Senior Maintenance Scheduler

Worker Type: Employee

Job Post End Date: 11/16/2026

About this opportunity:

Cenovus is looking for a dynamic and experienced Senior Maintenance Scheduler to play a key role in driving safe, reliable, and efficient operations across our Lloydminster Upgrader and Ethanol Plants. In this pivotal role, you will bring maintenance strategies to life by developing and coordinating effective work schedules, optimizing resources, and ensuring preventive and corrective maintenance activities are executed safely, efficiently, and on time. Your expertise will help maximize asset reliability, minimize downtime, and support the overall operational success of our facilities.

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Work Environment:

• This position is located in Lloydminster and requires the successful candidate to live in the area

What you’ll do:

• Lead routine, non-turnaround maintenance scheduling activities for the Upgrader complex, ensuring work is effectively prioritized and coordinated to support operational reliability.
• Facilitate notification reviews, daily schedule updates, and scheduling meetings, while developing and maintaining accurate draft and final maintenance schedules.
• Support outage and major maintenance job scheduling, coordinating work plans and communicating schedule requirements with warehouse personnel and Operations Maintenance Specialists.
• Build strong working relationships across multiple departments and external service providers, effectively communicating, negotiating priorities, and coordinating resources to ensure maintenance activities are executed safely and efficiently.

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:

• Legally authorized to work in Canada
• Journeyman Red Seal certification
• P.Eng or CET designation considered an asset
• 8+ years' experience as a Maintenance Planner
• Maintenance Planner Certification, Maintenance Management Professional (MMP) and/or Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) considered an asset

We acknowledge the value of transferable 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 November 15, 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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