Senior Production/Process Engineer

About this opportunity:

Cenovus’ Atlantic Region is seeking a Senior Production or Process Engineer for the St. John's, NL office. As a Senior Production or Process Engineer, you will provide expertise to the Production Operations teams both onshore and offshore. These teams are responsible for the operations of the SeaRose FPSO, as well as the future West White Rose asset.

What you’ll do:

The Production or Process Engineer supports the Atlantic Region onshore and offshore teams, primarily focusing on ensuring safe and efficient production operations. This support extends from the subsea assets/flowlines through to topsides processing and gas handling.

The role supports the offshore and onshore teams with various operational issues, including but not limited to items such as:

• Optimizing topsides processing equipment efficiency and uptime

• Alarm and trip management

• Troubleshooting subsea flow assurance issues

• Providing production chemical support to ensure optimized dosage, environmental stewardship, and contract management

• Participation in incident investigations, and risk assessments (HAZOP, PHAs, What ifs)

The Production or Process Engineer also supports the development or updating of procedures and work instructions. The role requires frequent collaboration with other departments such as Subsea Operations, Engineering, Subsurface, Maintenance, West White Rose Operational Readiness and Assurance, and Developments.

This position provides the opportunity to engage in or assume ownership over several forward-thinking systems such as the Online Subsea Advisor (providing subsea leak detection capabilities and hydrate monitoring during both steady state and transient conditions), the Emissions AI program (providing indication of emissions deltas using artificial intelligence), and other exciting projects that embrace Cenovus’ value of Make It Better.

Who you are:

• Must be legally entitled to work in Canada.

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering.

• Professional Engineer or eligibility for status with PEG-NL is required.

• 8-12 years related experience in oil/petrochemical industry - emphasis on flow assurance (multiphase flow) and production chemistry considered an asset but not required.

• Knowledge of subsea facilities and well operations, including interventions, completions, and workovers.

• Thorough understanding of production equipment and systems on an offshore installation.

• Understanding of reservoir behaviors, conditions, and limitations.

While not mandatory, experience in the following areas would be considered an asset:

• Experience with subsea and/or topsides models or multiphase software (for example, OLGA, HYSYS, Multiflash/PVTSim, etc.)

• Experience with PVT fluid concepts and/or background in production chemistry

• Experience with flow assurance analysis and/or previous experience in managing flow assurance studies/scopes with a third-party

• Experience with gas processing system optimization

• Programming in Python, Databases, Visual basic

• Data Analytics and Visualization skills (PowerBI, Spotfire, etc.)

Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT July 3rd, 2024.

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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, with the focus on identifying opportunities for development and career advancement within the organization.

Consistent with the Accords Act, residents of Newfoundland and Labrador specifically and Canada generally, who are qualified, will be given first consideration for training and employment.

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.

We've been named a Top Alberta Employer for 2024, a designation recognizing organizations leading their industries in offering exceptional places to work.

Cenovus is the operator and majority owner of the White Rose field and extensions, located approximately 350 km offshore Newfoundland and Labrador. West White Rose is a concrete based drilling platform, which will access resources in the western part of the existing White Rose field and use the SeaRose floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for processing within our Atlantic Region Operations.

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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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