Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Strathcona Resources Ltd. is one of North America’s fastest growing pure play heavy oil producers with operations focused on thermal oil and enhanced oil recovery near the Cold Lake and Lloydminster regions of Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Strathcona is committed to doing business the right way, guided by our core values: Integrity, Energy, and Intelligence. These values define who we are as a company, how we work together, and how we make decisions: We prioritize respect, accountability, and collaboration. That means everyone can shape and strengthen our culture and drive results in meaningful ways. Our people bring energy and curiosity to solve problems and deliver results. Be part of a team where performance, collaboration, and innovation come together to drive success.
We are actively seeking an experienced Operations Specialist to join our Lloydminster Thermal Business Unit. This role supports project execution, commissioning, and the successful startup and turnover of development and MOC projects to Operations. The position involves project design changes, scope development, and ensuring Operations is aware of all changes.
Provide daily operational direction and technical leadership to CPF Operations teams to ensure safe, reliable, environmentally responsible, and efficient plant operation.
Promote and demonstrate strong safety leadership, including proactive hazard identification, risk assessments, lockout/tagout stewardship, tailgate meetings, and participation in safety meetings and loss control tours.
Ensure compliance with Strathcona Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) standards, regulatory requirements, and site-specific operating procedures, taking independent action to address and communicate substandard conditions.
Coordinate, steward, and communicate key operational performance indicators (KPIs) to optimize production, maximize CPF throughput, and control operating costs.
Ensure operating procedures are current, understood, and consistently applied across all shifts, intervening as necessary to prevent unsafe or off-spec operating conditions.
Serve as a key Operations stakeholder in Management of Change (MOC) and Capital Projects, providing operational input during design reviews, coordinating documentation review, and supporting PSSR activities.
Plan and coordinate shutdowns, commissioning, startup activities, and turnaround events (planned and unplanned), ensuring operational readiness and safe execution.
Support Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) maintenance practices, including work order quality, break-in work release, and coordination with Maintenance teams.
Mentor, coach, and provide technical guidance to Shift Engineers, Operators, contractors, and new-to-site personnel, promoting consistent and disciplined operational practices.
Support continuous improvement initiatives, lessons learned, and knowledge sharing to improve plant reliability, safety performance, and operational efficiency.
Strong technical knowledge of SAGD well pair operations, steam generation, production systems, and multi-phase pipelines.
Experience participating in or supporting Management of Change (MOC), capital projects, commissioning, and turnaround activities.
Effective communication skills with the ability to work collaboratively across Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Production, and HSE teams.
Demonstrated professionalism, sound judgment, organizational skills, and a disciplined approach to operational excellence.
Relocation & Transportation Support: If you need help moving, we offer relocation assistance to make the process easier. Depending on your role and location, we can provide company vehicles, carpooling options, or flights to ensure you can get to site with ease.
Great things aren’t done by one person, they’re done by a team.
We believe meaningful results come from people with unwavering commitment to integrity, energy, and intelligence – how we show up matters just as much as what we deliver. We value our work, our communities, and our commitments – but most of all, we value the team of people who make what we do possible.
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If you have what it takes to be a great Strathcona team member, we want to hear from you. We appreciate all interest in this opportunity but only those selected to advance through the process will be contacted.
