Superintendent, Maintenance

About this opportunity:

Cenovus is looking for a Superintendent, Maintenance (LTCHO) to our team in Lloydminster.

Working with the Director, Maintenance & Reliability, the Superintendent, Maintenance (LTCHO) will be accountable for the safe and environmentally compliant execution of all maintenance within the asset. This will include both plant and offsite equipment across Thermal and CHO.

This position is a key contributing member of the Lloyd Leadership Team and is accountable for all process maintenance activities (Steam/Water treatment - Deoiling/Field/Utilities), all major maintenance execution (MM) and all turnarounds (TA).

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What you'll do:

• Accountable to provide direction regarding the defined maintenance strategies and plans by setting objectives, stimulating focus on plant uptime and maintenance cost per barrel
• Interface professionally with other partner groups including Production Operations, HSE, Engineering Groups, NPI, Regulatory, Construction, CSU, Finance & Accounting, Supply Chain Management etc.
• Accountable to develop annual M&R Opex Budget expenditures
• Responsible to support forecasting, accruals, budget management, reporting
• Accountable for implementing and improving upon Maintenance & Reliability program strategy
• For all new assets, accountable for ensuring that maintenance strategies & plans are developed, optimized and in place prior to ramp up, including the establishment of on-site maintenance support
• Accountable to support program work processes, standards, and procedures
• Consistently apply Workplace Management Procedures to ensure quality of workmanship and compliance with policies, procedures, and visions and values. Ensure practices are consistent with environment, health and safety requirements
• Support overall M&R Plan, such as asset criticality, maintenance strategy development, PM Development, condition monitoring, spare parts selection, and turnaround management
• Accountable to support development of the M&R program's HSE policies and procedures
• Identify safety, Environmental Health & Safety, permit and communication requirements and integrate them into M&R plan
• Accountable to develop and maintain an improvement strategy
• Responsible for providing annual strategic objectives & critical metrics
• Monitor and report on progress regularly
• Accountable to review and improve program performance using performance measures
• Conduct reviews and analysis to increase efficiency in use of services and equipment, improve equipment availability to achieve budgeted targets
• Accountable for Preventative & Predictive Maintenance (PM & PDM) program execution
• Execution of the Preventative Maintenance Program, in line with processes, providing feedback to improve PM Program accuracy & quality.
• Accountable for safe work execution on site
• Find opportunities to improve safety in work practices; participate in the incident command leadership team and regularly review the procedures for life safety, emergency response and fire safety plan
• Accountable for department's performance management process
• Conduct and / or participate in team meetings to communicate updates and relevant standard or operational changes; develop meeting architecture, including scorecards, critical metrics, challenges and successes
• Accountable for Human Resource Management
• Ensure the maintenance team is properly resourced, equipped, safety inducted and introduced to plant personnel
• Ensure effective coordination and optimal utilization of all resources including contractors and vendors
• Provide and ensure effective leadership, performance management, career development and succession planning of personnel resources
• Be responsible for and direct hiring activity, training and development and performance management across leadership team
• Accountable for the overall performance of contractor-based workforce, ensuring the appropriate qualifications, standards, practices and metrics are recognized and followed.
• Ensure maintenance competency assurance program (CAPM) is managed and adhered to address any gaps; target key performance indicators to ensure safe execution of work
• Accountable for the department's compliance to all corporate policy commitment targets, all H&S workplace safety training targets
• Respond to emergency situations as necessary and raise communication of issues and their resolution as required

Who you are:

• Must be legally eligible to work in Canada
• A minimum of 12 or more years of proven leadership experience in a team environment
• A minimum of 12 or more years of experience in heavy industry
• Must have either a trades background in a heavy industry discipline in Engineering or Operational background combined with plant experience
• Solid experience in negotiating complex solutions from conflicting priorities
• Knowledge with either cyclic and or SAGD Thermal Oil recovery processes will be an asset
• 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 April 9, 2024.

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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.

Who we are:

We're an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary with oil and natural gas production operations in Canada and the Asia Pacific region, and upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States. We're committed to maximizing value by sustainably developing our assets in a safe, innovative and cost-efficient manner, integrating environmental, social and governance considerations into our business plans.

We've been named a Top Alberta Employer for 2024, a designation recognizing organizations leading their industries in offering exceptional places to work.

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