Staff Reservoir Engineer

Worker Type: Employee

Job Post End Date: 10/29/2025

About this opportunity:
Reporting to the Manager, Reservoir Engineering, the Staff Reservoir Engineer will unlock value from our resource base through competitor analysis and technical reviews, and influence optimal well designs. This role will develop accurate production forecasts at the well and field level, and implement reservoir operating strategies, including potential for enhanced oil recovery (EOR).

What you'll do:

• Translate strategy and priorities into development plans and actions to maximize the value of Conventional Heavy Oil assets by working with asset team members (Reservoir, Geoscience, Production, Field Operations, Mineral Land and Well Delivery).
• Provide reservoir engineering guidance to evaluation and design of Conventional Heavy Oil projects and long-range planning (production and reserves forecasting, etc.)
• Leverage reservoir simulation and/or empirical modeling to inform well and field design optimizations and improvements.
• Participate in project lookbacks and competitor analysis to improve well costs, design and performance.
• Technical assurance of critical reservoir engineering deliverables including analog analysis, type curve generation, well design optimization and risk management to ensure development economics sufficiently capture and balance scope, cost, value, risk and uncertainty.
• Ensure forecasts are reflective of current performance and develop economic evaluations in support of land sales and business development opportunities.

Who you are:
Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

• Legally authorized to work in Canada.
• Professional Engineer (P. Eng.) accredited with APEGA/APEGS.
• Minimum 12 years of reservoir engineering experience, ideally with Cold Heavy Oil assets, and experience in economic evaluation.
• Proficiency in AccuMap OR GeoScout, PVR, SCADA, Power BI, Value Navigator OR Mosaic.
• Experience in reservoir simulation and designing and implementing water/polymer flood operations would be considered an asset.

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 MONTH DAY, YEAR.
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:
Ranked as one of Canada's Best Employers in 2025, 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 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. Cenovus's downstream operations include upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States.

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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:

• Paid vacation (including a flex day program for eligible staff)
• Health & dental benefits
• Substantial mental health coverage
• Life insurance
• Disability benefits
• Employee family assistance
• Virtual healthcare coverage

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 assistance for additional development
• Opportunities to work on special projects
• Leadership development programs for emerging and established leaders

We actively promote internal job movement, recognizing the value of gaining new perspectives, building connections across teams, and applying expertise in new ways. As a fully integrated energy company, we believe that sharing knowledge across our business and operations creates stronger outcomes—for employees and for the company as a whole.

Our culture

• Our purpose: We energize the world to make people's lives better.

• Our values:

• Protect what matters

• Do it right
• Make it better

• Do it together

• Cenovus Cares: We believe in the power of purpose-driven work. Our Employee Giving and Volunteering Program, Cenovus Cares, connects our people to our purpose, inspiring action and elevating impact year-round.

• Support causes you care about with volunteer opportunities in and outside of work.

• Earn donation grants while volunteering (up to $1,000 per event).
• Receive donation matching up to $25,000 annually.
• Staff resource groups: We have various staff resource groups to help ensure our people feel a sense of belonging and can grow and do their best work. These voluntary groups are employee-led and all groups are open to all staff in all locations.

Equal opportunity employer
We believe a workplace where everyone has merit-based opportunities to grow, achieve career aspirations and feel a sense of belonging benefits our people, our company and the regions where we live and work. We embrace and encourage different perspectives and approaches, which help us make better business decisions. We believe that through this approach, we can solve challenges, seize opportunities and unlock innovative solutions.

To achieve an unbiased and respectful workplace, individuals are evaluated based on qualifications, merit and abilities, and we encourage applications from all qualified candidates. We also acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.

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The requirements of this posting may be modified to support business needs. Title and compensation administration will be based on the skills and capabilities of the successful incumbent.

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