Senior Subsea Hardware Engineer

Worker Type: Employee

Job Post End Date: 09/18/2026

About this opportunity:

The Senior Subsea Hardware Engineer provides technical stewardship, integrity management, and system coordination for subsea production infrastructure to ensure safe, reliable, and efficient operations. The role is responsible for monitoring equipment performance, leading anomaly investigations, managing technical risks, identifying and implementing innovative subsea repair and intervention solutions, and advancing digitalization initiatives. Working closely with Operations, Projects, Integrity, and external partners, the position delivers engineering studies, risk mitigation plans, and system improvement initiatives that support asset reliability, production performance, and long-term subsea asset integrity. The successful candidate is a proactive and collaborative engineer with strong technical expertise in subsea systems, asset integrity, and hardware reliability. They are capable of solving complex technical challenges, making risk-informed decisions, and identifying innovative solutions to extend asset life and improve operational performance. Strong communication, stakeholder engagement, and the ability to influence multidisciplinary teams are essential, along with a commitment to continuous improvement, safety, and operational excellence.

This position is a full-time, permanent position, located at our St. John’s office with occasional travel offshore.

What you’ll do:

• Provide technical stewardship, integrity management, and system coordination for assigned subsea production infrastructure, ensuring safe, reliable, and efficient operation throughout the asset lifecycle.

• Monitor subsea equipment performance, investigate anomalies and failures, conduct engineering assessments and risk analyses, and develop mitigation plans to address integrity, reliability, and production-related challenges.

• Lead and execute engineering studies, technical evaluations, and performance assessments to optimize subsea system functionality, improve operational reliability, enhance production, and support long-term asset management objectives.

• Develop, evaluate, and implement subsea inspection, intervention, repair, modification, and life-extension strategies that maintain asset integrity, reduce operational risk, and maximize asset value.

• Support and advance subsea digitalization initiatives, including implementation of digital monitoring tools and digital twin technologies to enhance system surveillance, predictive decision-making, performance optimization, and integrity management.

• Manage subsea anomalies, risk registers, corrective actions, and integrity-related documentation, ensuring timely investigation, reporting, tracking, resolution, and closure of identified issues.

• Provide technical leadership and engineering support for project development, design reviews, modifications, commissioning, startup, operational readiness, and ongoing integrity management activities associated with subsea infrastructure.

• Coordinate inspection programs, repair campaigns, intervention activities, and engineering improvement initiatives, ensuring compliance with technical standards, regulatory requirements, and company objectives.

• Collaborate with operations, projects, integrity teams, contractors, vendors, and external engineering partners to deliver subsea engineering solutions, execute risk reduction initiatives, and achieve production and reliability targets.

• Prepare and deliver technical recommendations, investigation reports, risk assessments, business cases, and engineering documentation to support operational decisions, asset optimization opportunities, and production enhancement initiatives.

• Serve as the technical focal point for assigned subsea systems, providing expertise and guidance to stakeholders while ensuring effective execution of engineering deliverables, integrity programs, and reliability improvement efforts.

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum qualifications:

• Legally authorized to work in Canada

• 8+ years of engineering experience with 5+ years of offshore oil and gas experience in Subsea Engineering and Operations preferred

• Bachelor of Engineering degree

• A member in good standing or eligible for registration with Professional Engineers and Geoscientist Newfoundland & Laboratory (PEGNL)

• Experience in operational engineering support for oil and gas subsea systems

• Experience in engineering design, fabrication, and testing for oil and gas equipment

• Knowledge of industry standards for offshore oil and gas equipment

• Experience with offshore subsea installation scopes

• Contract and facilities management experience

• Experience with subsea control systems

We acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.

This is a safety sensitive position and will be subject to offshore pre-placement Fitness for Work assessments, which includes drug and alcohol screening, a CAPP medical and BST/HUEBA testing.

You must be able to travel via helicopter and boat. This position requires the successful candidate travel offshore, there you will be required to obtain and maintain medical clearance and obtain all required training necessary for offshore travel.

This is a safety sensitive position and will be subject to pre-placement Fitness for Work assessments, which includes drug and alcohol screening, a medical and driver’s abstract review.

Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT on September 17, 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.  

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 [email protected].

Consistent with the Accords Act, residents of Newfoundland and Labrador specifically and Canada generally, who are qualified, will be given first consideration for training and employment.

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. 

We are the operator and majority owner of the West White Rose field and extensions, located approximately 350 kilometres offshore Newfoundland and Labrador. West White Rose is a concrete based drilling platform, which will access resources in the western part of the existing White Rose field and use the SeaRose floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for processing within our Atlantic Region Operations.

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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.

If you are a CURRENT EMPLOYEE, please apply by going to our Internal Career Site.