Manager, Turnaround Planning and Engineering

Worker Type: Employee

Job Post End Date: 01/18/2026

About this opportunity:

Cenovus is hiring a Manager, Turnaround (TAR) Planning and Engineering for our Toledo refinery. This role is responsible for development and implementation of efficient, consistent, and competitive planning and engineering systems, standards, and processes for TARs and NCE Events. The individual manages the discipline specific planning team, is responsible for working with the Asset, Engineering, and Inspection teams to develop outage Premise, assess incoming scope items, implement risk based scope selection process, align key deliverable milestones, manage planning, engineering, and quality KPIs, and for providing assurance.

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What you'll do:

• Responsible for development and implementation of efficient, consistent, and competitive planning, quality, and engineering systems, standards, and processes for TARs and NCE Events.

• Handles the discipline specific planning team

• Responsible for coordinating critical breakthrough accomplishments, leading all aspects of planning, engineering, and quality metrics, and ensuring quality control at every stage.

• Coaches, mentors and supervises team members, ensure technical subject matter support, and ensures proper resourcing and assignments are made and performance is achieved in support of all Turnaround events.

• Is responsible for creation of detailed plans for Turnaround execution including coordinating with appropriate fields and teams to determine technical requirements, proposing resourcing strategies, assessing and sourcing materials and service requirements, and building detailed plan steps and Phase 1 schedules.

• Participates and contributes to lessons learned and benchmarking. Provides insight and analysis of how the plan evolved over time and any issues that came up during the execution of the turnaround and implements learnings into future plans.

Who you are:

• Legally authorized to work in the US

• Minimum of 12 years of experience in turnaround, project and/or maintenance planning and execution

• Bachelor of Science degree in Construction Management or an Engineering field

• Working knowledge of construction and TAR processes and project controls

• Strong communications, interpersonal and team building skills

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 JAN 17, 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 pr