Facilities Engineer, Christina Lake

Worker Type: Employee

Group: Facilities Engineering, CL Department

Job Post End Date: 06/15/2024

About this opportunity:

Cenovus is recruiting for a Field Facility Engineer to join our team in Christian Lake.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Facilities Engineering this role is accountable to provide mechanical engineering and process safety support to ensure safe, reliable, and productive operations of the Christina Lake SAGD facility. 

The position requires knowledge in SAGD engineering practices, mechanical design, repair codes & specifications, process safety fundamentals and risk assessment facilitation.  The desired applicant must have strong communication skills and will be expected to work collaboratively with Operations, Maintenance, Integrity, Calgary Engineering and SME’s withing the organization.  The position requires a Professional Engineer that can approve repair plans, provide day to day technical support on mechanical execution activities, lead operational risk assessments, create authenticated engineering deliverables for execution teams and manage a high volume of small/urgent projects.

Work Environment:

• This is a full-time employee position working a shift of 11 hours 25 mins per day, 8 days on, 6 days off, first and last day 5 hours 42 mins per day.  Thursday to Thursday

• Christina Lake is a fly in/ fly out remote camp-based position.

• Cenovus will provide transportation to site from designated hubs out of Calgary and Edmonton.

• Employees will be provided comfortable camp accommodations and recreational amenities.

What you’ll do:

• Provide immediate on-site technical support and expertise on facility non-routine repairs, mechanical alterations/workarounds, alternate products or materials and new equipment installations. 

• Provide guidance and design interpretation for piping and mechanical systems in accordance with corporate specifications, governing Codes, Acts and Regulations (e.g.: ASME B31.1, ASME B31.3, CSA Z662) and recommended practices.

• Engineering support of work processes prescribed the corporate technical programs such as Pressure Equipment Integrity Management System (PEIMS) and Pipeline Integrity Management Program (PLIMP).

• Prepare scoping packages for proposed projects: preliminary design, constructability review, business case validation and cost estimating work.

• Participate in/facilitate operational Risk Assessments and Project Hazard Assessments

• Steward to the Cenovus Management of Change (MOC) process

• Facilitate and approve abnormal operations and Engineer regulated job specific risk assessments to help ensure the safety of our equipment, personal and environment.

Who you are:

• Must be legally entitled to work in Canada

• Must have a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering

• Registered P. Eng and in good standing with APEGA.  EITs eligible for their P.Eng may be considered.

• A minimum of 4 years relevant mechanical engineering experience.  Field experience considered an asset.

• Knowledge in mechanical codes for pressure vessels, pressure piping, bolted joints, tanks, and online repairs

• Knowledge and experience of frequently used mechanical and piping design codes (B31.1, B31.3, CSA Z662, API).

• Working knowledge of SAGD processes and facility design.

• Experience with Process Safety management systems, including risk assessment and PHA facilitation.

• Competent to authenticate professional engineering results.

• Can interact and work collaboratively with operational teams and other specialists within the organization.

• Have a working knowledge of construction execution activities.

• 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 application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT June 14, 2024.

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