Supervisor, Laboratory

Worker Type: Employee

Job Post End Date: 08/01/2025

About this opportunity:

Cenovus is seeking a Laboratory Supervisor for our Superior, WI refinery. This position is responsible for leading the Quality Control Laboratory, overseeing a team of approximately 17 employees. As the Laboratory Supervisor, you will play a critical role in ensuring consistent product quality across all refinery operations through strong leadership, technical expertise, and a focus on continuous improvement.

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What you’ll do:

• Provide leadership and direction to the Laboratory, establishing strategic direction and ensuring reliable and efficient laboratory operations.

• Manages the Quality Control Laboratory, ensuring accurate test results are provided to internal and external customers according to a pre-established schedule, within the Laboratory’s operating budget, and utilizing safe laboratory practices.

• Maintain the Statistical Process Control/Quality Assurance program in all sections of the laboratory. Ensure adherence to standards, methods and practices for all the analytical procedures in the Quality Control Laboratory.

• Develop and maintain training programs to assure initial competency and ongoing proficiency for laboratory workers. Provides training and skill building on analytical standards, procedures, and practices, including equipment and technician/technical staff certification requirements.

• Develop and manage annual budgets that support the provision of adequate operational and capital expenditures to achieve the Laboratory's objectives.

• Allocate and balance lab resources. Develop and maintain staffing forecasts and ensure correct resourcing levels are adequate going forward.

Who you are:

• Legally authorized to work in the US.

• 7+ years of work experience.

• Experience in oil refinery, chemical plant or environmental related technical experience working in or with a laboratory.

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering or related field.

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 JULY 31, 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 a