Join Cenovus Energy as a Senior Manager of Technical Services and play a pivotal role in driving operational excellence at our Lima Refinery. In this leadership position, you’ll ensure the site has the technical expertise, innovative solutions, and resources needed to deliver safe, reliable, and responsible operations.

This role is accountable to integrate technical engineering resources across all areas of the refinery to enable extraordinary results through a thoughtful and systematic approach to problem solving and business improvement. The Technical Services department includes engineering and technical resources for unit operations, reliability program, process development, instrument and control, control system infrastructure, laboratory, inspection and reliability services.

The Senior Manager, Technical Services position will also be a member of the Refinery Leadership Team and is expected to be a key thought leader and significant contributor on a broad range of refinery operations, leadership, and business improvement topics.

What you’ll do:

Leader of the Technical Services team, including strategic planning, directing, and development of employees at the Lima Refinery. Collaborate with T&P and other site technical managers to develop Technical Authorities and technical training programs to support the Cenovus downstream business and staffing needs. Collaborate to help improve technical capability to other internal and external resources to support Lima’s technical needs
Refinery Technical Authority for any EP deviation approvals. Work with SME and system Technical assurance organization on verifying proper assessment and approvals are done on EP deviations. Support the tracking of EP deviations and engineering standards updates needed to improve the Cenovus EP’s
Assures appropriate organizational capability is maintained through recruitment, personnel development, and succession planning for the department
Provides, develops and helps lead appropriate programs to drive best in class EHS performance with a strong focus on process safety and reliability at the refinery
Ensures technical functional teams are building capability both within their function, Operations, Maintenance and the Business Teams. Leverage Central Technical and Projects Teams as needed
Ensures that all monitoring, troubleshooting, reliability, optimization, maintenance and turnaround activities are appropriately resourced by internal, Central T&P and external resources
Leads a culture that finds problems when they are small and identifies cost effective and technically sound solutions. Models curiosity and chronic unease to drive early identification of problems
Refinery Liaison with Cenovus Technical and Projects organization as well as other sites technical organization to drive Cenovus wide learning, improvement and development
Coordinates with Cenovus T&P to provide appropriate refinery resources for project front end development

Who you are:

Legally authorized to work in the US
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required
16+ years refinery and/or relevant engineering experience in progressive leadership roles required
Professional Engineer License 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 December 16, 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:

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 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.

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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:

Generous paid vacation
Annual bonus
Retirement savings plan matching
Long-term incentives
Medical & dental coverage
Life insurance
Disability benefits
Employee assistance program
Virtual healthcare coverage
Generous leave of absence programs
Fitness membership reimbursement

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 cenovus.com.

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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