Operations Engineer

Headquartered in Calgary Alberta Strathcona Resources Ltd. is one of North Americas fastest growing pure play heavy oil producers with operations focused on thermal oil and enhanced oil recovery near the Cold Lake and Lloydminster regions of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Strathcona is committed to doing business the right way guided by our core values: Integrity Energy and Intelligence. These values define who we are as a company how we work together and how we make decisions: We prioritize respect accountability and collaboration. That means everyone can shape and strengthen our culture and drive results in meaningful ways. Our people bring energy and curiosity to solve problems and deliver results. Be part of a team where performance collaboration and innovation come together to drive success.

We are actively seeking an Operations Engineer to join our Lloydminster Thermal team. Reporting to the Manager Production Lloydminster Thermal this role is responsible for supporting operations engineering activities across the assets. The successful candidate will work closely with field operations to support the chemical treating strategy across the assets. The engineer will also provide technical support in the areas of troubleshooting risk analysis process de-bottlenecking and optimization.

This position will be based in the Lloydminster office with regular travel to Edam Meota and Plover field sites.

Essential Functions:

• Maintain a strong interface with the field operations team providing daily engineering technical support to improve plant treating performance

• Lead regular meetings with chemical suppliers operations and production engineering teams to support the implementation and optimization of chemical programs across the SAGD facilities

• Coordinate and lead data analytics projects focused on real-time plant monitoring throughput optimization and KPI tracking

• Identify process optimization opportunities and support Management of Change (MOC) projects

• Facilitate various technical meetings including technical reviews information sharing sessions risk assessments and planning discussions

Qualifications and Skills:

• Bachelors degree in Engineering with a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience preferably in SAGD operations

• Registered or eligible for registration as a Professional Engineer with APEGA or APEGS or as a Professional Technologist ()

• Highly self-motivated with excellent time management analytical and problem-solving skills

• Direct field experience with chemical treating and operations technical support is considered a strong asset

• Strong analytical skills; experience using software tools such as PI Systems Databricks and Tableau is valued

Great things arent done by one person theyre done by a team.

We believe meaningful results come from people with unwavering commitment to integrity energy and intelligence how we show up matters just as much as what we deliver. We value our work our communities and our commitments but most of all we value the team of people who make what we do possible.

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If you have what it takes to be a great Strathcona team member we want to hear from you. We appreciate all interest in this opportunity but only those selected to advance through the process will be contacted.