Instrumentation engineer

Worker Type: Employee

Job Post End Date: 10/14/2025 About this opportunity: Cenovus is seeking an Instrumentation Engineer for our Toledo Refinery. This role provides technical expertise to ensure the reliability, safety, and performance of instrumentation systems across the facility. The Instrumentation Engineer supports day-to-day operations, leads troubleshooting and root cause analysis efforts, and drives improvements through maintenance strategies and project execution. Collaboration with operations, maintenance, and project teams is essential to enhance plant performance in alignment with a production-focused model. Interested in working in Toledo? Learn more! What you'll do:

• Provide technical support to unit operations and the instrument shop, including field engagement.
• Review engineering projects and improvements to ensure compliance with refinery standards and sound engineering practices.
• Provides technical input in determining priority and scope of instrumentation equipment repairs or replacement for projects, turnaround, and maintenance activities
• Assist in HAZOPs, Management of Change (MOC), incident investigations, and job safety analyses.
• Work within a multi-discipline team to identify and manage instrumentation reliability improvement opportunities.
• Contribute to instrumentation strategies that align with a production-centric refinery model, ensuring optimal reliability, maintainability, and performance of field instruments and control systems.

Who you are:

• Legally authorized to work in the US
• 4+ years in Instrument Engineering or related experience in a chemical plant, refinery, or equivalent environment
• BS degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Chemical Engineering/Engineering Technology required.
• Experience supporting maintenance, reliability, process, or project engineering.
• Engineering skills in troubleshooting/specifying instruments associated with process equipment i.e. pumps, heat exchangers, vessels, compressors, piping, and knowledge of industry codes such as applicable ANSI/API codes, ISA standards, and the NEC
• Successful candidate must have (or be able to obtain) a TWIC card.

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 OCTOBER 13, 2025. 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. #LI-MG1 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] . Who we are: 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 downstream operations include upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States. We are currently the largest refiner in Ohio and transport products from our refineries in Lima and Toledo, Ohio and Superior, Wisconsin via pipelines, rail cars and trucks to customers throughout the United States. Other 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 Indonesi Apply here: