Chief Power Engineer

The Chief Power Engineer provides regulatory, technical and operational leadership for the safe, reliable and efficient operation of the Hangingstone Expansion and Demo SAGD facilities. The role is accountable for compliance with the Safety Codes Act, the Power Engineers Regulation and applicable ABSA requirements, and for identifying and leading operational optimization opportunities, operational discipline and technical oversight across all crews and shifts.

Reporting to the Operations Manager, the Chief Power Engineer works closely with the field leadership team, to connect regulatory and operating requirements with day-to-day asset execution. The role partners across Operations, Maintenance, Planning and Scheduling, Projects, Engineering, Asset Integrity and HSE to prioritize work across the asset, improve productivity, reliability, efficiency, and reinforce a One Greenfire culture.

This is a site-based rotational position at Greenfire’s Hangingstone Expansion and Demo SAGD facilities in northern Alberta.

• Serve as the Greenfire Resources Hangingstone Expansion and Demo facility designated Chief Power Engineer and fulfil the responsibilities assigned to the role under applicable Alberta legislation, regulations and ABSA requirements.
• Maintain plant registrations, operating records, logbooks, certificate information, supervision arrangements and other documentation required to demonstrate compliant operation.
• Establish and maintain operating standards, approved procedures, operating limits, emergency and shutdown practices, alarm-management expectations and other controls required for safe and compliant operation.
• Verify that each operating shift has the required qualified and competent personnel, appropriate supervision and effective contingency coverage for absences, vacancies and emergency situations.

• Work with the Operations Manager and Operations Supervisors to maintain consistent operating strategies, priorities, standards and handovers across crews, shifts and assets.
• Establish the competency framework for power engineers, control room operators and field operators, and ensure competency assessments, progression decisions and sign-offs are rigorous, consistent and properly documented.
• Support Operations Supervisors in developing panel operators.
• Partner with the Operations Supervisors to strengthen scope readiness, procedure and document reviews, team scheduling, operational follow-up and productive use of night shift resources.

• Set expectations for safe, reliable and efficient operation of steam generation, water treatment, bitumen production, well pads, and utilities equipment, and monitor performance against approved operating plans.
• Partner with Operations leadership to improve production, reliability, operating cost and equipment performance through disciplined use of operating data and field observations.
• Maintain a strong field presence, review shift and plant logbooks, verify operating rounds and investigate significant deviations, process upsets, recurring alarms and operating-practice gaps.
• Lead or support operating incident investigations, root cause analysis, corrective actions and organisational learning, and ensure lessons are incorporated into procedures, training and operating practices.

• Partner with the Maintenance Manager, Planning and Scheduling resources and Operations Supervisors to prioritise work across the asset and ensure scopes, permits, isolations, equipment access and operating support are ready for efficient execution.
• Support the effective use of maintenance resources, including appropriate operational leadership of night shift work when required.
• Provide Operations input to regulatory preventive-maintenance plans, shutdowns, turnarounds and integrated long-range plans, balancing production, maintenance, integrity and project priorities.
• Work with Projects, Engineering, Chief Inspector, and HSE on management of change, design reviews, hazard…