Senior Manager, Deployed Health and Safety

Worker Type: EmployeeJob Post End Date: 09/04/2025

About this opportunity:

Cenovus is hiring a Senior Manager, Deployed Health, Safety, Environmental and Regulatory (HSER) for our refinery in Superior, WI. In this role, you will own the enhancement of our management systems and support the effective implementation of sophisticated safety systems and processes across the organization. You will influence the behaviors of the site Health and Safety team, as well as site leaders and employees, to develop a strong and lasting culture of safety. As the leader of the Health and Safety team, you will drive both occupational and process safety performance by setting site-specific goals, guiding performance measurement and trend analysis, and being responsible for audit and assurance activities to ensure compliance with requirements.

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What you’ll do:

- Lead HSE role at Superior facility. Responsible for quality of work execution of safety workflows such as MOC, HAZOP, LOPA, incident investigation, hygiene monitoring, injury classification, consent decree compliance, environmental reporting and management, etc.

- Responsible for delivering on the yearly strategic goals and objectives that are led by or supported by the site health and safety team.

- Provide functional coaching and steering to team members on technical topics such as occupational safety and health, process safety, emergency response, industrial hygiene, environmental compliance in addition to coaching on soft skills such as diplomacy, emotional intelligence, and presentation and influence techniques.

- Influence/Persuade site leadership decision making and action to ensure safety culture is reinforced.

- Define and oversee internal audit program (Line of Defense layers 1 and 2) over site conducted activities and management system practices. Serve as focal point for other corporately or externally conducted audits on H&S topics.

- Serve as site steward for COIMS management system principle application (15 elements) and interpretation of other corporate requirements.

Who you are:

- Legally authorized to work in the US

- Minimum 16 years of work experience, including at least 5 years supervising or managing individuals and 10 years in the oil and gas or chemicals industry.

- Post-secondary education or equivalent required, preferably a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Environmental, or Safety subject area.

- Working knowledge of regulatory requirements in oil and gas environment

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 SEPTEMBER 3, 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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