Senior Front End Development Engineer

About this opportunity:

Cenovus is seeking talent to support the Front-End Development (FED) organization at our Ohio Refineries. This role develops project scope, validates business needs, and creates cost-effective, sustainable solutions to optimize sustaining and commercial capital. Responsibilities include leading concept and design development (FED-1 and FED-2), supporting project execution and commissioning, and providing technical leadership and training support. The role partners closely with asset teams, SMEs, EHS, site leadership and commercial stakeholders to deliver aligned project solutions, complete economic analyses, and prepare cost and schedule packages for engineering and investment review.

What you’ll do:

• Lead Front-End Development (FED-1/FED-2), owning project scope, premise development, and option selection.
• Develop project justifications, problem statements, economic models, and cashflow analyses for project screening and approvals.
• Collaborate with asset teams, EHS, reliability, SMEs, and commercial stakeholders to validate assumptions, risks, and economics.
• Define and assess project scope to ensure risk resolution, asset availability targets, and sustaining capital optimization.
• Lead Select-phase option development to minimize cost and complexity while meeting technical and operational requirements.
• Develop margin improvement projects in collaboration with the wider FED team, central commercial organization and SME’s to support commercial improvement goals.
• Develop Basis of Design and develop/review key process engineering deliverables (PFDs, P&IDs, calculations, datasheets, relief systems).
• Perform process engineering quality assurance, including review of equipment sizing, alarm management basis, and PSI documentation.
• Provide technical support for MoC, detailed design, execution, and commissioning activities.

Who you are:

• Legally authorized to work in the US.
• Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical or Petroleum Engineering.
• 8+ years of experience in Refining process engineering with project development engineering.
• Strong technical computing literacy to support modeling, simulation and data analytics. Particularly valuable is expertise on Hysys or PetroSim, Exchanger Design & Rating (EDR), HTRI or similar tools.
• Process equipment design experience.
• Willing to travel approximately 15% of the time outside of the Ohio Refineries. Travel between the two Ohio Refineries as work requires, with one site being the person’s home site, and other site classified as travel when working at the other Ohio Refinery.

We 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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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 $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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