Senior Crude & Diluent Commercial Scheduler
Cenovus Energy — CA-AB-Calgary
Posted 2026-11-03
Worker Type: Employee
Job Post End Date: 11/11/2026
About this opportunity:
The Crude Oil & Diluent Senior Scheduler is a front-line commercial operations role responsible for the safe, compliant, and value-optimized movement of crude oil and diluent across Cenovus’s integrated North American pipeline, terminal, and trading hub network. The role manages the full scheduling lifecycle, including forecasting, nominations, physical movements, inventory management, ETRM entry and actualization, and settlement support. Working closely with trading, leadership, and internal and external stakeholders, the Senior Scheduler provides timely position and operational information, resolves logistics issues, and identifies opportunities to optimize transportation, inventory, working capital, and commercial value. Success requires strong commercial judgment, crude logistics expertise, accuracy, relationship management, continuous improvement, and the ability to manage time-sensitive priorities, including evening and weekend operational support.
What you’ll do:
- Manage the end-to-end crude oil and diluent scheduling lifecycle, including forecasting, nominations, physical movements, inventory actualization, reconciliation, and settlement support.
- Ensure safe, compliant, reliable, and ratable product movements while optimizing transportation, inventory, working capital, and commercial value across the North American logistics network.
- Provide accurate and timely position, inventory, and operational information to trading, leadership, risk, finance, and other stakeholders to support commercial and nomination strategies.
- Coordinate with pipelines, terminals, assets, inspectors, customers, and external partners to manage product movements, quality, testing, customs requirements, and operational issues.
- Maintain accurate ETRM and scheduling records, including tickets, gains and losses, freight and delivery costs, fuel surcharges, and supporting data, while producing required reports, KPIs, and dashboards.
- Apply sound commercial judgment within established delegations, agreements, policies, and procedures, escalating material risks and resolving operational issues as required.
- Build strong cross-functional relationships across trading, logistics, manufacturing, downstream, finance, legal, risk, regulatory, product quality, business development, and network optimization.
- Provide cross-team and on-call operational support, including evening and weekend coverage, to manage impacts involving transportation and storage assets.
Who you are:
Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum qualifications:
- Legally authorized to work in Canada.
- Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum 8 years of direct commodity logistics experience in Canada and/or the United States, with strong knowledge of crude oil and diluent pipelines, terminals, markets, and inventory management.
- Strong understanding of energy trading and risk management processes, including front-, middle- and back-office functions within an exposure- and P&L-driven environment.
- Experience managing and optimizing transportation and logistics costs, including pipeline freight and terminal agreements, with the ability to identify strategies that reduce risk and maximize commercial value.
- Proficiency with ETRM systems, preferably Egistix, and intermediate-to-advanced Microsoft Excel, combined with strong negotiation, conflict-resolution, stakeholder-management, and relationship-building skills.
- Ability to work accurately and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment, manage changing priorities and time-sensitive deadlines, support evening and weekend operational requirements, and be legally entitled to work in Canada.
We acknowledge the value of transferable 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 10th, 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.
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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.
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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.
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