Worker Type: Employee

Job Post End Date: 05/05/2026

About this opportunity:

Cenovus Atlantic Region is seeking a Staff Production Engineer for its St. John’s, NL office. In this role, you will provide production engineering expertise to the Subsurface Engineering team, supporting both the ongoing management of subsea wells and the development of the West White Rose field. The successful candidate will deliver day-to-day production engineering support for existing operations while contributing to the advancement of the West White Rose project. Key responsibilities include well integrity management, production optimization, collaboration with Production Operations, and supporting well program execution and operability for West White Rose.

This position is located at our St. John’s, NL office.

What you’ll do:

• Optimize production, injection (water/gas), and artificial lift performance through integrated field planning and production modelling.

• Identify and execute production improvement opportunities, including well interventions, workovers, and operational strategies.

• Evaluate and implement production optimization opportunities within the Integrated Production Model, including nodal analysis for current and future wells.

• Support well testing, measurement, allocation, and production data analysis for reporting and performance tracking; lead production studies.

• Conduct well design and support execution, including sandface completions design, barrier design, equipment sizing, and artificial lift selection (gas lift, ESP).

• Support well construction, start-up, and operations by identifying risks, developing mitigation strategies, and incorporating learnings into future well plans.

• Maintain and execute well integrity and flow assurance programs, including barrier management, anomaly assessment, and intervention planning.

• Interface across subsurface, DCI and facilities teams to support risk reviews, brownfield upgrades, and ongoing production engineering needs, while contributing to future development and continuous improvement initiatives.

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum qualifications:

• Legally authorized to work in Canada

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required; Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) designation or eligibility with PEG-NL is required

• Minimum 12 years of relevant industry experience, including at least 10 years in offshore production engineering

• Significant experience in offshore subsea and platform developments within well design and execution, interventions/workovers and life cycle management

• Significant experience with subsea developments and FPSO operations within production allocation, production optimization and well integrity management

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable recommendations

• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and build effective relationships across teams

• Adaptable and able to perform in a dynamic, changing environment

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 May 4, 2026.

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.  

If you require accessibility assistance to complete the on-line application or otherwise apply for an open position with Cenovus, its subsidiaries and affiliates, please email [email protected].

Consistent with the Accords Act, residents of Newfoundland and Labrador specifically and Canada generally, who are qualified, will be given first consideration for training and employment.

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. 

We are the operator and majority owner of the West White Rose field and extensions, located approximately 350 kilometres offshore Newfoundland and Labrador. West White Rose is a concrete based drilling platform, which will access resources in the western part of the existing White Rose field and use the SeaRose floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for processing within our Atlantic Region Operations.

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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.

If you are a CURRENT EMPLOYEE, please apply by going to our Internal Career Site.