Group: Engineering & Technical Services - Toledo Department
Job Post End Date: 10/02/2024
About this opportunity:
The Manager, Mechanical & Reliability Engineering role manages all aspects of the team, including direction-setting, personnel development, oversight of work quality, establishment of standards, development and implementation of improvements, and measurement of results. The Mechanical & Reliability Engineering Manager shares the objective of achieving the business goals, including HSSE, Availability and cost management. This position is responsible for leading the site Reliability strategy.
What you'll do:
The Manager, Mechanical and Reliability Engineering provides mechanical technical support and leads the reliability strategy development and implementation for the site. They manage all aspects of the M&R Engineering team including direction-setting, personnel development, oversight of work quality, establishment of standards, development and implementation of improvements, and measurement of results. This role will develop and implement best practices, lead diverse teams to troubleshoot and improve plant performance/processes, support unit outages/Turnarounds, and support the overall refinery initiatives. Overall scope includes all process units at the refinery. This position is key to improving the plant's asset availability.
Work with asset leadership to assure assigned mechanical engineers are meeting the needs for direct support and provide coaching, mentorship, and training to assure necessary skills are available. Provide direction to Reliability engineers for project support and higher-level reliability work in support of the overall refinery goals
Provide leadership to effectively manage the Mechanical Engineering Team, maximize team effectiveness, and deliver high performance
Ensure talent management and workforce planning activities are aligned with current strategies
Recruit, coach, develop and train staff, recognizing their expertise and contribution to the work of the Business Unit
Oversee the development and implementation of training and career development programs to ensure that they align with operational requirements and Cenovus's strategic objectives
Provide ongoing feedback on performance informally through one on one mentoring and formally through reviews. This input will be for both direct and indirect reports
Develops and manages team budget
Support Production Centric model by ensuring adequate engineering support to meet Asset Teams Safety, Availability, Production and Financial goals for both short and long term time frames, including: Managing Engineering backlog, support asset and spare part strategies, support asset team budget development, provide engineering support for asset area NCE outages
Provide engineering support to Refinery Integrity Group for fixed equipment calculations, RBI reviews and Fitness For Service reviews
Oversight of Refinery Specifications to maintain state-of-the-art design and construction requirements for fixed equipment
Liaise with other Cenovus facilities to share best practices and jointly develop technical solutions to common problems, ensuring outcomes meet current and future business needs
Maintain an efficient and safe work environment that provides leadership that fosters and promotes employees' participation
Responsible for following all safety policies and guidelines as established by the Refinery
Participate in HAZOPS, MOC's and Incident Investigations
Advises leadership on technical, capability and strategic matters, leading to wise business decisions. Steers the development of solutions and new opportunities that make a significant contribution to Cenovus
Drive the organization to reliability-centered operation by championing, developing and supporting best in class strategies
Assist the reliability engineers to develop scope, initial budget, and ROI for reliability driven projects
Utilize reliability tools, analytics, failure evaluations, and cost analysis to improve the reliability refinery equipment
Contributes to the success of the team, leading by example in terms of learning, sharing of ideas and building capability. Coaches and mentors throughout Cenovus to build distinctive capability in our staff, ensuring a healthy talent pipeline
Operates routinely across functional and business silos, and externally via extended networks, to access and use subject matter expertise
Experience in delivering complex engineering design solutions to achieve desired performance
Applies scientific rigor to evaluations despite business pressure and constraints; prioritizes and sets clear direction, and boundaries in delivery of results
Drives cross discipline interactions; comfortable leading multidiscipline teams and providing recommendations to senior leadership
Who you are:
Education
Bachelor's degree in Engineering required. Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering preferred
Experience
Minimum 12 years' experience working in refining or relevant industry
Preferred Experience
Experience in multiple process units and a broad working knowledge of different refinery equipment
Breadth of experience including some commercial, project, turnaround or similar non-technical experience
5 years of leadership experience
We acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.
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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.
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 developing our assets in a safe, responsible 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.
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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