Staff Program Manager

Worker Type: Employee

Job Post End Date: 09/06/2025

About this opportunity:

The Program Integration team defines and coordinates planning and execution of integrated program scope for multiple business units including Upstream and Conventional. The team is accountable to integrate the various functional teams into a cohesive project team to effectively deliver projects.

You will lead the project team through the entire project lifecycle from origination; working with the Business Opportunity Manager and Scoping Managers to define the project scope, and with multidiscipline project execution teams and enabling functions to define the project design and execution plan ultimately delivering the project that delivers on the business case.

What you’ll do:

- Lead the integrated cross functional, multidisciplined project team with members from across the organization including but not limited to Land, Regulatory, Environment, Well Delivery, Geology, Reservoir, Production, Safety/Security/Emergency Response, Operations, Offsites from scope development through execution

- Demonstrate strong leadership with the ability to quickly build effective project teams that are working together to deliver on common project goals

- Accountable to translate business requests into cross functional project plans and schedules within funding and budget guidelines for projects with annual budgets >$200MM

- Manage and champion the project management framework respecting the project stages and gates and completing the associated deliverables (project plans, risk reviews, management of change, design basis, lessons learned, etc)

- Coordinate and support the execution teams through execution planning to ensure projects are ready for field execution for safe project completion on time and on budget.

- Ensure communication and ongoing alignment between project objectives and stakeholder requirements to manage change, resolve issues, identify, and mitigate risks

- Balance priorities while managing multiple programs involving different stakeholder groups for different assets

- Prepare and coordinate the development of project approval presentations and documentation for gate reviews, investment committee and project performance meetings for Senior Management and Executive approvals

- Act as single point of contact and decision maker within approved scope for resolution of key project issues requiring coordination, consolidation, and data analysis

- Provide direction to project planners and cost advisors to Manage and Report on Scope, Cost, Schedule for assigned projects/programs

- Work with other program managers and well delivery disciplines to drive consistency, efficiency, and across all well delivery managed or executed scope

- Implement improved processes where gaps are identified and apply previous project learnings to new projects

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

- Legally authorized to work in Canada

- Registered Engineer P.Eng (APEGA, APEGS) or Technologist

- Minimum 12 years' experience, preferably in Well Delivery execution and/or subsurface

- Proven leadership in aligning multi-disciplined work groups

- Strong strategic understanding of company direction and ability to translate goals into team objectives

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 5, 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:

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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