Senior Geologist
1 week ago
Worker Type: EmployeeJob Post End Date: 11/28/2025
About this opportunity:
Reporting to the Senior Manager, New Ventures Exploration, the Senior Geologist will be accountable for developing grass roots exploration drilling opportunities, supporting A&D and Corporate Strategy efforts, and screening/scoping new impactful business opportunities (Company, Play, Basin, Country, and Technological assessments). This role will provide reliable subsurface asset characterization, evaluation, commercial development plans, production forecasts, and related project economics.
What you'll do:
- Identify New Venture Exploration opportunities by quantifying risk/reward propositions, working with various teams to understand & apply appropriate costs for value determinations
- Conduct mapping, subsurface model generation, and prospect generation in carbonate and clastic depositional systems
- Evaluate and integrate technical data, including log and core interpretation, petrophysics, seismic, and production data to characterize subsurface opportunities
- Evaluate and quantify risk and propose risk mitigation strategies
- Undertake asset planning for all new opportunities and manage workflows from early exploration to asset development
- Conduct well planning & drilling operations for vertical/horizontal/multi-lateral wells, estimating in-place and resource volumetrics, and understand key uncertainty parameters
Who you are:
Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:
- Legally authorized to work in Canada
- Minimum 8 years of experience in a successful technical role.
- Bachelor's degree in Geology, Geosciences, or equivalent.
- A member in good standing or eligible for registration with APEGA.
- International multi-basin experience is 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 November 27, 2025.
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.
For more information about working at Cenovus, visit .
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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