Senior Project Engineer - Superior

Worker Type: Employee

Job Post End Date: 09/06/2025

About this opportunity:

Join Cenovus Energy as a Senior Project Development Engineer at the Superior Refinery. You will play a crucial role in front-end development, focusing on validating business needs and developing well-rounded solutions. Collaborating across teams, you will ensure alignment on project solutions and help maintain a competitive capital portfolio!

What you’ll do:

• Lead the development and front-end engineering phases of capital projects, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (EHS, Reliability, Asset Management) to validate project assumptions, scope, and economic feasibility.

• Identify and support capital opportunities by working with asset teams and technical resources to integrate into long-range planning.

• Prepare project justifications, economic models, and risk assessments to support decision-making and approvals.

• Oversee process design reviews, including PFDs, P&IDs, and equipment sizing; ensure compliance with engineering standards and process safety requirements.

• Conduct quality control checks on detailed design work, including relief calculations, flare loading, and alarm management.

• Drive margin improvement initiatives by partnering with SMEs and commercial teams to define cost-effective technical solutions.

• Support the Management of Change (MOC) processes and ensure design basis documents meet reliability and asset availability targets.

Who you are:

• Legally authorized to work in the US.

• Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical or Petroleum Engineering.

• 8+ years of experience in refining process and project engineering.

• Strong technical computing literacy for modeling, simulation, and data analysis.

• Willing to travel approximately 10-15% of the time outside of the base location.

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 September 5, 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.

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:

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 downstream operations include upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States. We are currently the largest refiner in Ohio and transport products from our refineries in Lima and Toledo, Ohio and Superior, Wisconsin via pipelines, rail cars and trucks to customers throughout the United States.

Other 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.

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