Senior Front End Development Engineer

About the role

Cenovus is seeking talent to support the Front-End Development (FED) organization at our Ohio Refineries. This role develops project scope, validates business needs, and creates cost-effective, sustainable solutions to optimize sustaining and commercial capital.

Responsibilities

• Lead Front-End Development (FED-1/FED-2), owning project scope, premise development, and option selection.
• Develop project justifications, problem statements, economic models, and cashflow analyses for project screening and approvals.
• Collaborate with asset teams, EHS, reliability, SMEs, and commercial stakeholders to validate assumptions, risks, and economics.
• Define and assess project scope to ensure risk resolution, asset availability targets, and sustaining capital optimization.
• Lead Select-phase option development to minimize cost and complexity while meeting technical and operational requirements.
• Develop margin improvement projects in collaboration with the wider FED team, central commercial organization, and SME’s to support commercial improvement goals.
• Develop Basis of Design and develop/review key process engineering deliverables (PFDs, P&IDs, calculations, datasheets, relief systems).
• Provide technical support for MoC, detailed design, execution, and commissioning activities.

Requirements

• Legally authorized to work in the US.
• Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical or Petroleum Engineering.
• 8+ years of experience in Refining process engineering with project development engineering.
• Strong technical computing literacy to support modeling, simulation, and data analytics. Particularly valuable is expertise on Hysys or PetroSim, Exchanger Design & Rating (EDR), HTRI or similar tools.
• Process equipment design experience.
• Willing to travel approximately 15% of the time outside of the Ohio Refineries.

Qualifications

• Expertise on Hysys or PetroSim, Exchanger Design & Rating (EDR), HTRI or similar tools.
• Process equipment design experience.
• Strong technical computing literacy to support modeling, simulation, and data analytics.
• Willingness to travel approximately 15% of the time outside of the Ohio Refineries.

Skills

• Technical computing literacy.
• Process equipment design.
• Modeling, simulation, and data analytics.
• Expertise on Hysys or PetroSim, Exchanger Design & Rating (EDR), HTRI or similar tools.

Benefits

We acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.

Pay

The pay for this role may vary based on the skills and capabilities of the successful incumbent.

Schedule

The schedule for this role may vary based on the skills and capabilities of the successful incumbent.

Company Information

We are 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 downstream operations include upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States. We are currently the largest refiner in Ohio and transport products from our refineries in Lima and Toledo, Ohio and Superior, Wisconsin via pipelines, rail cars and trucks to customers throughout the United States. Other 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.

About Cenovus

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal opportunity employer and encourage applications from all qualified candidates.