Worker Type: Employee
Group: Upstream Thermal, Major Projects & Offshore
Job Post End Date: 01/30/2025
About this opportunity:
Reporting to the Senior Manager, HR Strategic Partnerships, your main responsibility will be to provide strategic HR support to our Atlantic Region organization.
The role will work closely with the Specialist of HR Strategic Partner & Labour Relations in the Atlantic region, our HR Centers of Excellence (COEs) and the People Services Team to deliver programs and services to the business in alignment with the business and people strategy and plans.
The successful candidate will have strong critical thinking, client management skills and the ability to build and maintain a professional network within and outside of the HR department.
This is a full-time permanent opportunity located in our downtown St. John’s office.

What you’ll do:

• Support HRBP Specialist in the delivery of HR services to leaders within the Atlantic Region operations, helping with planning the people aspects of business strategy, such as organizational capacity, capability, employee experience, and risk
• Support organizational change initiatives by assisting with adjustments to processes, teams, and structures, ensuring alignment with people goals and strategic objectives
• Provide input into business and people strategies, while observing HR data trends to identify potential impacts on strategy execution
• Track business performance, diagnose organizational challenges with leadership, and implement Cenovus People Plan to drive effectiveness and align with performance goals
• Support HR projects and initiatives by addressing gaps in organizational capacity, capability and employee experience, collaborating with COEs for the seamless execution
• Collaborate with HR and Workforce Planning teams to ensure accuracy, budget management and timely approvals for the workforce plan
• Collect feedback from clients regularly to ensure HR services, projects, and support align with the business area’s needs and goals
• Assist with organizational design, workforce planning, talent development and retention strategies, while supporting key HR programs like leadership development, performance management and compensation processes
• Support employee development through talent reviews, succession planning, and internal mobility movements, while collaborating with People Service Centre to ensure consistent delivery of HR services like recruitment and employee changes
• Support the Regional HR Advisory team with Atlantic Offshore Medical Services, Offshore Terms & Conditions and provide backup coverage for vacation leave, while serving as a member of the Regional Response Medical Team
• Provide advice and consultation to management and employees on performance and conduct
• Report and address employee concerns in accordance with Company policies
• Represent the business area’s needs in HR program development, offering input to COEs for fit-for-purpose programs and continuous improvement

Who you are:

Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum qualifications:

• Legally authorized to work in Canada
• Post-secondary degree in a related subject area
• Minimum 5+ years HR experience in a corporate environment
• HR Business Partner role experience considered a strong asset
• CHRP designation or equivalent is an asset
• Experience in employee relations, conflict management and organizational navigation
• Technical HR experience in performance management, learning and development, succession planning, leadership development, compensation and rewards, diversity and inclusion and organizational team effectiveness and development

We acknowledge the value of transferrable 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 January 29, 2025.
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, with the focus on identifying opportunities for development and career advancement within the organization.
Consistent with the Accords Act, residents of Newfoundland and Labrador specifically and Canada generally, who are qualified, will be given first consideration for training and employment.
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 developing our assets in a safe, responsible 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.
Cenovus is the operator and majority owner of the White Rose field and extensions, located approximately 350 km offshore Newfoundland and Labrador. West White Rose is a concrete based drilling platform, which will access resources in the western part of the existing White Rose field and use the SeaRose floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for processing within our Atlantic Region Operations.
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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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Internal Career Sit

• Support HRBP Specialist in the delivery of HR services to leaders within the Atlantic Region operations, helping with planning the people aspects of business strategy, such as organizational capacity, capability, employee experience, and risk
• Support organizational change initiatives by assisting with adjustments to processes, teams, and structures, ensuring alignment with people goals and strategic objectives
• Provide input into business and people strategies, while observing HR data trends to identify potential impacts on strategy execution
• Track business performance, diagnose organizational challenges with leadership, and implement Cenovus People Plan to drive effectiveness and align with performance goals
• Support HR projects and initiatives by addressing gaps in organizational capacity, capability and employee experience, collaborating with COEs for the seamless execution
• Collaborate with HR and Workforce Planning teams to ensure accuracy, budget management and timely approvals for the workforce plan
• Collect feedback from clients regularly to ensure HR services, projects, and support align with the business area’s needs and goals
• Assist with organizational design, workforce planning, talent development and retention strategies, while supporting key HR programs like leadership development, performance management and compensation processes
• Support employee development through talent reviews, succession planning, and internal mobility movements, while collaborating with People Service Centre to ensure consistent delivery of HR services like recruitment and employee changes
• Support the Regional HR Advisory team with Atlantic Offshore Medical Services, Offshore Terms & Conditions and provide backup coverage for vacation leave, while serving as a member of the Regional Response Medical Team
• Provide advice and consultation to management and employees on performance and conduct
• Report and address employee concerns in accordance with Company policies
• Represent the business area’s needs in HR program development, offering input to COEs for fit-for-purpose programs and continuous improvemen