Engineering Co-op Student

Strathcona Resources Ltd. (“Strathcona”) is a Calgary, Alberta based oil and gas production and development company focused on maximizing oil and gas recovery from its low decline, high free cash flow oil and gas resource base. Strathcona's operations, infrastructure and land position are focused in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Strathcona is always looking for people focused on growth, both personal and professional. Those who love a challenge and get excited at the prospect of collaborating with talented people to continuously improve and innovate on tasks both large and small.

We are actively seeking an Engineering Co-Op Student to join our Production Engineering Cold Lake Team in Calgary. Reporting to the Team Lead, Production, the student will be responsible for supporting production engineering activity for Strathcona’s Cold Lake SAGD assets. They will work closely with field operations and asset team members to optimize production rates, well design, reservoir efficiency, equipment longevity, and operating costs.

This opportunity will begin January 2026 and will be available for a 12-month term.

Responsibilities:

- Daily monitoring and reporting of area production volumes

- Work closely with field operations staff to trouble shoot well performance issues.

- Monitor well pair data quality to ensure that accurate instrumentation and testing data is collected.

- Create production, downtime, and workover dashboards in Tableau to improve team efficiency with data review and analysis.

- Assist production engineers with day-to-day requirements as needed.

- Project reviews and lookbacks.

Requirements:

- Enrolled in a University Co-op or Internship program.

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills – adaptable to a wide range of personalities.

- Thrive in a collaborative team setting, intrinsically motivated, enthusiastic, and a positive attitude.

- Good verbal and written communication and presentation skills.

Great things aren’t done by one person, they’re done by a team.

Strathcona is committed to developing a high-performance culture through collaboration, trust, and agility. We value our work, our communities, and our commitments – but most of all, we value the team of people who make what we do possible.

Apply to Strathcona

If you have what it takes to be a great Strathcona team member, we want to hear from you. We appreciate all interest in this opportunity but only those selected to advance through the process will be contacted.