Manager, Project Controls

Worker Type: Employee

Job Post End Date: 12/23/2025

About this opportunity:

Cenovus is seeking a Project Controls Manager to lead the development, implementation, and improvement of project controls activities within our downstream location projects. This role provides leadership in estimating, scheduling, cost control, oversight of progress, and reporting while driving standard methodologies across the Downstream project portfolio. The position will be based at one of our Downstream locations in Toledo, OH; Lima, OH; Superior, WI; or Dublin, OH. Travel will average 20%, with occasional increases based on business needs.

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What you’ll do:

• Develops, implements, and improves project controls activities across Downstream Site Projects in the functional areas of estimating, scheduling, cost control, performance management, and reporting, ensuring an efficient, systematic, and standardized approach.
• Actively performs and leads team members to follow standard work processes and analyses efficiently. This helps identify performance gaps, provide insights, and improve all stages of Front End Development and Execution for projects within the collection.
• Applies strong leadership, interpersonal, influencing, and communications skills to mentor and develop team member capability and to interact with and support partners across the organization toward common performance goals.
• Develops estimating processes and tools, and provides competitive estimates of appropriate class across all project stages. Manages and directly determines estimating tools, data, updates from industry benchmarking, and provides strategies for materials and labor in each market of operation. Understands difference between norms, validates index shifts for materials and labor, and partners with procurement to improve strategies on purchasing and contracting, while providing actual data to further drive competitive improvements.
• Develops scheduling methods and resources, and builds and sustains fully coordinated schedules of appropriate level across all stages for all projects in the portfolio. Assures and develops people and schedules, performs quality checks on schedule details and interaction with cost.
• Develops cost controls processes and tools, and produces and maintains appropriate cost tracking, forecasting, change management, and reporting through stakeholders and finance across all projects and comprehensive portfolios wtih insights on trends and risks.
• Understands the project processes, desired outcomes, and driven benchmarking, and shows a strong focus on learning, continuous improvement, and goal-focused behaviors.
• Develops and leads a cadence of reviews, performance management, and reporting of metrics and KPI's to ensure understanding by project personnel and stakeholders of progress, gaps, risks, and performance compared to plan, including the areas of engineering, construction, and procurement. Develops strategy on measuring portfolio performance and project performance, both for risk and value.

Who you are:

• Legally authorized to work in the US
• Bachelor's Degree in a related field such as Engineering, Construction, or Business.
• 12+ years of experience that includes project engineering, project management, construction, and project controls (estimating, scheduling, cost control, and performance improvement), along with strong supervisory and leadership experience.
• Experience with cost management and scheduling tools (eg - SAP, Maximo, Primavera).

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 22, 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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