Engineering Co-Op Student

Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Strathcona Resources Ltd. is one of North America’s fastest growing pure play heavy oil producers with operations focused on thermal oil and enhanced oil recovery near the Cold Lake and Lloydminster regions of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Strathcona is committed to doing business the right way, guided by our core values: Integrity, Energy, and Intelligence. These values define who we are as a company, how we work together, and how we make decisions: We prioritize respect, accountability, and collaboration. That means everyone can shape and strengthen our culture and drive results in meaningful ways. Our people bring energy and curiosity to solve problems and deliver results. Be part of a team where performance, collaboration, and innovation come together to drive success.

We are actively seeking an Engineering Co-Op Student to join our Production Engineering Cold Lake Team in Calgary. Reporting to the Team Lead, Production, this role is responsible for supporting production engineering activity for Strathcona’s Cold Lake SAGD assets. The role will work with field operations staff and the asset team to optimize the production rate, well design, reservoir efficiency, equipment longevity, and operating costs. 

We are looking for students to start in either January or May 2027 for 12- or 16-month terms.

Key Responsibilities

• Daily monitoring and reporting of area production volumes
• Work closely with field operations staff to trouble shoot well performance issues.
• Monitor well pair data quality to ensure that accurate instrumentation and testing data is collected.
• Create production, downtime, and workover dashboards in Tableau to improve team efficiency with data review and analysis.

• Assist production engineers with day-to-day requirements as needed.
• Project reviews and lookbacks.

Qualification Include

• Enrolled in a University Co-op or Internship program.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills – adaptable to a wide range of personalities.
• Thrive in a collaborative team setting, intrinsically motivated, enthusiastic, and a positive attitude.
• Good verbal and written communication and presentation skills.

Great things aren’t done by one person, they’re done by a team.

We believe meaningful results come from people with unwavering commitment to integrity, energy, and intelligence – how we show up matters just as much as what we deliver. We value our work, our communities, and our commitments – but most of all, we value the team of people who make what we do possible.

Apply to Strathcona

If you have what it takes to be a great Strathcona team member, we want to hear from you. We appreciate all interest in this opportunity but only those selected to advance through the process will be contacted.