About this opportunity:
Reporting to the Senior Manager, Conventional Heavy Oil Geosciences, this position will lead a high functioning team of Geoscientists focused on developing Cenovus’ significant heavy oil resources to improve value through primary and Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) development while continuously looking for and assessing new opportunities. This role facilitates the subsurface reservoir characterization, geological & geophysical data acquisition, and the refinement of mapping methods.
What you’ll do:
Lead the planning and execution of new well development programs, including IWP direction, appraisal strategy, development sequencing, and observation wells (for EOR optimization), ensuring alignment with engineering and development decisions
Oversee stratigraphic well planning, 3D seismic strategy, and future surveillance across the Lloyd heavy oil block, ensuring annual updates to well opportunities, surface pad layouts, and resource estimates to support Cenovus’s 5-year Long-Range Plan
Support the optimization of existing EOR floods and evaluate opportunities for expansion and new greenfield EOR plays in collaboration with subsurface and production engineering teams
Lead and mentor a multi-disciplinary team in the evaluation, planning, and design of optimal subsurface development strategies
Generate scope for base production optimization through redevelopment, redrills, re-completions, and multilateral development within existing fields
Handle the redevelopment scope handoff from subsurface to well delivery, working closely with reservoir and asset development teams to ensure opportunity readiness and accretive alignment with business plans
Conduct annual program lookbacks to drive continuous improvement in pad development, appraisal efforts, and IWP placement
Manage all regulatory, land, and commercial interfaces, including development-related regulatory applications, joint venture partnerships, land sales/swaps, core-up activities, and A&D evaluations across the Conventional Heavy Oil region
Who you are:
Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:
Legally authorized to work in Canada
A Bachelor’s Degree in Geology or Geophysics
Registered P. Eng and in good standing with APEGA or other Provincial Professional Geoscience Organization
Minimum 12 years of experience, with a preference for Conventional Heavy Oil or SAGD experience
Advanced level skills in Geoscience Technical Competencies with depth of knowledge of multiple geoscience disciplines
Initiative-taking, self-disciplined, and able to demonstrate a high level of productivity
Strong organization skills, with the ability to set priorities, follow-up and meet deadlines
Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, capable of conveying complex information concisely to diverse audiences
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 August 8, 2025.
Internal candidates that are currently in a lower grade will be assessed based on their sustained job performance, how they demonstrate the expected organizational competency behaviors and values and in discussions with their current leader prior to resolving next steps.
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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