Senior Production Engineer (Calgary)

Senior Production Engineer (Calgary)

06 Nov
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Cenovus Energy
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Calgary

06 Nov

Cenovus Energy

Calgary

Worker Type: Employee

Job Post End Date: 07/22/2026

About this opportunity : The Conventional Production Engineering team is seeking a highly motivated Senior Production Engineer to join our Calgary-based team. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Conventional Production Engineering, you will play a critical role in maximizing the value of Cenovus' conventional assets by providing technical leadership, optimizing production performance, and supporting safe, reliable, and efficient operations. This is an exciting opportunity to influence business performance through asset strategy development, operational excellence, and collaboration with multidisciplinary teams across the organization.

What you’ll do :

- Promote safety and Process Safety as a core value in all engineering, design, and operational activities, including participation in Process Safety Event responses.
- Manage key aspects of the assigned area's P&L;, including production performance, operating costs, and operations capital to maximize asset value.
- Provide production, process, and design engineering support for wells and facilities, including troubleshooting, optimization, hydraulic pipeline modeling, compressor evaluations, and artificial lift design.
- Lead well intervention and production optimization programs, including cost estimating, program development, and execution support.
- Serve as the primary engineering stakeholder in the Management of Change (MOC) process, completing technical scoping, project design, economic analysis, and project execution.
- Manage project financial performance by preparing justifications, initiating AFE approvals, monitoring expenditures, maintaining accruals, and communicating budget variances.
- Ensure compliance with corporate standards, regulatory requirements, and industry codes, including ASME, CSA, API,



licensing, pipeline, facility, and GHG monitoring requirements.
- Collaborate with Operations, Finance, Joint Venture partners, Commercial teams, and the Integrated Operations Center (IOC) to optimize production, support resource development plans, and mentor less experienced engineers.

Who you are :

- Legally authorized to work in Canada.
- Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation in good standing with APEGA.
- Minimum of 8 years of production and operations engineering experience within the upstream oil and gas industry.- Demonstrated ability to authenticate mechanical engineering deliverables.
- Robust technical troubleshooting, analytical, and decision-making skills with the ability to solve complex operational challenges.

We acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.

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

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 y

📌 Senior Production Engineer (Calgary)
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📍 Calgary

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