Reservoir Engineer-in-Training

About this opportunity:

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Reservoir Forecasting, the Reservoir Engineer-in-Training supports forecasting and optimization work across Cenovus’s thermal assets, including Foster Creek, Christina Lake, Lloyd, and Sunrise. Your primary responsibility is to generate robust production forecasts with appropriate uncertainty ranges, impacting critical inputs into the business plan, budgeting cycle, capital funding, and redevelopment programs.

This role offers broad exposure to both forecasting and reservoir optimization. Approximately 25% of your time will focus on ResOpt support for a group of producing pads, working closely with geoscientists and production engineers to diagnose performance, identify opportunities, and improve recovery. You’ll also contribute to the development and improvement of analytical tools, workflows, and best practices that increase accuracy, efficiency, and the overall value delivered by the Forecasting Team.

What you’ll do:

• Conduct pad reviews by analyzing long‑term performance trends, comparing results to forecasts, evaluating recovery over time, and identifying opportunities to improve conformance, reduce SOR, or increase production.

• Develop and history match models to forecast performance for producing pads, supporting technical evaluations and identifying value‑add optimization opportunities.

• Prepare well‑level forecasts and economic assessments for redrill and redevelopment opportunities on your assigned pads.

• Collaborate with Production Engineering, Geoscience, and Reservoir Development teams to share insights, troubleshoot, and ensure strong multidisciplinary alignment.

• Support improvements to forecasting tools, workflows, and best practices, helping enhance efficiency and technical consistency across the team.

• Manage workload and priorities effectively to deliver high‑quality results aligned with asset needs and organizational value.

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

• Legally authorized to work in Canada.

• Registered Engineer-in-Training with APEGA.

• Possess a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, with Petroleum Engineering discipline preferred.

• Minimum of 2 years of experience post-graduation in thermal SAGD and reservoir engineering. Exposure to production engineering would be an asset.

• Familiarity with forecasting or simulation workflows would be an asset.

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 February 20th, 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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