Team Lead, Rotating Equipment

Worker Type: Employee

Job Post End Date: 03/10/2026

About this opportunity:

Cenovus is hiring for a Team Lead, Rotating Equipment for our Toledo Refinery to oversee safe and reliable rotating equipment maintenance and lead daily operations of the Cenovus Machine Shop. The role develops and supports machinists and millwrights while guiding repair strategies in partnership with engineering. It also manages preventive maintenance for refinery machinery and coordinates field and shop activities to ensure efficient execution.

What you’ll do:

• Ensure strong health, safety, and environmental performance; lead safety investigations, audits, and machine shop safety initiatives.

• Lead and manage the UNION Machinist craft, including training, coaching, performance management, grievance handling, and adherence to labor agreements.

• Oversee all Machine Shop operations—budgets, tooling and equipment procurement, calibration compliance, staffing, scheduling, and administrative recordkeeping.

• Coordinate maintenance planning and execution by preparing jobs, assigning craftsmen, verifying materials, and communicating changes to ensure safe, high‑quality, timely work.

• Partner with engineering, maintenance leads, planners, and operations to troubleshoot equipment issues, define scopes of work, and support continuous improvement.

• Manage machinist training programs, including CDT skill development, identifying competency gaps, and documenting progress.

• Monitor and report performance metrics, drive process improvements, and implement enhanced job methods, tools, and maintenance techniques.

• Participate in scheduling, emergency response, and technical evaluations while ensuring accurate work documentation and effective backlog and resource management.

• Manage Contracted Union Millwrights through their Supervisors.

• Manage Specialty Contractors (Field Machining), (Compressor Overhaul Crews) (Civil Crews for equipment Grouting) etc.

Who you are:

• Legally authorized to work in the US

• High School Diploma or equivalent

• 7+ years relevant experience in a refinery of like heavy industrial setting environment

• Machinist / Millwright apprenticeship

• Working in or alongside union represented craft

• Coaching, directing, appraising, and counselling employees

• Working knowledge of Centrifugal and Reciprocating Compressors, Gear Boxes, and API Pumps.

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

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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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The Cenovus experience

Total rewards

We’re committed to being an employer of choice through competitive compensation and our comprehensive total rewards package, including:

• Generous paid vacation

• Annual bonus

• Retirement savings plan matchin