Staff Site Operations Engineer

Cenovus Energy; City of Lloydminster; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 190,000; 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 Energy staff engineers in Lloydminster or Calgary optimize surface assets, focusing on SAGD facility performance, reliability, and cost efficiency. The role spans process optimization, water production, and distribution networks to maximize value while maintaining safe operations.

You will guide a small operations team, support front-end engineering, participate in long-range planning, and drive safety, compliance, and asset integrity across multiple assets.

Qualifications

• Post-secondary in Chemical Engineering.
• P. Eng. designation from APEGS (or eligible to apply).
• Minimum 12+ years relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Optimize Thermal SAGD facility performance and throughput within Safe Operating Limits by monitoring operations, identifying bottlenecks and improvement opportunities, resolving time-sensitive production issues, developing scopes for new projects, and reducing operating costs through process optimization.
• Provide operational support and troubleshooting across three to four thermal assets, while managing high-priority commitments and providing technical stewardship to a team of one to three site operations engineers to maintain safe and reliable operations.
• Act as a safety leader by promoting safety as a core value and supporting key process safety activities, including Safe Operating Limits, process safety event calculations and investigations, process hazard analyses and asset HAZOPs, and risk assessments for projects and Management of Change (MOC) activities.
• Partner with Operations to complete detailed monthly P&L reviews, identify and act on key production, cost and value drivers, and strengthen business acumen and ownership across the operating area.
• Provide engineering support for repairs, mechanical alterations, and new equipment installations; review repeat repairs and equipment failures to identify recurring issues and recommend equipment or infrastructure modifications that improve reliability, performance, and asset integrity.
• Be an active part of front-end engineering activities that support delivery of the long-range plan, including project identification, technical scoping and design, cost estimating, economic analysis, and preparation of project justification materials aligned with corporate priorities and budgets.
• Support turnaround and outage planning, including scope development, identifying production impacts, and engineering support through execution.
• Steward or contribute to key business processes and initiatives (Monthly Production Reporting, Lost Production Allocation, Value Threat Management, Thermal Raw Water Management, Threat Assessment Process).
• Support regulatory and emissions compliance.

Education

Chemical Engineering

P. Eng. designation (APEGS)

Job description

Worker Type: Employee

Job Post End Date: 10/21/2026

About this opportunity

As a Staff Operations Engineer, you will play a key role in optimizing the performance, reliability, and profitability of Cenovus’s surface assets within the Lloydminster Thermal district. You will provide technical leadership across SAGD processing facilities, raw water production assets, and distribution networks, identifying opportunities to improve plant performance, resolve operational challenges, and maximize value. Working closely with Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, and Capital Projects teams, you will influence cross-functional solutions, support strategic initiatives, and contribute to the ongoing development of site capabilities.

Work Environment

• This position can be located in Lloydminster or Calgary.

What you’ll do

• Optimize Thermal SAGD facility performance and throughput within Safe Operating Limits by monitoring operations, identifying bottlenecks and improvement opportunities, resolving time-sensitive production issues, developing scopes for new projects, and reducing operating costs through process optimization.
• Provide operational support and troubleshooting across three to four thermal assets, while managing high-priority commitments and providing technical stewardship to a team of one to three site operations engineers to maintain safe and reliable operations.
• Act as a safety leader by promoting safety as a core value and supporting key process safety activities, including Safe Operating Limits, process safety event calculations and investigations, process hazard analyses and asset HAZOPs, and risk assessments for projects and Management of Change (MOC) activities.
• Partner with Operations to complete detailed monthly P&L reviews, identify and act on key production, cost and value drivers, and strengthen business acumen and ownership across the operating area.
• Provide engineering support for repairs, mechanical alterations, and new equipment installations; review repeat repairs and equipment failures to identify recurring issues and recommend equipment or infrastructure modifications that improve reliability, performance, and asset integrity.
• Be an active part of front-end engineering activities that support delivery of the long-range plan, including project identification, technical scoping and design, cost estimating, economic analysis, and preparation of project justification materials aligned with corporate priorities and budgets.
• Support turnaround and outage planning, including scope development, identifying production impacts, and engineering support through execution.
• Steward or contribute to key business processes and initiatives (Monthly Production Reporting, Lost Production Allocation, Value Threat Management, Thermal Raw Water Management, Threat Assessment Process).
• Support regulatory and emissions compliance.

Who you are

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

• Legally authorized to work in Canada.
• Post-secondary in Chemical Engineering
• P. Eng. designation from APEGS (or eligible to apply for P.Eng with APEGA).
• Minimum 12+ years relevant experience.
• Experience in SAGD or Thermal Operations Engineering considered an asset.

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 October 20, 2026

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 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.

If you require accessibility assistance to complete the on-line application or otherwise apply for an open position with Cenovus, its subsidiaries and affiliates, please email [e-mail].

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-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.