Field Technical Lead - Foster Creek, Canada - Cenovus Energy Inc.

Description

About this opportunity:

The Field Technical Lead is responsible for leading a team of field engineers, field technologists, and field drafts-people, ensuring the efficient management of field technical department. This role involves a combination of hands-on technical work, project management, and leadership to achieve organizational goals.

Work Environment:

• This is a full-time employee position working a shift of 8 days on 6 days off, 12 hours per day, last day is 8 hours , Wednesday to Wednesday
• Foster Creek has full-service camp facilities
• Depending on your place of residence and your shift rotation, bus and/or air transportation to/from site is offered from designated departure points in select locations
• Foster Creek is serviced by flight Hubs in Calgary and Edmonton

What you'll do:

Manage, mentor, and support the field technical team in the following capacities:

Safety:

• Active participation in Cenovus' work performance culture of safe work, safe work leadership.
• Support applicable safety training requirements for the technical group.

Technical:

• reviewing, understanding, and implementing design models, drawings, specifications, and standards for the purpose of construction,
• development and issue of construction work packages,
• development and implementation of construction score cards (quantities and man hours),
• evaluation of contractor estimates,
• management of contractor requests for information (RFI).
• troubleshooting constructability issues
• provide constructability support to construction supervision
• drafting and proposal of field -based design changes / modifications.

Change Management

• Adherence to and support of the PEP / CEP change management requirements and procedures.
• Execution of change management with respect to design scope and constructability.
• Communication of change requests to Construction Coordination Project Engineering and EP.

Communication- With project team groups including:

• engineering / design,
• project engineering,
• construction coordinators,
• construction supervisors,
• planners / schedulers,
• contracts and procurement,
• quality assurance,
• safety,
• warehousing.

Continues Improvement:

• Identify opportunities for process improvement and efficiency.
• Implement and promote best practices within the field technical team.
• Encourage a culture of continuous learning and skill development.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Manage and support embedded engineering and design contractors from the EP companies.
• Manage EP representative site visits when field work is required.
• Monitor regular contractor progress and project progress through the use of quantity install scorecards and communication with construction supervisors
• Understand the CCMT short term and long -term goals, commitments, requirements and be able to align action with those goals.

Who you are:

The list below indicates minimum requirements. Additional training requirements will be identified by Cenovus through Workday Assignments.

• Must be legally eligible to work in Canada
• H2S Alive
• First Aid
• WHMIS
• TDG
• SEFSAM
• PEIMS
• CET or P.Eng. designation preferred.
• 10+ years trade or technical related experience.

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 April 11th, 2024.

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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 sustainably developing our assets in a safe, innovative 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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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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