Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Onsite
About this opportunity:
The Decision Analysis Engineer will support Cenovus’s Conventional Gas Asset Development team by driving investment and portfolio decisions through advanced economic modeling, scenario analysis, and portfolio optimization. This position is responsible for developing and maintaining economic models, ensuring data integrity and consistency, and delivering analyses that inform asset-level, portfolio, and strategic investment decisions.
Working closely with Development Engineers and Decision Analysis specialists, the Decision Analysis Engineer will support planning, peer review, and transaction evaluations while providing clear, credible economic insights. Success in this role requires strong analytical and economic evaluation skills, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to translate technical and financial data into actionable recommendations that enhance decision quality and maximize asset value.
What you’ll do:
Deliver sensitivity analyses to support in-year scenario planning and steward ongoing reconciliation against budget and plan.
Partner with Business Opportunity Managers to develop and maintain the 2-year Conventional economic model used for planning and decision-making.
Support the Decision Analysis Specialist in standardizing economic modeling approaches, templates, and methodologies across asset-level models.
Provide independent peer technical assurance on economic outputs supporting investment gate reviews and key business decisions.
Maintain data governance and consistency standards for key inputs used in asset and portfolio-level economic models.
Support the development and maintenance of the annual Conventional Portfolio model, including scenario design, governance, and portfolio optimization analysis.
Deliver economic and scenario analysis in collaboration with Development Engineers and Business Opportunity Managers to inform strategic portfolio decisions, transactions, and value optimization.
Who you are:
Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:
Legally authorized to work in Canada
Professional Engineer registered with APEGA.
Minimum 4+ years of experience in upstream asset development, economic evaluation, decision analysis, or related technical disciplines.
Demonstrated expertise in economic modeling, sensitivity analysis, scenario planning, and portfolio evaluation.
Experience with economic governance, model standardization, and/or master data stewardship considered an asset.
Strong collaborator with the ability to work in high-performing teams while demonstrating autonomy, accountability, and data-driven influence in decision-making.
We acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.
Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT June 5, 2026.
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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Who we are:
Ranked as one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025, Cenovus is an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary. We’re committed to maximizing value by developing our assets in a safe, responsible and cost-efficient manner. We operate in Canada, the United States and the Asia Pacific region. Our operations include oil sands projects in northern Alberta, thermal and conventional crude oil and natural gas projects across Western Canada, crude oil production offshore Newfoundland and Labrador and natural gas and liquids production offshore China and Indonesia. Cenovus’s downstream operations include upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States.
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The Cenovus experience
Total rewards
We’re committed to being an employer of choice through competitive compensation and our comprehensive total rewards package, including:
Paid vacation (including a flex day program for eligible staff)
Health & dental benefits
Substantial mental health coverage
Life insurance
Disability benefits
Employee family assistance
Virtual healthcare coverage
Our development philosophy
We foster a culture of continuous learning and development to support employees as they build meaningful careers. We offer a variety of employee development initiatives, including:
Internal course offerings
Education assistance for additional development
Opportunities to work on special projects
Leadership development programs for emerging and established leaders
We actively promote internal job movement, recognizing the value of gaining new perspectives, building connections across teams, and applying expertise in new ways. As a fully integrated energy company, we believe that sharing knowledge across our business and operations creates stronger outcomes—for employees and for the company as a whole.
Our culture
Our purpose: We energize the world to make people’s lives better.
Our values:
Protect what matters
Do it right
Make it better
Do it together
Cenovus Cares: We believe in the power of purpose-driven work. Our Employee Giving and Volunteering Program, Cenovus Cares, connects our people to our purpose, inspiring action and elevating impact year-round.
Support causes you care about with volunteer opportunities in and outside of work.
Earn donation grants while volunteering (up to $1,000 per event).
Receive donation matching up to $25,000 annually.
Staff resource groups: We have various staff resource groups to help ensure our people feel a sense of belonging and can grow and do their best work. These voluntary groups are employee-led and all groups are open to all staff in all locations.
Equal opportunity employer
We believe a workplace where everyone has merit-based opportunities to grow, achieve career aspirations and feel a sense of belonging benefits our people, our company and the regions where we live and work. We embrace and encourage different perspectives and approaches, which help us make better business decisions. We believe that through this approach, we can solve challenges, seize opportunities and unlock innovative solutions.
To achieve an unbiased and respectful workplace, individuals are evaluated based on qualifications, merit and abilities, and we encourage applications from all qualified candidates. We also acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.
For more information about working at Cenovus, 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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