Reliability Engineer

Overview

About this opportunity :

Reporting to the Manager, Reliability Engineering, the Reliability Engineer will lead analysis on equipment failures, identify and implement operational improvements and use reliability methodology to maximize equipment reliability contributing to continuous improvement. The role will make recommendations, implement, track, and conduct post assessments to ensure recommendation effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Lead Root Cause analysis on equipment failures to contribute to continuous improvement.
• Implement recommendations to complex problems, track, and look back to ensure effectiveness.
• Provide technical support to others throughout the business unit.
• Analyze equipment performance based on operating data and maintenance history, identifying and investigating bad actors.
• Identify and implement ideas to improve operational performance, increase availability, and reduce costs.
• Provide guidance during turnarounds and unplanned equipment outages regarding repair solutions.
• Provide input to a risk management plan that will anticipate risks that could adversely impact plant operations.
• Determine the function, capability, functional failure modes, probability of failure, impact severity, and acceptable risk for assets to define the right maintenance requirements to eliminate functional failures and their effects.
• Utilize reliability engineering strategies to assess and maximize equipment reliability.
• Systematically define, design, develop, monitor, and refine an asset maintenance plan.
• Establish and monitor key performance indicators for assets.
• Assist in the financial justification of asset reliability upgrades and improvements using lifecycle costing.

Qualifications

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 January 30, 2026.

About Cenovus

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.

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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 :

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 :

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

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.

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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