Site Operations Engineer

Worker Type:
Employee

Job Post End Date: 10/21/2026

As a Staff Operations Engineer, you will play a key role in optimizing the performance, reliability, and profitability of Cenovus’s surface assets within the Lloydminster Thermal district. You will provide technical leadership across SAGD processing facilities, raw water production assets, and distribution networks, identifying opportunities to improve plant performance, resolve operational challenges, and maximize value. Working closely with Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, and Capital Projects teams, you will influence cross-functional solutions, support strategic initiatives, and contribute to the ongoing development of site capabilities.

• This position can be located in Lloydminster or Calgary.

• Optimize Thermal SAGD facility performance and throughput within Safe Operating Limits by monitoring operations, identifying bottlenecks and improvement opportunities, resolving time-sensitive production issues, developing scopes for new projects, and reducing operating costs through process optimization.
• Provide operational support and troubleshooting across three to four thermal assets, while managing high-priority commitments and providing technical stewardship to a team of one to three site operations engineers to maintain safe and reliable operations.
• Act as a safety leader by promoting safety as a core value and supporting key process safety activities, including Safe Operating Limits, process safety event calculations and investigations, process hazard analyses and asset HAZOPs, and risk assessments for projects and Management of Change (MOC) activities.
• Partner with Operations to complete detailed monthly P&L reviews, identify and act on key production, cost and value drivers, and strengthen business acumen and ownership across the operating area.
• Provide engineering support for repairs, mechanical alterations, and new equipment installations; review repeat repairs and equipment failures to identify recurring issues and recommend equipment or infrastructure modifications that improve reliability, performance, and asset integrity.
• Be an active part of front-end engineering activities that support delivery of the long-range plan, including project identification, technical scoping and design, cost estimating, economic analysis, and preparation of project justification materials aligned with corporate priorities and budgets.
• Support turnaround and outage planning, including scope development, identifying production impacts, and engineering support through execution.
• Steward or contribute to key business processes and initiatives (Monthly Production Reporting, Lost Production Allocation, Value Threat Management, Thermal Raw Water Management, Threat Assessment Process).
• Support regulatory and emissions compliance.

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

• Legally authorized to work in Canada.
• Post-secondary in Chemical Engineering
• P. Eng. designation from APEGS (or eligible to apply for P.Eng with APEGA).
• Minimum 12+ years relevant experience.
• Experience in SAGD or Thermal Operations Engineering considered an asset.

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…