Worker Type: Employee
Job Post End Date: 11/12/2026
About this opportunity:Reporting to the Maintenance Senior Coordinator, the Maintenance Technician, Instrumentation is a hands-on position responsible for the safe and effective execution of instrumentation maintenance activities, including troubleshooting, repairing, and maintaining instrumentation equipment and systems. This role also ensures accurate equipment records and compliance with safety, environmental, regulatory, and operational integrity requirements, while upholding Cenovus's policies and values.
Work Environment:- This is a full-time employee position based in Rainbow Lake working 14 days on 14 days off days/nights shift rotation.
- The successful candidate must reside in Rainbow Lake while on shift.
- Please note, this is not a camp role and not a fly-in/fly-out position.
- While on rotation in Rainbow Lake, you will stay in company-provided housing. Please note that meals are not included and will be your responsibility.
- The successful candidate will need to commute to and from the community for each rotation or reside in Rainbow Lake.
What you'll do:- Perform corrective maintenance, including calibrating, inspecting, repairing, testing, programming, and troubleshooting instrumentation and control system components in accordance with asset design, regulatory requirements (D17), and manufacturer specifications.
- Execute scheduled predictive and preventative maintenance on instrumentation systems and equipment, and support turnaround activities as required.
- Install, test, and commission instrumentation equipment to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient operation.
- Comply with corporate and site-specific safety policies, procedures, incident management requirements, and Life Saving Rules while actively promoting safe operations.
- Follow Cenovus Safe Control of Work requirements, including work authorization, energy isolation, and confined space entry procedures.
- Maintain accurate maintenance records and use applicable Cenovus business applications, systems, and processes.
- Conduct First Line of Defense (LOD1) inspections of safety systems and processes, including Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) and safe work permits.
- Provide on-the-job mentoring, coaching, and training to new employees, and coordinate and oversee contingent workforce activities to ensure compliance with Cenovus safety standards and work requirements.
Who you are:Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:
- Legally authorized to work in Canada
- Interprovincial Red Seal Instrumentation certification and/or a provincially recognized Instrumentation Journeyperson certificate.
- Dual-ticket certification in Electrical and Instrumentation is considered an asset.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience troubleshooting and repairing instrumentation equipment in oil and gas and/or petrochemical production facilities.
We acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.
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 November 11, 2026.#LI-CA1
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