Specialist Area Outage

Posting End Date:

November 30, 2025

Employee Type:

Regular-Full time

Union/Non:

This is a non-union position

We are looking for an Area Outage Specialist to join our team in Calgary AB, Fort Saint John, or Kamloops BC.

The Area Outage Specialist is accountable to ensure the safe, reliable, efficient, and profitable operation of Westcoast assets by strategically managing outage coordination & planning, communication to internal and external stakeholders, and ongoing analysis and recommendations on business and process improvements. 

This is an outstanding opportunity to step in into meaningful role on one of North America’s most critical natural gas transmission systems with increasing demand! We offer opportunities for growth, a competitive benefits and pension plan, and generous time off. Apply today, we'd love to hear from you!

What You Will Do:

• Strategically lead, develop, integrate and optimize all outage and/or curtailment activities while ensuring safe, reliable, efficient, profitable and responsible operations across the Westcoast BC Pipeline system.

• Support the delivery of Westcoast’s Asset System Strategy while balancing commercial, operational, and organizational objectives.

• Outage Coordination and Planning - lead and maintain monthly and annual outage planning processes ensuring stakeholders are actively engaged and opportunities and synergies are realized by:

  • Delivering comprehensive and timely annual and monthly outage plans.

  • Managing relationships with commercial, field operations, gas control, projects, and external customers.

  • Communicate threats to plan to key stakeholders working to drive resolution ensuring safety is priority and minimizing any impacts to the business.

• Customer & external communication - actively manage operation’s customer relationships to ensure alignment of their expectations with Westcoast’s throughput capabilities, by:

  • Educating and informing on relevant outages, business impacts and opportunities, working to minimize business impact and production interruptions.

  • Facilitating meetings with internal stakeholders encouraging collaboration and pursuit of operational synergies.

  • Identifying when contract obligations cannot be met, understanding implications and collaborating with commercial to develop an appropriate solution.

  • Provide presentations on outage plan to all internal and external stakeholders and various levels of leadership. Stakeholders include Operations, Account Managers, Tolls and Tariff Task Force, and Vice President.

• Business Systems, Processes & Opportunities:

  • Develop and maintain outage management systems, applications, reports, and governance documentation including processes, plans, and guides.

  • Lead strategic business and operational improvement opportunities by providing analysis and recommendations for achieving improved cost performance, operational performance, and revenue enhancements.

Who You Are:

• Related university degree and ten‐plus years’ experience OR ten‐plus years of previous field operations experience, OR equivalent mix of formal education and experience

• Demonstrated leadership competency with a strong safety culture

• Excellent interpersonal skills and proven relationship building abilities

• Strong analytical, decision making and problem-solving skills.

• Superior communication skills – written, verbal and presentation.

• Strong business acumen, recognized change agent, highly motivated

• Experience working in Natural Gas Industry and software such as Athena or Microsoft Project is highly desirable

Working Conditions:

• Candidates located outside Calgary should expect to travel to Calgary monthly to collaborate with critical stakeholders such as Commercial, Projects, Business Development, Gas Control, and Capacity Modeling
• This role is office-based but may require travel to field locations across British Columbia or Enbridge offices across North America to ensure support is delivered successfully.

Flexwork

Enbridge provides competitive workplace programs that differentiate us and offer flexibility to our team members. Enbridge’s FlexWork (Hybrid Work Model) offers eligible employees the opportunity to work variable daily schedules with a flexible start and end time, to opt for a compressed workweek schedule, and the option to work from home on Wednesdays and Fridays. Role requirements determine your eligibility for each option or combination of options.

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At Enbridge, we are dedicated to our core value of Inclusion. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing employment opportunities to all qualified individuals, without regard to age, race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, veteran status, Indigenous status, disability, or any other reason protected by federal, state, or local law. Applicants with disabilities can request accessible formats, communication supports, or other accessibility assistance by contacting careers@enbridge.com.

Information For Applicants:

• Applications can be submitted via our online recruiting system only.

• We appreciate your interest in working with us; however, only those applicants selected for interviews will be contacted.

• Final candidates for this position may be required to undergo a security screening, including a criminal records check.

To learn more about us, visit www.enbridge.com