Worker Type: Employee

About this opportunity:

Join Cenovus Energy as a Staff USVC Network Planning Engineer. In this role, you will lead planning optimization efforts across multiple business units, collaborating closely with Supply Coordinators, Refinery Planners, and a broad multi-functional customer base. You will be responsible for maintaining the accuracy of Linear Programming (LP) models and assisting in making informed decisions based on risk. For this role, you will be required to bring strong influencing skills, adaptability, and a highly collaborative mentality to drive value in a dynamic environment.

What you’ll do:

• Own the planning cycle for two U.S. refining assets processing over 300kbd of crude, with an annual gross margin exposure exceeding $500 million
• Develop and issue optimized run plans on schedule in accordance with the planning calendar
• Actively participate in commercial, planning, engineering, and operations meetings to align strategies
• Partner with the Analytics team to evaluate past plan performance and identify optimization opportunities through variance analysis (budget vs. plan vs. actual)
• Collaborate with local Backcasting/Optimization Engineers to maintain and improve LP model fidelity
• Work with Refinery Planners, Crude/Product Supply Coordinators, and Marketing to develop robust, data-driven plans including sensitivity analysis and short-term optimization scenarios (e.g., breakeven and margin analysis)
  
  

Who you are:

• Legally authorized to work in the US
• 12+ years of experience in Refining, Downstream Supply or Production business environment, Commodity Marketing, or Products Marketing.
• University degree or equivalent experience in Engineering with a strong preference for Chemical Engineering.
• Previous work experience with IOCs or Western European Downstream companies.
• Ability to build, use, and run Spiral LP tools for supply chain modeling.
• Understand and interpret the economic impact of different Downstream Supply development options.
  
  

Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT May 12, 2025.

What we offer:

• Company-paid medical and dental
• Time-off
• 401K
• Tuition & Professional Development Assistance
• Employee Volunteer Hours
  
  

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Cenovus Energy is an affirmative action employer, and we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, veteran status, national origin, or personal or physical characteristics protected by law.

Who we are:

We’re an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary with oil and natural gas production operations in Canada and the Asia Pacific region, and upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States. We’re committed to maximizing value by sustainably developing our assets in a safe, innovative and cost-efficient manner, integrating environmental, social and governance considerations into our business plans.

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.

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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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