Worker Type: EmployeeJob Post End Date: 10/09/2026
About this opportunity:
As a Maintenance Coordinator, you will play a key leadership role in supporting safe, reliable, and efficient operations across the region. You will lead maintenance activities within your assigned area, working closely with maintenance trades, contractors, Planning, Operations, and other key stakeholders to ensure work is executed safely, effectively, and in alignment with operational and License to Operate requirements.
You will provide leadership, coaching, and direction to maintenance teams and contractors while helping drive strong maintenance execution, equipment reliability, and continuous improvement. This role also provides an opportunity to influence how maintenance work is planned and executed, including coordinating Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) activities and identifying opportunities to improve overall operational performance.
Work Environment:
- This is a full-time employee position based in Rainbow Lake, AB working 14 days on 14 days off days/nights shift rotation.
- The successful candidate must reside in Rainbow Lake while on shift.
- Please note, this is not a camp role and not a fly-in/fly-out position.
- While on rotation in Rainbow Lake, you will stay in company-provided housing. Please note that meals are not included and will be your responsibility.
- The successful candidate will need to commute to and from the community for each rotation or reside in Rainbow Lake.
What you’ll do:
- Act as the key link between Maintenance Planning and Maintenance Execution to support Operations and ensure safe, efficient execution of maintenance activities.
- Provide leadership, coaching, and supervision to maintenance trades, full-time equivalent contractors, and third-party contractors.
- Steward the Cenovus safety culture and ensure compliance with maintenance procedures, safe work practices, and operational integrity requirements through field engagement, worksite observations, and on-the-job coaching and training.
- Provide oversight of Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) and defect elimination activities to identify and address recurring equipment and maintenance issues.
- Support vendor contract development, onboarding, and ongoing performance, including oversight and technical approval of vendor invoices.
- Provide oversight of asset health, with a focus on large rotating equipment and condition-monitoring activities such as oil sampling and analysis, valve recession, and vibration monitoring.
- Support the Planning for Safety process to ensure maintenance activities are appropriately planned and executed in accordance with safety requirements.
- Support projects and construction activities through the design and commissioning of new facilities, ensuring maintenance and operational requirements are effectively incorporated.
Who you are:
Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:
- Legally authorized to work in Canada
- Interprovincial Red Seal and/or provincially recognized Journeyperson certificate in a relevant trade.
- Minimum 8+ years of experience in oil and gas and/or petrochemical production facilities, with a focus on maintenance execution, including at least 3 years in a leadership role.
- Dual-ticket certification is considered an asset.
- Business or technical diploma, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) training, such as Reliability Center Inc. or equivalent, is considered an asset.
- Experience with project management and supporting projects through execution and commissioning.
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 October 8, 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 $10,000 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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