Senior Development Engineer

Worker Type: EmployeeJob Post End Date: 12/04/2025

About this opportunity:

Reporting to the Manager, Lloyd Complex Development, and working with an integrated team, the Senior Development Engineer is responsible for integrating data across various functions in the Lloyd Thermal Oil sands space to maintain high-quality asset development plans that enable Cenovus to operate a smarter business.

The successful candidate will help build and analyze development plans and use those plans to optimize and maintain business cases for oil sands projects.

What you'll do:

• Collaborate with production, operations, process & forecasting teams to integrate data and assemble robust analyses to support decision makers and high-quality, predictive, development plan models for strategy, budget, and five-year planning purposes
• Develop and maintain predictive development plans for the Thermal Asset to forecast production, sustaining capital, and OPEX, and to support ESG initiatives, operating strategy enhancements, gate progression, and strategic alternative evaluations.
• Provide robust technical and economic insights to evaluate inorganic growth opportunities and divestiture scenarios, ensuring consistent, data-driven decision support across the asset lifecycle.
• Own the Monthly Production Review (MPR) process by facilitating cross-functional workflows, incorporating functional updates, socializing impacts ahead of review, and clearly communicating production and execution-timing outcomes.
• Synthesize and distill MPR results into clear, actionable insights for inclusion in monthly ULT reporting.
• Assume the role of Business Opportunity Manager for select oil sands projects, including annual subsurface optimization programs, facilities engineering programs, asset retirement obligation programs, and redevelopment well programs.
• Provide strategic oversight and coordination across these opportunities to ensure alignment with asset priorities, value delivery, and integrated execution planning.

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

• Legally authorized to work in Canada
• Bachelor's degree in engineering from a recognized institution
• Licensed Professional, registered and in good standing, with APEGA or APEGS
• A minimum of 8 years of Engineering or Geosciences experience in the Oil & Gas Industry
• Understanding of Development/Reservoir/Production/Process Engineering

We acknowledge the value of transferable 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 December 3, 2025.

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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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