• Job Description

  Req#: R-409308
  Worker Type: Employee

  Job Post End Date: 07/22/2025

  About this opportunity:

  The Staff Drilling Engineer is responsible for driving technical excellence and supporting the delivery of drilling programs for both subsea and platform operations. This role involves developing and optimizing well designs and managing critical project interfaces to meet regulatory, safety, and operational objectives as well as supporting offshore operations, leading multi-functional technical integration.

  This position is located at our St. John, NL office.

  What you'll do:

  • Provide comprehensive technical support in well design planning and execution, with a focus on well integrity, regulatory compliance, and integration with subsea and topsides infrastructure.

  • Ensure Atlantic Region well delivery objectives are achieved through the Well Design and Execution Process.

  • Conduct detailed well design, manage regulatory submissions, and support risk identification and mitigations, while supporting operational execution through shore-based and offshore engagement.

  • Ensure seamless project delivery through planning, cost control, contract oversight, performance management and multi-functional collaboration.

  • Support the AR Engineering mentorship program, Emergency Response Team, and drilling contract and technical champion roles.

  • Training as required by the CAPP Standard Practice for Training & Qualifications of Personnel, Transport Canada, other regulatory requirements, and company required training as per the approved Cenovus Training Matrix and AR DCI Competency assessment.

  Who you are:

  Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum qualifications:

  • Legally authorized to work in Canada

  • Minimum 12 years of engineering experience in the oil and gas industry

  • Expertise in all aspects of well design planning, including collision avoidance, escaping planning, survey programming.

  • Skilled in advanced drilling equipment and operations for Horizontal/Extended Reach wells.

  • Competent in well integrity areas of well construction and operational execution.

  • Exposure and experience with non-drilling functional scopes, such as completion/intervention, subsurface and production engineering, integrity engineering, subsea well systems and associated operations

  • Experience with exposure to an offshore and/or harsh weather subsea and platform development environment.

  • A member in good standing or eligible for registration with Professional Engineers and Geoscientist Newfoundland & Labrador (PEGNL)

  We acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.

  This is a safety sensitive position and will be subject to offshore pre-placement Fitness for Work assessments, which includes drug and alcohol screening, a CAPP medical and BST/HUEBA testing

  You must be able to travel via helicopter and boat. This position requires the successful candidate travel offshore, there you will be required to obtain and maintain medical clearance and obtain all required training necessary for offshore travel.

  Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT July 21, 2025.

  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 resolving next steps.

  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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  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 .

  Consistent with the Accords Act, residents of Newfoundland and Labrador specifically and Canada generally, who are qualified, will be given first consideration for training and employment.

  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.

  Cenovus is the operator and majority owner of the White Rose field and extensions, located approximately 350 km offshore Newfoundland and Labrador. West White Rose is a concrete based drilling platform, which will access resources in the western part of the existing White Rose field and use the SeaRose floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for processing within our Atlantic Region Operations.

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  For more information, please visit cenovus.com.

  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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  If you are a CURRENT EMPLOYEE please apply by going to our Internal Career Site

• About the company

  Cenovus Energy Inc. In 2017, Cenovus purchased ConocoPhillips' 50 percent share of their Foster Creek Christina Lake oil sands projects and most of their conventional assets in Alberta and British Columbia, including the Deep Basin.

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