Senior Geoscience Technologist

Worker Type: EmployeeJob Post End Date: 11/16/2026

About this opportunity:

Cenovus is seeking a Senior Geoscience Technologist to join our Thermal Geoscience Development team. Reporting to the Manager, Foster Creek Geoscience Development, this role supports sustaining development and commercial SAGD drilling activities by ensuring accurate, reliable and well-managed geoscience data.

Working closely with geologists, geophysicists, geomodellers and other multidisciplinary partners, you will manage subsurface data, maintain geoscience databases, and support technical applications and workflows that enable development decisions.

What you’ll do:

• Support the development, maintenance, testing and troubleshooting of internal geo-analytical tools and platforms.
• Collaborate with geologists, geophysicists and geomodellers to support geoscience development objectives and prioritize workflows.
• Manage geoscience data across various software applications, including data curation, loading, quality control and transfer between programs.
• Verify and improve geoscience data workflows while ensuring Cenovus data governance standards are followed.
• Work with service providers to ensure incoming datasets align with Cenovus data standards.
• Prepare maps and reports related to reservoir quality, data coverage and volumetrics.
• Condition and prepare data for analytical use.
• Develop and maintain geoscience databases, including well, LAS and core data.

Who you are:

• Legally eligible to work in Canada.
• 8+ years of experience as a Geoscience Technician/Technologist or in a related geoscience role within the oil and gas industry.
• ASET certification, technical school diploma or equivalent.
• Experience working with subsurface geoscience data, including wells, tops, core, LAS and SEGY data.
• Strong working knowledge of oil and gas software and an aptitude for continuous learning.
• Experience with Petrel, Geographix, ArcGIS, Execute, Seisware and/or Power BI is considered an asset.
• Basic knowledge of Python, SQL or other programming languages is considered an asset.

The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT November 15, 2026.

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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 $10,000 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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