Worker Type:
Employee Job Post End Date: 01/24/2026
About this opportunity:
The Senior Staff Process Engineer will provide technical depth and leadership in Front-End Development (FED) across our refinery assets, with a particular focus on large and complex capital project scopes. This role will bid, select and manage contractor performance as well as prepare work to progress project in FED . In addition, the Senior Staff Process Engineer partners with Senior Managers in FED to address performance issues and maintain consistency across the portfolio.
What you’ll do:
Develop project scopes, justifications, and Basis for Design (FED1/FED2), validating business needs, assess options, and define sustainable, low-cost solutions that strengthen the capital portfolio
Define and control scopes, schedules, and costs, ensuring safe site access and effective transition of work across project phases
Work with asset teams, Reliability, EHS, Procurement, and technical SMEs to align on project scope, risk management, compliance requirements, and engineering standards
Review and approve key engineering documents (PFDs, P&IDs, H&MBs, equipment sizing, process safety data), performing quality control on design deliverables, safeguarding work, and flare system studies
Participate in MOC, Haz Ops, and regulatory updates (PSM, RMP), ensuring engineering contractors document and follow design and safety standards
Prepare economic models to analyse return and complexity, and screen projects for the capital portfolio and long-range plan
Identify and develop projects that improve asset performance, margin growth, and strategic downstream initiatives
Who you are:
Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:
Legally authorized to work in Canada
Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical or Petroleum Engineering
A member in good standing or eligible for registration with APEGA or APEGS
Minimum 16 years of refining process engineering and project engineering experience
Experience in multiple process units and a broad working knowledge of refinery unit operations
Strong technical computing literacy to support modeling, simulation and data analysis
Willing to travel approximately 30-50% of the time
We acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.
As this position has been identified as safety sensitive, employment of a final candidate selected for this position will be conditional upon successful completion of required pre-employment medical and alcohol/drug assessments
For this position you will be required to maintain a Class 5 driver's license, a satisfactory driving record, and adhere to the appropriate Company policies and guidelines. A driver's abstract will be one of the background checks requested in the pre-employment screening for the final candidate
Note:
The Final date to receive applications for this position is 11:59 PM MT January 23, 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.
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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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