Senior Process Safety Engineer - Relief System Technical Authority

About this opportunity:

Cenovus is hiring a Senior Process Engineer - Relief System Technical Authority for its Toledo refinery. This role serves as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on pressure relief systems providing technical leadership, ensuring compliance, risk communication, and continuous improvement of safety processes. The engineer will mentor staff, interact with senior leadership, and drive technical solutions to enhance process safety and system efficiency.

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What you'll do:

• Maintain Relief and Flare System technical documentation for the site. This includes the PSV database and flare model. Ensure that relief valve and flare information from all pertinent plant changes are included in the documentation.
• Provide PSV technical support for Unit Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) revalidations and internal and external audit reviews.
• Support the planning, preparation, and execution of turnarounds, as related to PSV technical issues and advise projects teams on relief valve sizing and compliance for the site.
• Provide mentoring on PSV sizing, relief systems, and dispersion analysis to Operations and Technical personnel and utilize process models for defining overpressure scenarios, such as HYSYS and Petrosim.
• Actively drive PSV Governance Team to prioritize and manage risk reduction, and work in conjunction with the site PSV Mechanical Authority and Mechanical Engineering Team.
• Applies scientific rigor to evaluations despite business pressure and constraints; prioritizes and sets clear direction, and boundaries in delivery of results; provide PSV troubleshooting advice to Operations and Technical personnel, including PSV block-in approval requests and alternative relief path assessments.

Who you are:

• Legally authorized to work in the US
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering required. Chemical Engineering preferred.
• Minimum 8 years' experience working in refining or relevant industry.
• Comfortable with driving cross discipline interactions, leading multidiscipline teams and providing recommendations to senior leadership.

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

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.

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.

What we offer:
• Company-paid medical and dental
• Time-off
• 401K
• Tuition & Professional Development Assistance
• Employee Volunteer Hours

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Cenovus Energy is an affirmative action employer, and we are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants without regard to age, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, veteran status, national origin, or personal or physical characteristics protected by law.

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.

We are currently the largest refiner in Ohio and transport products from our refineries in Lima and Toledo, Ohio and Superior, Wisconsin via pipelines, rail cars and trucks to customers throughout the United States.

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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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