03 / 2025

About this opportunity :

The role of the Staff Site Operations Engineer contributes to Cenovuss production goals by optimizing value and profitability from surface assets. The role is accountable for :

Resolving health safety environmental and regulatory problems and keeping surface assets producing

Enhancing plant performance optimizing plant profitability identifying bottlenecks driving solutions with appropriate teams and ensuring value accretive decisions are made on a continual basis

Stewarding or contributing to key business processes / strategic initiatives and technical stewardship as well as leading and developing site team members

The role supports the Lloydminster Thermal district which includes SAGD processing facilities with raw water producing assets and distribution network. The role regularly collaborates with on-site or remote teams (such as Operations Production Engineering Development Engineering Capital Projects Process Engineering iSTO Facilities Engineering other engineering disciplines and Maintenance). As such this role requires proficiency in managing relationships and expectations across many different teams as well as remotely across geographic locations.

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Work Environment :

This position is located in Lloydminster and requires the successful candidate to live in the area

What youll do :

Ensure the Thermal SAGD facilities are optimized for maximum throughput within their Safe Operating Limits (through monitoring and optimizing facility performance debottleneck identification and scoping of new projects solving plant issues that are production impacting and extremely time sensitive and minimizing OpEx costs through process optimization)

Steward or contribute to key business processes and initiatives (Monthly Production Reporting Lost Production Allocation Production Threat Management Thermal Raw Water Management Safe Operating Limits TECH Meetings Fluid Sample Management Threat Assessment Process iSTO)

Manage high-priority commitments by doing the work themselves while leading and technically stewarding a team of 1-3 site operations process engineers. Responsible for ensuring effective prioritization and efficient workload distribution between themselves and their team members to meet objectives across the district

Collaborate with the Operations Process Engineering Technical team to uphold and reinforces standards of practice and technical principles / approaches with direct reports and peers)

Support quantification of process safety and business risk through operational risk assessments

Complete process safety event release calculations to quantify release volumes and categorize Process Safety Events for the Cenovus corporate scorecard. Support process safety event incident investigations

Support annual process safety review programs (ex. revalidation HAZOPs) and action item resolution

Support regulatory and emissions compliance by providing guidance on venting and flaring. Support the Enhanced Production Audit Program (process engineering estimates monthly or quarterly gas sample verification audits)

Support annual turnaround and outage planning (including budgeting) and providing process engineering support

Support delivery of the long-range plan by supporting Capital Projects Process Engineering front-end scoping

Support failure investigations

Identify and drive continuous improvement

Complete and steward engineering work in alignment with the Cenovus professional practice management plan

Who you are :

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements :

Legally authorized to work in Canada

Post-secondary in Chemical Engineering or relevant

P. Eng. designation from APEGS

12 years relevant experience

Advanced skills in SAGD with significant knowledge in Operations Process Engineering supported by a strong understanding of upstream process equipment and other core SAGD functions

Proven experience in core process engineering functions such as : process simulations control valve sizing PSV / PVRV sizing line sizing vessel / HEX sizing / performance pump curves / sizing / performance determination of bottlenecks benchmarking etc.

Advanced knowledge of regulatory and code requirements and how to operate the facilities within our Safe Operating Limits (SOLs)

Previous leadership experience overseeing a team of engineers

Proficient in fields such as Production Engineering Development Engineering Major Projects Process Engineering Design Facility Engineering

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 drivers license a satisfactory driving record and adhere to the appropriate Company policies and guidelines. A drivers 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 July 2nd 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 resolving next steps.

Cenovus was ranked one of Canadas Best Employers in 2025. Were 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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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 with the focus on identifying opportunities for development and career advancement within the organization.

Who we are :

Werean integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary with oil and natural gas production operations in Canada and the Asia Pacific region and upgrading refiningand marketing operations in Canada and the United States. Werecommitted to maximizing value by sustainably developing our assets in a safe innovativeand cost-efficient manner integrating environmental social and governance considerations into our business plans.

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Required Experience :

Staff IC

Key Skills

Computer Science,Docker,Kubernetes,Python,VMware,C / C++,Go,System Architecture,gRPC,OS Kernels,Perl,Distributed Systems

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1