Manager, Turnaround Planning and Engineering

Worker Type: EmployeeJob Post End Date: 01/18/2026

About this opportunity:

Cenovus is hiring a Manager, Turnaround (TAR) Planning and Engineering for our Toledo refinery. This role is responsible for development and implementation of efficient, consistent, and competitive planning and engineering systems, standards, and processes for TARs and NCE Events. The individual manages the discipline specific planning team, is responsible for working with the Asset, Engineering, and Inspection teams to develop outage Premise, assess incoming scope items, implement risk based scope selection process, align key deliverable milestones, manage planning, engineering, and quality KPIs, and for providing assurance.

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What you'll do:

- Responsible for development and implementation of efficient, consistent, and competitive planning, quality, and engineering systems, standards, and processes for TARs and NCE Events.

- Handles the discipline specific planning team

- Responsible for coordinating critical breakthrough accomplishments, leading all aspects of planning, engineering, and quality metrics, and ensuring quality control at every stage.

- Coaches, mentors and supervises team members, ensure technical subject matter support, and ensures proper resourcing and assignments are made and performance is achieved in support of all Turnaround events.

- Is responsible for creation of detailed plans for Turnaround execution including coordinating with appropriate fields and teams to determine technical requirements, proposing resourcing strategies, assessing and sourcing materials and service requirements, and building detailed plan steps and Phase 1 schedules.

- Participates and contributes to lessons learned and benchmarking. Provides insight and analysis of how the plan evolved over time and any issues that came up during the execution of the turnaround and implements learnings into future plans.

Who you are:

- Legally authorized to work in the US

- Minimum of 12 years of experience in turnaround, project and/or maintenance planning and execution

- Bachelor of Science degree in Construction Management or an Engineering field

- Working knowledge of construction and TAR processes and project controls

- Strong communications, interpersonal and team building skills

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 application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT JAN 17, 2025.

Internal candidates that are currently in a lower grade will be assessed based on their sustained job performance, how they demonstrate the expected organizational competency behaviors and values and in discussions with their current leader prior to determining next steps.

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:

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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The Cenovus experience

Total rewards

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

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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