Manager, Asset Integrity & Chief Inspector

Worker Type: Employee

Job Post End Date: 03/19/2026

About this opportunity:

As the Manager, Asset Integrity & Chief Inspector for the Conventional Business Unit, you will lead the team responsible for maintaining and strengthening Cenovus’s Asset Integrity Management Programs—including Pressure Equipment, Pipeline, and Pressure Piping Integrity. This Calgary‑based role requires a balance of strong technical depth, strategic oversight, and people leadership. You will guide a multidisciplinary team of Integrity Engineers, Data Technicians, students, and contractors while partnering closely with Operations and Engineering to ensure safe, compliant, and reliable performance across the asset base.

As a senior technical leader, you will provide expert oversight of inspection, corrosion mitigation, regulatory compliance and integrity engineering while driving long‑term planning, continuous improvement, and disciplined execution of integrity programs. You’ll also serve as a key point of contact for internal stakeholders and external regulators, ensuring Cenovus maintains safe operations and meets all regulatory obligations.

What you’ll do:

- Lead, sustain, and continuously improve Asset Integrity Management Programs (Pressure Equipment, Pipelines, and Pressure Piping), ensuring safe, compliant, and reliable operations.

- Maintain the integrity and safe operation of all pressure equipment. Assure pressure equipment integrity and compliance to code.

- Provide people leadership, including coaching, mentoring, developing, and performance‑managing a team of integrity professionals while modeling Cenovus values and safety culture.

- Offer expert guidance in inspection, corrosion engineering, chemical applications, monitoring programs, and MOC processes.

- Champion the Cenovus Operations Integrity Management System (COIMS) and PEIMs, ensuring HSE expectations are embedded in all integrity activities and field operations.

- Guide asset integrity strategic planning, including long‑term integrity roadmaps, inspection plans, facility assessments, incident investigations, and continuous improvement initiatives.

- Lead audit participation (LOD 2 and 3), regulatory interactions, and compliance activities with agencies such as ABSA, AER, BCER, BCTSA, and CER.

- Maintain and improve integrity databases, master data accuracy, and documentation standards while supporting technical leads across pipelines, equipment, corrosion, and chemicals.

- Partner across Operations, Engineering, and corporate functions to align integrity priorities, share best practices, and ensure consistent execution across the business.

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

- Legally authorized to work in Canada

- A current and valid certification of competency by ABSA as an In-Service Pressure Equipment Inspector is required.

- A Bachelor of Engineering or Engineering Technologist diploma in a related discipline (e.g., Mechanical Engineering, Metallurgy, Welding, Chemical or Process Engineering,) or 1st or 2nd Class Power Engineer is required.

- Minimum 12 years of experience in corrosion, inspection, or related integrity engineering disciplines. Experience as a Chief Inspector would be considered an asset.

- Expert knowledge and application of ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code, CSA Z662, and related industry standards.

- Familiarity with regulatory bodies (e.g., ABSA, AER, BCER, BCTSA, CER).

- Strong working knowledge of upstream oil & gas operations and facilities.

We acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.

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 guidelines. A driver's abstract will be one of the background checks requested in the pre-employment screening for the final candidate.

Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT March 18, 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. Learn more.

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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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The Cenovus Experience Total rewards

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

- Paid vacation (including a flex day program for eligible staff)

- Health & dental benefits

- Substantial mental health coverage

- Life insurance

- Disability benefits

- Employee family assistance

- Virtual healthcare coverage

Our development philosophy

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 perspectives, building connections across teams, and applying expertise in new ways. As a fully integrated energy company, we believe that sharing knowledge across our business and operations creates stronger outcomes—for employees and for the company as a whole.

Our culture

- Our purpose: We energize the world to make people’s lives better.

- Our values:

- Protect what matters

- Do it right

- Make it better

- Do it together

- Cenovus Cares: We believe in the power of purpose-driven work. Our Employee Giving and Volunteering Program, Cenovus Cares, connects our people to our purpose, inspiring action and elevating impact year-round.

- Support causes you care about with volunteer opportunities in and outside of work.

- Earn donation grants while volunteering (up to $1,000 per event).

- Receive donation matching up to $25,000 annually.

- Staff resource groups: We have various staff resource groups to help ensure our people feel a sense of belonging and can grow and do their best work. These voluntary groups are employee-led and all groups are open to all staff in all locations.

Equal opportunity employer

We believe a workplace where everyone has merit-based opportunities to grow, achieve career aspirations and feel a sense of belonging benefits our people, our company and the regions where we live and work. We embrace and encourage different perspectives and approaches, which help us make better business decisions. We believe that through this approach, we can solve challenges, seize opportunities and unlock innovative solutions.

To achieve an unbiased and respectful workplace, individuals are evaluated based on qualifications, merit and abilities, and we encourage applications from all qualified candidates. We also acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.

For more information about working at Cenovus, visit cenovus.com.

The requirements of this posting may be modified to support business needs. Title and compensation administration will be based on the skills and capabilities of the successful incumbent.

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