The Opportunity:
Make your mark while you grow your career! Canadian Natural is looking for a passionate, self-starting engineer to work for our Thermal Facilities team. You will have an opportunity to work with a dynamic group of professionals where you will be responsible for identifying, recommending, and executing facility optimization opportunities.
Your contributions will directly affect the areas’ ability to reach long-term production, environmental, and profitability goals.
- Job location: Calgary, Alberta
- Shift schedule: 5 x 2, 8-hour shifts
- Position type: One-year contract
- Safety sensitive position: Yes
- Application deadline: July 8, 2026
*Please note this is a contract position for one year, located in Calgary, Alberta and you will be contracting through your own Incorporated company or a 3rd party employment agency.
Key Accountabilities:
- Develop strong relationships with Operations and other teams within the company to increase role effectiveness
- Work in multi-discipline teams to solve operational issues and optimize facility operations
- Initiate and/or participate in engineering and economic studies for process improvement and optimization
- Manage engineering changes from conception through completion using Canadian Natural’s Management of Change (MOC) process
- Follow Canadian Natural’s Project Management Methodology (PMM) to manage capital projects from initiation through closeout
- Travel to site for day and multi-day visits as required
- Follow applicable codes, guidelines, directives and regulations and work with regulatory agencies (AER, ABSA etc.) as required to ensure facilities are in compliance
What You Bring to the Role:
- 5+ years of experience in an industrial setting with Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Chemical or Mechanical preferred)
- Professional Engineer (P. Eng.) in good standing or eligibility for registration with APEGA
- Strong communication and collaboration skills to build consensus across teams
- Accepts ownership, is accountable, and delivers on commitments
- Solid organizational and analytical skills to be able to manage several projects concurrently
- Additional positive attributes for the position:
- Field-based operational or engineering support experience including facility optimization and troubleshooting
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Engineering software applications (i.e. HYSYS)
- Experience in facilities process safety through Process Hazard Analysis methodology (i.e. HAZOP, “What if”) and Management of Change (MOC) process
Why Canadian Natural?
CANADIAN NATURAL is a senior independent crude oil and natural gas exploration, development and production company based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Our strong, diversified asset base is comprised of a balanced portfolio of light, synthetic, and heavy crude oil and natural gas. Canadian Natural operates in Canada, the United Kingdom and Offshore Africa.
At Canadian Natural, we strive to live through our mission statement: "To develop people to work together to create value for the Company's shareholders by doing it right with fun and integrity." We are committed to a long-term presence in the communities where we operate. Our activities create value by providing employment, business development opportunities, revenues to governments that contribute to spending on goods and services, and essential resources for public services, including health, safety, education and training.
Over the last 30 years, we have grown from a Company with nine employees to over 10,000 employees. We have increased our production from approximately 400 BOE/d in 1989 to more than one million BOE/d today.
Safety is a core value at Canadian Natural. We conduct all of our operations in a way that identifies, minimizes and mitigates harm to the health and safety of employees, contractors, the public and the environment.
Canadian Natural Resources Limited - CNRL - is a publicly traded company on the TSX and NYSE as CNQ
Application deadline is July 8, 2026. Apply now!
Job Type: Full-time
Work Location: In person
