Senior Rotating Equipment Reliability Engineer

Worker Type: Employee

Job Post End Date: 01/17/2026

About this opportunity:

Join Cenovus Energy as a Senior Rotating Equipment Reliability Engineer in Lima, OH. This outstanding opportunity allows you to champion rotating equipment reliability, collaborating closely with Operations, Planning, Maintenance, and Capital Projects teams. We are looking for an ambitious professional dedicated to optimizing equipment life cycles and ensuring flawless operations!

What you’ll do: 

• Drive reliability and operational goals of rotating equipment through effective engineering and maintenance strategies.

• Eliminate LPO events by conducting rigorous failure and root cause analysis.

• Optimize maintenance strategies to improve uptime and efficiency.

• Improve condition-based monitoring plans for early prediction of deteriorating conditions.

• Coordinate cross-functional teams to resolve technical equipment problems.

• Identify and implement improvement opportunities to improve refinery rotating reliability.

Who you are:

• Legally authorized to work in the US

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent experience.

• 8 years of Rotating Equipment experience

• Proven ability to mentor and collaborate with cross-functional teams

• Strong dedication to safety and quality

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

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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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 matching

• Long-term incentives

• Medical & dental coverage

• Life insurance

• Disability benefits

• Employee assistance program

• Virtual healthcare coverage

• Generous leave of absence programs

• Fitness membership reimbursement

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 assis