Staff Production Engineer

Worker Type: EmployeeJob Post End Date: 03/12/2026

About this opportunity:

As a Staff Production Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in maximizing value, safety, and operational excellence across Cenovus’s Conventional assets. In this senior technical role, you will lead the development and execution of base asset strategies, provide expert production and operations engineering support, and steward the performance of your geographic area’s P&L. You will apply advanced engineering judgment to optimize wells and field facilities, solve complex production challenges, and drive continuous improvement, all while collaborating closely with multidisciplinary teams across the organization.

This position requires strong technical depth, independent decision‑making, and the ability to influence without authority as you mentor others, guide engineering decisions, and help shape long‑term plans for a core growth area within the Conventional portfolio.

What you’ll do:

- Lead safe and compliant design and execution of production engineering activities, championing process safety and operational integrity.

- Steward P&L performance for your operating area, partnering with Field Operations to optimize production, operating costs, and capital projects.

- Provide advanced engineering support across wellbore, facilities, and pipeline systems, including troubleshooting, hydraulic modelling, artificial lift design, equipment sizing, and downhole intervention planning.

- Lead technical scoping, project design, cost estimating, economic analysis, and AFE preparation to support capital and optimization projects.

- Develop comprehensive resource development plans and long‑term asset strategies, including defining key infrastructure constraints and debottleneck opportunities, operating cost assumptions, optimized wellbore and facility designs, and conducting complex economic and process modeling across multiple scenarios.

- Guide and influence multidisciplinary teams to improve business processes, workflows, and operational performance, building alignment across stakeholders.

- Ensure regulatory compliance for wells, pipelines, and facilities while interpreting and applying corporate specifications, codes, and industry standards.

- Mentor and coach less experienced engineers, fostering a collaborative environment focused on knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

- Legally authorized to work in Canada

- Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) registered with APEGA or EGBC with the ability to authenticate process and mechanical engineering deliverables.

- Minimum of 12 years of relevant experience in operations, facilities, or production engineering. 15+ years of industry experience would be preferred.

- Strong working knowledge of upstream oil & gas operations, facility design, and production engineering principles.

- Proficient in applying industry codes and standards (e.g., ASME B31.3, CSA Z662).

- Strong troubleshooting, decision‑making, and communication skills with the ability to influence multidisciplinary teams.

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 March 11, 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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