About this opportunity:

The Crude Oil & Diluent Scheduler at Cenovus is responsible for managing the safe and efficient movement of crude and diluent products to and from domestic and international hubs. Key duties include ensuring continuous operations, setting and executing nomination strategies, and optimizing supply plans for various commodities. The role involves direct interaction with senior personnel and external partners, particularly during operational issues. As a critical part of the Scheduling team, the Scheduler helps optimize the supply chain from crude acquisition to product placement, striving to improve operational performance, reduce costs, and build additional value.

What you’ll do:

• Act as the primary interface to internal functions, including Senior Cenovus personnel, as well as pipelines and terminals where we transport Cenovus commodities

• Participate in activities such as providing inventory visibility through management of liquid bulk commodity working capital

• Deliver reliable supply while at the same time minimizing working capital and improving commercial delivery through identifying optimization opportunities

• Awareness of physical exposures at all times to ensure optimization of asset operations

• Provide support and advice to traders by identifying daily physical position, and transportation capacity and utilize forecasts by asset

• Proven track record to implement trade strategies from concept to the execution stage in a risk-controlled manner

• Facilitation of crude, diluent, and product blending

• Nominate volumes for shipments to international/domestic pipelines and terminals that correspond with the TSL trade strategy

• Use in-depth knowledge of contracts, and work closely with Business Development and Trading to assess the various ways to optimize storage and transportation of assets

• Understand, track, and develop communications for key partners of Force Majeure, cuts/curtailments/increases, as well as supervise Pipeline outage report and assess their impacts to minimize risk to our production

• Use strong operational knowledge while being on-call 24/7 to handle any impacts related to operation of transportation and storage assets

• Strong understanding of commercial value drivers and ability to demonstrate this savvy while running interconnects between transport modes to ensure safe and timely handoff to/from pipeline, rail and marine, contributing to commercial targets in excess of $300MM/yr

• Confirmed commercial knowledge and competence to effectively influence others; making critical and timely decisions that mitigate production and consumption supply disruptions

• Schedule crude on upstream or downstream pipelines for short-term coverage

• Assist with reconciliation of best available volumes with mid and back-office functions and approve invoices within compliance-set delegations (>$15MM per invoice) without oversight

• Mitigate transportation position per transactional delegations of authority (transfers/swaps/buy & sells)

Who you are

• Must be legally entitled to work in the Canada

• University Degree in Business (Finance), Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, or Engineering preferred

• 3-5 years of experience in Oil & Gas, preference will be given to those with experience in a Trading & Scheduling Department.

• Strong ability to analyze sophisticated information & details, and present findings in a clear concise format

• Extensive knowledge of the pipeline’s rules and regulations

• Ability to respond optimally/efficiently to the needs of diverse clients with a focus on customer service

• Experience with liquid commodities

• Intermediate to Advanced MS Excel skills with familiarity of Visual Basic (VBA), SQL, R/Python and Power BI

• Price fundamentals and risk management knowledge will be an asset

• In-depth knowledge of U.S. and Canadian crude and diluent transport (rail/pipe) systems

• Sound understanding of logistical interfaces between pipe, rail and marine transportation interconnects

• ETRM experience including, Egistix, Allegro

Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT August 9th, 2024.

If you require accessibility assistance to complete the on-line application or otherwise apply for an open position with Cenovus, its subsidiaries and affiliates, please email careeropportunities@cenovus.com.

Internal candidates that are currently in a lower grade will be assessed based on their sustained job performance, how they demonstrate the expected organizational competency behaviors and values and in discussions with their current leader prior to determining next steps.

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 developing our assets in a safe, responsible and cost-efficient manner, integrating environmental, social and governance considerations into our business plans.

We've been named a Top Alberta Employer for 2024, a designation recognizing organizations leading their industries in offering exceptional places to work.

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At Cenovus, we embrace diversity of thought, experience and backgrounds to help us make better business decisions, address our challenges, seize opportunities and unlock innovative solutions. We’re committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace where people feel respected, valued and engaged. We strive for a collaborative, physically and psychologically safe environment where you can be yourself, feel a sense of belonging and thrive. For more information, including details on our inclusion and diversity targets and networks, 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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