Senior Development Engineer

About this opportunity:

Reporting to the Manager, Alberta Thermal Development, and working with an integrated team, the Senior Development Engineer is responsible for integrating data across various functions in the Alberta Thermal Oil sands space to maintain high-quality asset development plans that enable Cenovus to operate a smarter business. The successful candidate will help build and analyze development plans and use those plans to optimize and maintain business cases for oil sands projects.

What you’ll do:

• Collaborate with production, operations, process & forecasting teams to integrate data and assemble robust cases for decision makers

• Create high-quality, predictive, development plan models for strategy, budget, and five-year planning purposes

• Track, reconcile and communicate changes to team members between publications of the plan

• Build and maintain predictive development plans consistently for the Thermal Asset for use in forecasting production, capital requirements, opex and progressing strategic alternative evaluations

• Steward and manage the Monthly Production Review Process by facilitating multi-team workflows and clearly communicating impacts of changes

• Assume the role of Business Opportunity Manager for select oil sands projects and facilitate multi-team workflows supporting annual programs such as Facilities Engineering Projects

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

• Legally authorized to work in Canada

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering from a recognized institution

• Licensed Professional, registered and in good standing, with APEGA or APEGS

• A minimum of 8+ years of experience in Engineering or Geosciences in the Oil & Gas Industry

• Strong understanding of Development, Reservoir, Production or Process Engineering functions

• Knowledge in project planning & economics

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 April 10th, 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 resolving 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:

We’re an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary with oil and natural gas production operations in Canada and the Asia Pacific region, and upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States. We’re committed to maximizing value by sustainably developing our assets in a safe, innovative and cost-efficient manner, integrating environmental, social and governance considerations into our business plans.

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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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