Staff Facilities Engineer

About this opportunity:

Reporting to the Manager, Facilities Engineering, the Staff Facility Engineer will provide technical support to the Field Facilities Engineering teams across Oilsands, Lloydminster Thermal and Conventional Heavy Oil. This role will facilitate change using Cenovus’s Management of Change (MOC) process to safely manage facility modifications. The Staff Facility Engineer with be responsible for overseeing the creation of engineering work packages, providing guidance to internal teams and external engineering firms throughout design and equipment selection.

What you’ll do:

• Perform designs for facility modifications, mechanical changes, and equipment installations in accordance with applicable specifications, codes, regulations, and the Cenovus PPMP, ensuring solutions are fit-for-purpose.

• Lead upfront project development, including scoping, design basis, execution planning, cost and schedule development, and support feasibility/FEED activities.

• Generate engineering work packages by creating and modifying engineering documents internally or overseeing the development of packages through third party engineering firms.

• Provide construction-phase support, including constructability reviews, field change notices, and pre-startup safety reviews ensuring work aligns with corporate integrity programs (Pressure Equipment, Pipeline), including EPE and hot tap approvals.

• Lead MOC processes from initiation through closeout, including EI submissions, PHA facilitation, risk assessments, and implementation of mitigation actions.

• Manage project controls for assigned work, including cost estimates, schedules, forecasting, risk management, reporting, coordinate procurement and fabrication of equipment and long-lead materials.

• Engage and align stakeholders to project objectives, supporting teams with constructability input, cost estimates, and proposal development to secure project approvals.

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

• Legally authorized to work in Canada.

• A member in good standing or eligible for registration with APEGA or APEGS.

• Minimum 12 years of experience with knowledge of applicable industry codes and standards such as CSA, API and ASME.

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 December 15, 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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