At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead integrated planning and scheduling for a $300 million Well Delivery portfolio.
- Company: Join Cenovus, one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025!
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, health benefits, and a supportive work culture.
- Other info: Embrace continuous learning and growth opportunities in a dynamic environment.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the energy sector while developing your career.
- Qualifications: 8+ years in Oil and Gas and expertise in project planning tools like Primavera P6.
The predicted salary is between 10000 - 10000 $ per year.
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.
Senior Advisor, Program Planning & Scheduling in Calgary employer: Oil Authority
Cenovus Energy is an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture, particularly within the CTCHO Geoscience Services team in Alberta. Employees benefit from comprehensive professional development opportunities, competitive compensation, and a commitment to sustainability, making it a rewarding place for Hydrogeologists to thrive and contribute to meaningful groundwater strategies.
