Oil Sands Inspection Services jobs

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When you join Suncor, you become part of a company that has built a solid foundation for both business and employee success. We are a place where talented people thrive. As part of our team, you play a vital role in delivering energy we all rely on, and you'll make a meaningful impact in the communities where we live and work.

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE PROVIDED!!

About the Role

We are hiring a Sitewide Lead for Oil Sands to provide integrated operational leadership across multiple areas and business units, driving safe, reliable production and maximizing asset availability. As the senior operational leader on shift, this role aligns sitewide priorities, coordinates production and fluid movements, and enables fast, effective decision-making during both routine operations and upsets.

What we offer:

We recognize your contribution and offer a range of rewards and development opportunities designed to support your success. Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Suncor and the region where you work.

• Strong compensation: we offer competitive compensation, regional-based uplifts, annual bonuses, and long-term financial rewards. We also help you save for your future by offering pension programs, and savings plans with company matching
• Benefits: utilize an employee assistance program and comprehensive company-paid health, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family to support your mental, physical, and financial well-being
• Generous time-off: enjoy generous paid vacation time and personal time-off to recharge and maintain a healthy work-life balance
• Talent development programs: Internal mobility, succession planning, and employee training and development programs are just a few ways we’re dedicated to your development

• Relocation assistance: roundtrip airfare or mileage coverage, temporary accommodations, rental search assistance, and additional resources provided pending role and location
  
  

Minimum Requirements:

• Post-secondary education in Engineering, Engineering Technology, Power Engineering, Operations Management, or a related discipline is preferred
• Minimum Eight years of operations and/or operational leadership experience, preferably in oil sands, oil and gas, or other complex industrial environments
• Demonstrated experience leading or coordinating multi-area, multi-unit, or integrated operations, with the ability to work across organizational boundaries and influence outcomes through collaborative leadership
• Strong background in safety leadership, operational excellence, production optimization, and risk management, with the ability to balance competing priorities in a dynamic operating environment
• Broad understanding of integrated Oil Sands operations, including Mining, Extraction, Tailings, Upgrading, Utilities, Logistics, and In Situ interfaces, is preferred; experience coordinating response to major production events, process upsets, equipment outages, or emergency situations is considered an asset

Don’t have all the qualifications listed? That’s ok! Apply anyway. We acknowledge the value of transferrable skills.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate operations across multiple locations, operating areas, and business units to safely execute the integrated production plan
• Optimize daily and medium-term Oil Sands production by balancing safety, reliability, asset availability, inventories, fluid movements, and other operating constraints
• Monitor production performance by identifying, quantifying, and tracking losses and opportunities, and coordinating mitigation and recovery actions
• Chair production and short-interval control meetings, communicating production status, risks, constraints, priorities, and required actions across teams
• Act as the primary operational interface with Firebag, Fort Hills, SELC
• Lead the sitewide operational response to major process upsets, utility disruptions, environmental incidents, and other integrated events, ensuring timely escalation and coordinated decision-making
• Support operational planning by providing input to recovery plans, the Major Events Calendar, and the Long-Range Plan, while helping implement sitewide operational and strategic initiatives
• Identify operational gaps, emerging risks, and cross-functional constraints, and drive standardized practices, continuous improvement, and consistent policy application across Base Plant, as per the applicable OEMS process

Location and other Key details:

• You will work out of a Suncor Base Plant Location in Fort McMurray
• If you reside outside of Fort McMurray, relocation of your primary residence to within 60 km of Fort McMurray is mandatory. Relocation support will be provided; we offer competitive housing assistance to eligible individuals
• Hours of work are 3 days, 3 nights 6 days off, 12-hour shift.
• Our roles follow internal compensation guidelines, and the pay band will generally be based years of experience and scope of work.
• This position is safety sensitive
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Think we are a fit? Apply now!

Suncor is committed to providing equal opportunities for employment and building an inclusive, results-oriented and high-performance culture where all members of our team feel safe, valued and respected.