Employee Job Post End Date: 07/22/2026
About this opportunity:
The Conventional Production Engineering team is seeking a highly motivated Senior Production Engineer to join our Calgary-based team. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Conventional Production Engineering, you will play a critical role in maximizing the value of Cenovus' conventional assets by providing technical leadership, optimizing production performance, and supporting safe, reliable, and efficient operations. This is an exciting opportunity to influence business performance through asset strategy development, operational excellence, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams across the organization.
What you’ll do:
Promote safety and Process Safety as a core value in all engineering, design, and operational activities, including participation in Process Safety Event responses.
Manage key aspects of the assigned area's P&L, including production performance, operating costs, and operations capital to maximize asset value.
Provide production, process, and design engineering support for wells and facilities, including troubleshooting, optimization, hydraulic pipeline modeling, compressor evaluations, and artificial lift design.
Lead well intervention and production optimization programs, including cost estimating, program development, and execution support.
Serve as the primary engineering stakeholder in the Management of Change (MOC) process, completing technical scoping, project design, economic analysis, and project execution.
Manage project financial performance by preparing justifications, initiating AFE approvals, monitoring expenditures, maintaining accruals, and communicating budget variances.
Ensure compliance with corporate standards, regulatory requirements, and industry codes, including ASME, CSA, API, licensing, pipeline, facility, and GHG monitoring requirements.
Collaborate with Operations, Finance, Joint Venture partners, Commercial teams, and the Integrated Operations Center (IOC) to optimize production, support resource development plans, and mentor less experienced engineers.
Who you are:
Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:
Legally authorized to work in Canada.
Professional Engineer (.) designation in good standing with APEGA.
Minimum of 8 years of production and operations engineering experience within the upstream oil and gas industry.
Strong knowledge of facility design and the application of industry codes and standards, including ASME B31.3, CSA Z662, and related regulations.
Demonstrated ability to authenticate mechanical engineering deliverables.
Strong technical troubleshooting, analytical, and decision-making skills with the ability to solve complex operational challenges.
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 Final date to receive applications for this position is 11:59 PM MT July 21, 2026.
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.
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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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