Staff Project Engineer

About this opportunity:

Cenovus is seeking a Staff Project Engineer to join our Lima refinery. This role is responsible for the safe and effective delivery of projects within Downstream Site Projects Execution, primarily at Lima Refinery while also supporting other sites, as assigned. The role leads assigned projects teams consisting of members across Cenovus departments and contractors to drive strong Project Management, stakeholder engagement, and best practices across scope development, engineering, construction, commissioning, and controls. The role delivers projects in conformance with Health, Safety, Environmental, and Regulatory expectations, with strong outcomes in quality, reliability, and operational performance, and within approved schedules and budgets, while driving to competitive benchmarks. 

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What you’ll do:

• The role acts as Project Manager for a portfolio of diverse and complex refinery projects.
• Projects are typically located at Lima Refinery but may also be at other sites, as assigned.
• Forms and leads a project team for all assigned projects and coaches, mentors, and drives the team along with high stakeholder engagement across all levels of the organization to successfully deliver each project.
• Ensures rigorous and efficient performance and delivery of project stages and gate approvals, and technical assurance by appropriate internal or external representatives.
• Promotes project progress with strong competitive benchmarking and best practices in areas of scope development, engineering, construction, commissioning, and controls.
• Ensures high-quality engineering, fabrication, and construction with successful project startups and lifecycle operations.
• Acts as safety leader with a focus on HSER performance in all stages of projects.

Who you are:

• Legally authorized to work in the US.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
• 12+ years of relevant experience in refinery or similar oil/petrochemical industry, including project engineering, management and/or construction, turnaround, operational, and technical leadership.
• Experience successfully executing a diverse range of projects, programs, and/or site activities.
• Experience managing engineering and/or construction activities with working knowledge of engineering deliverables and construction practices relevant to refining.
• Understanding of project best practices, ability to apply informal leadership and influence, strong stakeholder management skills, and proven experience to drive through challenges and ambiguous situations toward successful outcomes while managing a broad, fast-paced workload.

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 OCTOBER 7TH, 2026.

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

*Eligibility for Total Rewards varies by position. This role may not be eligible for all Total Rewards offerings.

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 $10,000 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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