Senior Manager, Deployed Health and Safety

Worker Type: Employee

Job Post End Date: 09/04/2025

About this opportunity:

Cenovus is hiring a Senior Manager, Deployed Health, Safety, Environmental and Regulatory (HSER) for our refinery in Superior, WI. In this role, you will own the enhancement of our management systems and support the effective implementation of sophisticated safety systems and processes across the organization. You will influence the behaviors of the site Health and Safety team, as well as site leaders and employees, to develop a strong and lasting culture of safety. As the leader of the Health and Safety team, you will drive both occupational and process safety performance by setting site-specific goals, guiding performance measurement and trend analysis, and being responsible for audit and assurance activities to ensure compliance with requirements.

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What you’ll do:

• Lead HSE role at Superior facility. Responsible for quality of work execution of safety workflows such as MOC, HAZOP, LOPA, incident investigation, hygiene monitoring, injury classification, consent decree compliance, environmental reporting and management, etc.
• Responsible for delivering on the yearly strategic goals and objectives that are led by or supported by the site health and safety team.
• Provide functional coaching and steering to team members on technical topics such as occupational safety and health, process safety, emergency response, industrial hygiene, environmental compliance in addition to coaching on soft skills such as diplomacy, emotional intelligence, and presentation and influence techniques.
• Influence/Persuade site leadership decision making and action to ensure safety culture is reinforced.
• Define and oversee internal audit program (Line of Defense layers 1 and 2) over site conducted activities and management system practices. Serve as focal point for other corporately or externally conducted audits on H&S topics.
• Serve as site steward for COIMS management system principle application (15 elements) and interpretation of other corporate requirements.

Who you are:

• Legally authorized to work in the US
• Minimum 16 years of work experience, including at least 5 years supervising or managing individuals and 10 years in the oil and gas or chemicals industry.
• Post-secondary education or equivalent required, preferably a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Environmental, or Safety subject area.
• Working knowledge of regulatory requirements in oil and gas environment

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 3, 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 an