Senior Staff Business Opportunity Management Engineer/Geoscientist

About this opportunity:

The primary responsibility of the Senior Staff Business Opportunity Manager (BOM) role is to work across Conventional Heavy Oil (CHO) functions to develop, lead, and deliver strategies & projects that enhance the value of the asset. BOM functions include articulating business cases for opportunities, collaborating with a variety of teams, progressing projects through the stage gate approval process and capital management of the project portfolio.

Success in this role requires collaborating and building alignment with functional teams that include Sub-surface Development, Asset Development, Well Delivery, Major Projects, and Operations while driving consistency of the BOM functions across projects and the CTCHO assets. The successful candidate will leverage their technical expertise and knowledge of CVE processes (resource development, stage gates, capital management, long range planning, etc.) to provide mentorship and build robust business cases will be critical to success in this role.

What you’ll do:

• Manage cases (qualitative and quantitative) throughout the project lifecycle, from initiation to benefits realization, while coordinating with project and scoping managers to communicate changes impacting the case

• Lead project teams to progress projects and provide support to the Project Manger in defining objectives and stewarding projects through capital governance and stage gate approval processes

• Ensuring changes are reflected in capital budgets and securing corporate approvals that impact Project Approval Request (PAR) level deliverables

• Manage asset and/or project capital for the budget and business plans by working with Project Managers to ensure spend is in line with project and Budget approvals

• Provide monthly forecast capital updates with guidance from upstream planning and project integration to communicate drivers for capital variance, and work with project and scoping managers to identify and communicate levers to increase or decrease capital

• Work closely with the development and execution teams to establish and progress the overarching CHO asset strategy, and cost reduction/value enhancing initiatives

• Lead and/or participate in full-life strategic framing sessions for the asset to develop long-term strategies beyond the 5-year window

• Support organic and inorganic growth scenario evaluations, including stewarding early-stage EOR project screening and prioritization

• Maintain a comprehensive technical understanding of the entire CHO project portfolio, including opportunities, risks, uncertainties, and interdependencies.

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

• Legally authorized to work in Canada

• Licensed Professional Engineer or Geoscientist registered with APEGA is required

• 16+ years in an upstream technical, asset development or project management role(s). A diverse technical background, with previous Conventional Heavy Oil or SAGD experience is considered an asset

• Proven ability to bring people together, influence others without authority and build consensus to drive change

• Established track record of working collaboratively, in a fast-paced environment where priorities change frequently, on innovative solutions for complex or ambiguous problems

• Experience with capital management and optimizing project value is required

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 18th, 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.

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