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SalaryWorker Type: Employee Group: Business Excellence Department Job Post End Date: 04/10/2024
About this opportunity:
The Continuous Improvement Advisor is responsible for leading and guiding Continuous Improvement best practices across Conventional Operations. This position will train and coach our employees to a new way of thinking in the methodologies of Continuous Improvement while collaborating with team members on managing improvement portfolios and building capabilities. The ideal candidate will have a proven successful history in using leadership, influence, operations experience, and communication abilities to deliver on business initiatives.
What you’ll do:
- Owning CI methodology, designing and implementing CI related competency framework.
- Using strong interpersonal skills to communicate, influence, and collaborate with people and teams in identifying, prioritizing, and implementing improvement opportunities.
- Establishing rapport with a diverse range of stakeholders; careful listening, building trust, overcoming barriers, and coaching.
- Facilitating CI training and working sessions, formally and informally, to solve problems and challenge Project Leads and Teams to determine sustainable methods to embed solutions.
- Practicing the use of CI tools such as process mapping, fishbone, root cause analysis; train, coach and enhance capability across stakeholders as required.
- Leading and delivering CI project(s) as required.
Who you are:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, business, or economics required.
- Minimum of 5+ years working in the oil and gas industry or a relevant field.
- Minimum 10+ years' experience working with and coordinating multiple partners and the ability to establish trust and rapport with people working remotely.
- Ability to have teams define root cause solutions w/sustainable designs.
- Demonstrates comfortable ability to work with range of corporate leadership levels as well as relate to front line concerns.
- Actively seeks out ways to reach alignment on common corporate and asset level needs, to help achieve business goals on operational excellence.
- Strong results-driven orientation and ability to improve processes for higher business performance.
- High attention to detail and an ability to keep information organized.
- Strong multi-tasking skills with the ability to prioritize and organize multiple concurrent assignments.
- Exceptional skills in effectively managing competing priorities.
- Excellent business writing and oral communication skills coupled with the ability to communicate across business functions in an effective and professional manner.
- Highly analytical and results driven.
The following experience/certification will be considered an asset:
- Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification.
- CI coaching experience.
- Project management certification.
- Experience leading improvement programs and delivery of business values through application of Lean Six Sigma methodology or equivalent.
- Experience in facilitating, coaching, and teaching Lean Six Sigma or core Continuous Improvement subjects in the front-line environment with technicians, supervisors, engineers as well as ability to influence/leading/handling CI discussion with management and leadership.
Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT April 9th, 2024.
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
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. Internal candidates that are currently in a lower grade will be assessed based on their sustained job performance, how they demonstrate the expected organizational competency behaviors and values and in discussions with their current leader prior to determining next steps.
Who we are:
We’re an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary with oil and natural gas production operations in Canada and the Asia Pacific region, and upgrading, refining, and marketing operations in Canada and the United States. We’re committed to maximizing value by sustainably developing our assets in a safe, innovative, and cost-efficient manner, integrating environmental, social and governance considerations into our business plans.
We've been named a Top Alberta Employer for 2024, a designation recognizing organizations leading their industries in offering exceptional places to work.
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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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