Turnaround Specialist

About this opportunity:

The Turnaround (TAR) Specialist plays a key leadership role in the planning readiness and governance of turnaround close partnership with the Senior Turnaround Coordinator this role ensures activities are aligned well-prepared and executed in accordance with the turnaround charter milestone plans and organizational standards.

Acting as a central point of coordination across planning operations engineering and contractor teams the Specialist drives scope readiness risk mitigation and continuous improvement. This role also serves as the primary liaison for major initiatives led by the Turnaround & Major Maintenance teams ensuring clear communication alignment and successful delivery.

This role requires travel to all four Oil Sands sites to support planning and execution activities as required.

What youll do:

• Own and continuously improve TAR standards procedures and planning processes (including Ops planning scheduling and Plan-to-Plan).

• Support early planning with Operations and FMT including permitting contracting and industrial cleaning strategies and procedures.

• Lead the 18-Month Plan-to-Plan process ensuring activities are assigned tracked and aligned to milestones.

• Facilitate Steering and Core Team governance driving alignment communication and timely decision-making.

• Ensure turnaround scope aligns with the Charter is complete risk-assessed and meets criteria for inclusion.

• Drive execution readiness through risk identification mitigation planning and readiness audits.

• Ensure adherence to milestone plans baseline schedule and Turnaround Control Estimate (TCE) including approvals and communication.

• Integrate cross-functional teams into a single consolidated turnaround plan and communicate readiness and status to stakeholders.

• Support execution and oversee performance tracking and reporting (safety schedule cost) including post-turnaround reviews and lessons learned.

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

• Legally authorized to work in Canada

• Minimum of 12 years of leadership experience Turnaround and Maintenance planning scheduling and execution.

• Bachelors degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

• Proven experience with maintenance standard processes and leading optimization and alignment initiatives.

• Strong knowledge of maintenance reliability and project management principles.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

• Ability to travel to multiple sites as required.

We acknowledge the value of transferable 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 May 1 2026

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.

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Who we are:

Ranked as one of Canadas Best Employers in 2025 Cenovus is an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary. Were 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. Cenovuss downstream operations include upgrading refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States.

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The Cenovus experience

Total rewards

Were 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 outcomesfor employees and for the company as a whole.

Our culture

• Our purpose: We energize the world to make peoples 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 $1000 per event).

  • Receive donation matching up to $25000 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.

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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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