Senior Maintenance Planner

Worker Type: Employee

Job Post End Date: 08/27/2025

About this opportunity:

Reporting to the Thermal Maintenance Planning Coordinator, the Senior Maintenance Planner partners with Operations staff, Maintenance Sr. Coordinator, Maintenance Technicians, and Schedulers to review, prioritize and plan maintenance activities in a designated area. Creating, modifying SAP Plan maintenance work order packages so they can be scheduled and implemented. Prioritize in coming request and lead work order backlogs.

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Work Environment:

- This position is located in Lloydminster and requires the successful candidate to live in the area

- This role is field based and could work at any of the facilities in the Lloydminster area

- This is a full-time employee position working a 5-2 shift rotation

What you’ll do:

- Work with Maintenance Technicians, Maintenance SR. Coordinators and Operations to develop job plans and planned work packages for all trade fields

- Develop SAP Maintenance task lists for repetitive routine tasks. Driving continuous improvement on planning master data Library

- Participate In daily/weekly maintenance Work Management meetings with Operations, Maintenance and Schedulers to discuss ongoing activities, prioritize activities, review upcoming planned work for the next two weeks and identify maintenance requirements which may have been overlooked

- Participate in monthly cost review and annual budget development meetings with Finance, Maintenance Sr. Coordinators and Operations.

- Identify and sustain Key performance indicators

- Develop BOMs Bill of Materials, master data, create Stocking material requests and attach to equipment records

- Create SAP work packages that includes resources, materials, hours, costs, defined activity steps to planned work order package

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

- Legally authorized to work in Canada

- Post-secondary diploma in Technology, Power Engineering or Journeyman Trades in a mechanical discipline or relevant

- Experience with a Computer Maintenance Management System (CMMS), such as SAP PM, Maximo

- Working knowledge of the EWR and MOC processes

- Familiarity with Thermal and Conventional Oil operating principles

- Strong understanding of operational integrity, reliability and safety processes and procedures

- Minimum 8 years’ experience with maintenance philosophies, standards, strategies, practices, and processes within the energy industry

- Minimum 8 years of solid understanding of applicable energy industry Codes, Standards, Regulations, and Acts; design and construction practices; pressure and rotating equipment; electrical; instrumentation and controls; and operating process principles

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 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, August 26th, 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.

If you require accessibility assistance to complete the on-line application or otherwise apply for an open position with Cenovus, its subsidiaries and affiliates, please email careeropportunities@cenovus.com.

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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