Senior Coordinator, Major Maintenance

About this opportunity:

Cenovus is looking for a Senior Coordinator, Major Maintenance. Reporting to the Manager, Turnarounds Oil Sands.

The Major Maintenance Senior Coordinator is accountable for the overall planning, strategy, and readiness of a specific major maintenance events. This role leads the development of the integrated plan, ensuring alignment across all collaborators and setting the foundation for safe, efficient, and cost-effective execution.

There is an expectation that the Senior Coordinator travels to all three Oil Sands Site to support the work as required and provide support to their teams.

While this vacancy is currently at Foster Creek and Christina Lake, this posting could be used to fill vacancies at any of the three Oil Sands Operations sites (Including Sunrise, based on business need).

Work Environment:

Foster Creek & Christina Lake

• This is a full-time employee position working a shift rotation.

• Foster Creek and Christina Lake has full-service camp facilities

• 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.

• Christina Lake is serviced by flight Hubs in Calgary and Edmonton as well as bus transportation to site from La Corey, AB. and Lac La Biche, AB.

Sunrise

• This is a full-time employee position working a shift rotation.

• Sunrise is located approximately 100 km northeast of the City of Fort McMurray and is a fly in/ fly out remote camp-based position.

• Cenovus will provide transportation to Sunrise from designated hubs out of Calgary and Edmonton.

• At the Sunrise site, employees will be provided comfortable camp accommodations and recreational amenities.

What you’ll do:

• Provide leadership, mentoring, and development opportunities to team members while developing a high-performing, collaborative work environment.

• Start and lead the MM event milestone plan, assigning action owners, tracking completion, and ensuring adherence to both the milestone plan and budget allocation.

• Ensure the approved worklist aligns with budget and Event Charter guidelines; engage in scope reviews with collaborators to identify and assess risks.

• Lead scope validation to ensure all work is risk-assessed, justified, and approved, and confirm submitted scope is complete and ready for planning.

• Support and develop risk mitigation plans to improve execution readiness; develop and approve contracting strategies.

• Establish quality expectations for planning, monitor progress against achievements, and coordinate/participate in readiness audits.

• Update stakeholders on event readiness and status; coordinate field execution in collaboration with major maintenance specialists.

• Monitor event status including safety, critical path, schedule compliance, earned vs. burned hours, non-productive time, and cost; issue daily event reports covering safety, schedule, and cost performance.

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

• Legally authorized to work in Canada.

• Minimum of 12 years of leadership experience in leading multi-disciplinary teams supporting Turnaround and Maintenance planning, scheduling, and execution.

• Experience in Maintenance standard processes and leading optimization and alignment initiatives.

• Proven track record to plan and coordinate deliverables.

• Understanding of business value as it relates to production, cost, schedule and contingency.

• Understanding of both Maintenance and Operations functions as it pertains to business impacts.

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, September 29th, 2025.

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 $25,000 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.

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