Senior Maintenance Planner - E&I Rotating
About this opportunity:
We are seeking a Senior Maintenance Planner – Electrical/Instrumentation/Rotating to support safe, reliable, and efficient refinery operations through the planning and coordination of proactive and corrective maintenance activities at the Lloydminster Refinery. This position works closely with operations, engineering, and maintenance teams to prioritize work, resolve plant vulnerabilities, and ensure maintenance tasks are fully prepared for execution.
The successful candidate will apply high reliability organization principles to enhance safety and productivity, while developing detailed work plans that eliminate delays related to materials, tools, permits, and coordination. This position also supports continuous improvement of maintenance procedures and standards, ensuring alignment with COIMS requirements and leveraging data analysis to drive performance.
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Work Environment:
This position is located in Lloydminster and requires the successful candidate to live in the area.
This is a full-time employee position.
What you’ll do:
Plan and coordinate preventative and corrective maintenance activities using the maintenance work management process to ensure safe, efficient, and reliable execution.
Identify hazards and risks, develop detailed job plans with Job Hazard Analysis (JHA), and incorporate control of work requirements into all maintenance planning.
Support contractor management, including selection, onboarding, and oversight, while conducting field inspections to identify unsafe conditions and system gaps.
Ensure process safety compliance by planning Safety Critical Element PMs, adhering to Electrical Safety Code of Practice, and following Management of Change (MOC) procedures.
Manage work order planning to meet MWMP targets and KPIs, while maintaining accurate equipment history, failure coding, and supporting reliability improvement initiatives.
Collaborate with Purchasing, Warehouse, and vendors to ensure availability of materials and spare parts, optimize inventory levels, and approve external maintenance services.
Who you are:
Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:
Legally authorized to work in Canada
Minimum 8 years of experience in a heavy process industry environment, including at least 5 years applying maintenance management methods, standards, strategies, and best practices.
Journeyperson Trades Certification (Interprovincial preferred), ideally as a J/M Electrician or J/M Instrumentation Technician; J/M Millwright also considered.
2-year Engineering Technology Diploma from a recognized post-secondary institution, specializing in Electrical or Instrumentation.
Strong commitment to safety with a solid understanding of regulatory requirements, safety standards, and safe work practices.
Minimum 5 years of experience in planning, scheduling, coordination, or supervision of multi-trade work groups, including development and sustainment of maintenance management systems.
We acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.
As this position has been identified as safety sensitive, employment of a final candidate selected for this position will be conditional upon successful completion of required pre-employment medical and alcohol/drug assessments.
For this position you will be required to maintain a Class 5 driver's license, a satisfactory driving record, and adhere to the appropriate Company policies and guidelines. A driver's abstract will be one of the background checks requested in the pre-employment screening for the final candidate.
Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT April 14, 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.
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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:
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.
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