Senior Process Engineer - Superior

Worker Type:
Employee Job Post End Date: 01/01/2026

About this opportunity:

Join Cenovus Energy as a Senior Process Engineer in Superior, WI to increase and develop project scopes in Front End Development at our Superior Refinery. You will play a crucial role in front-end development, focusing on validating business needs and developing well-rounded solutions. Collaborating across teams, you will ensure alignment on project solutions and help maintain a competitive capital portfolio! Relocation provided.

• Lead the development and front-end engineering phases of capital projects, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (EHS, Reliability, Asset Management) to validate project assumptions, scope, EHS compliance and risk, and economic feasibility.
• Identify and support capital opportunities by working with asset teams and technical resources to integrate into long‑range planning.
• Prepare project justifications, economic models, and risk assessments to support decision‑making and approvals.
• Oversee process design reviews, including PFDs, PIDs, and equipment sizing; ensure compliance with engineering standards and process safety requirements.
• Conduct quality control checks on detailed design work, including relief calculations, flare loading, and alarm management.
• Drive margin improvement initiatives by partnering with SMEs and commercial teams to define cost‑effective technical solutions.
• Support the Management of Change (MOC) processes and ensure design basis documents meet reliability and asset availability targets.

• Legally authorized to work in the US.
• Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical or Petroleum Engineering.
• 8+ years of experience in refining process and project engineering.
• Strong technical computing literacy for modeling, simulation, and data analysis.
• Willing to travel approximately 10–15% of the time outside of the base location.

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 December 31, 2025.

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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 downstream operations include upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States. We are currently the largest refiner in Ohio and transport products from our refineries in Lima and Toledo, Ohio and Superior, Wisconsin via pipelines, rail cars and trucks to customers throughout the United States.

Other 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.

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We’re committed to being an employer of choice through competitive compensation and our comprehensive total rewards package, including:

• Generous paid vacation
• Annual bonus
• Retirement savings plan matching
• Long‑term incentives
• Medical & dental coverage
• Life insurance
• Disability benefits
• Employee assistance program
• Virtual healthcare coverage
• Generous leave of absence programs
• Fitness membership reimbursement

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…