Staff iSTO Long Range Planning Engineer

Worker Type: Employee

Job Post End Date: 08/22/2026

About this opportunity:

The Staff, iSTO Long Range Planning Engineer leads the integrated Shutdown, Turnaround, and Outage (iSTO) program for a designated CTCHO asset, developing and managing five-year turnaround and major maintenance plans, schedules, and budgets exceeding $100 million. As the iSTO lead for one of North America's largest SAGD assets, Foster Creek or Christina Lake, this role drives long-range planning strategy, outage optimization, and execution readiness while leading continuous improvement initiatives, mentoring engineers, and collaborating across Operations, Maintenance, and Engineering to improve asset reliability, operational performance, and business results.

This position requires occasional travel to the Foster Creek site as business needs dictate.

What you’ll do:

• Lead the development, optimization, and management of integrated 5-year Turnaround and Major Maintenance plans, schedules, and budgets for either the Foster Creek or Christina Lake asset.

• Develop and maintain production loss forecasting models by integrating Reservoir, Development, Process, and iSTO data to support outage planning and business decision-making.

• Establish preliminary scope frameworks and manage approved changes through the iSTO Change Request process to ensure alignment with schedule, budget, and operational priorities.

• Optimize outage strategies and schedules to minimize production losses, improve execution efficiency, reduce operating costs, and enhance marketing volume forecast reliability.

• Partner with Operations, Maintenance, Asset Integrity, Production, Process, Reservoir, and Development teams to align maintenance plans with asset objectives.

• Identify and lead OPEX reduction, maintenance budget optimization, and continuous improvement initiatives across CTCHO.

• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to team members, drawing on expertise in Operations, Maintenance, Asset Integrity, and Process Engineering.

• Engage and influence site and senior leadership through regular reviews, presentations, and cross-functional forums focused on turnaround strategy, production loss mitigation, and business performance.

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

• Legally authorized to work in Canada

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering and professional engineer (P.Eng.) designation in good standing with APEGA.

• Minimum 12 years of engineering experience, preferably within the SAGD, oil sands, or broader oil and gas industry.

• Broad technical knowledge across Asset Integrity, Process Engineering, Production Engineering, Facility Engineering, Management of Change (MOC), and Major Capital Projects.

• Strong analytical capabilities, including experience with data modeling, analysis, and visualization tools such as Power BI to support data-driven decision-making.

• Proven ability to influence and drive results across Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Corporate Planning organizations in a fast-paced, continuously evolving environment.

• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills, with experience presenting to senior leadership and leading cross-functional discussions to achieve alignment and business objectives.

Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT August 21, 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 $10,000 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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