About this opportunity:
Reporting to the VP, Canadian Refining, the Senior Manager, Turnaround will be accountable to scope, develop, optimize, and implement outages and turnarounds. This includes detailed shutdown, maintenance execution, start up plans and schedule for the Lloydminster Refinery, Upgrader and Lloyd Ethanol Plant. This will be done in close collaboration with key stakeholders, with a goal to safely and effectively completing turnarounds on schedule and budget, driving to achieve step change improvement in benchmarked outages. The Senior Manager will also be the field execution lead for all events with expectation to be on site during these events including accountability for integrating all contractor performance as well as Cenovus site maintenance, projects and operations teams.
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Work Environment
This position is located in Lloydminster and requires the successful candidate to live in the area.
What you’ll do:
Ensure adherence to the Turnaround delivery model and all Turnaround work processes with regular reviews to align with business objectives.
Identify opportunities for interval extension between turnarounds, define and update strategic long-range plans.
Ensures the implementation and ongoing development and compliance with the Cenovus Operations Integrity Management System (COIMS).
Support the development of the Turnaround goals, scope, and premise documents to support the Turnaround.
Manage governance of assigned capital and expense projects for the Turnaround and ensuring required resources are identified and partnering with the facility to meet demands and commitments.
Drive compliance to the Turnaround Milestone Schedule and Turnaround Premise.
Develop and deliver Turnaround overview presentations, ensuring alignment through effective communication with site, corporate and senior leadership.
Define Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure Turnaround effectiveness and ensure safety, environmental compliance and adhere to Process Safety Management standards.
Create Executive Summary reports and ensure historical data is archived for future Turnaround planning.
Support turnaround standardization and improvement by engaging in technical networks, cross-functional projects and driving a consistent lesson learned process.
Develop Contracting Plans and Technical Bid documents and support Supply Chain Management in the overall procurement of service contracts.
Lead Steering team(s) for each turnaround to support readiness and to effectively manage risks.
Provide leadership, coaching, and development to the team, ensuring performance and goals align with business priorities through regular feedback and mentoring.
Understand what a world class turnaround event looks like and is accountable to develop and implement a please with their team to achieve this for the 2028 Upgrader TA.
Who you are:
Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:
Legally authorized to work in Canada
Minimum 16 years of leadership experience in managing multi-disciplinary teams supporting turnaround planning, scheduling, and execution or alternately combination of other technical, maintenance or projects leadership experience.
Extensive experience in change and project management.
We acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.
As this position has been identified as safety sensitive, employment of a final candidate selected for this position will be conditional upon successful completion of required pre-employment medical and alcohol/drug assessments.
For this position you will be required to maintain a Class 5 driver's license, a satisfactory driving record, and adhere to the appropriate Company policies and guidelines. A driver's abstract will be one of the background checks requested in the pre-employment screening for the final candidate.
Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT November 14, 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 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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