Worker Type: Employee
Job Post End Date: 11/06/2026
About this opportunity:We are looking for a Senior Advisor, Program Planning & Scheduling, to support the Well Delivery Program Integration Team. Reporting to the Program Planning Manager, this role will be responsible for integrated planning, scheduling, and performance analysis across a Well Delivery sustaining capital portfolio of approximately $300 million annually.
The Senior Advisor will partner with multidisciplinary teams to develop executable plans that align scope, schedule, cost, resources, risks, and business priorities, providing forward-looking analysis, scenarios, and recommendations to improve execution certainty and portfolio performance.
The Senior Advisor, Program Planning & Scheduling will also lead planning and scheduling practices, promote consistent governance, and improve processes through standardization, automation, data integration, and advanced analytics. Success requires advanced planning and scheduling expertise, business acumen, analytical skills, and the ability to influence stakeholders and communicate clear recommendations.
What you'll do:- Lead integrated project and program scheduling across project management, drilling, completions, facilities, operations, earthworks, regulatory, finance, and enabling functions, aligning plans with approved scope, execution strategies, and business objectives.
- Develop and maintain schedules that capture execution sequences, dependencies, constraints, resources, decision points, and team handoffs to support near-term execution, cost forecasting, resource planning, interface management, risk analysis, and program decisions.
- Coordinate weekly schedule updates, interim assessments, and scenario development with project teams and functional stakeholders.
- Maintain consistent project and program performance measures, reporting requirements, and analytical practices; explain schedule and performance variances, including causes, impacts, corrective actions, and required decisions; and use objective data to challenge duration assumptions and forecasts.
- Coordinate with Project Managers, execution teams, Business Opportunity Managers, and enabling functions to ensure schedules are integrated across projects and programs.
- Promote and continuously improve planning and scheduling methodologies, procedures, coding structures, templates, guidance, reporting, and quality assurance practices to strengthen integrated project and program delivery.
- Advise program leadership on planning quality, execution feasibility, and portfolio performance, and build planning capability across Well Delivery through onboarding and sharing knowledge, tools, and lessons learned.
Who you are:Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:
- Legally eligible to work in Canada
- Post-secondary Degree / Diploma / Relevant Certificate
- 8+ years of Oil and Gas experience preferably with Drilling programs
- 8+ years of Project Planning using Primavera P6
- Experience with data modeling, Power Query, Power Automate, SQL, Python, or comparable data transformation and automation tools.
- Experience using emerging digital and AI-enabled capabilities to improve planning, analysis, reporting, or decision quality.
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 November 5th, 2026.If you require accessibility assistance to complete the on-line application or otherwise apply for an open position with Cenovus, its subsidiaries and affiliates, please email [redacted].
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.
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