CAREERS AND EMPLOYEE WELLNESS

Our success is a direct result of the talent of our team and our ability to work together to achieve Company goals. We work hard to put our best ideas into action — making energy development more advanced, efficient and safer than ever before.

Every person on our team is encouraged to share ideas and make a meaningful contribution to our Company’s success. Our workforce is the reason we have built a reputation for delivering industry-changing advancements, technologies and results. We have a history of hiring proven industry leaders and are committed to retaining our hardworking and dedicated people. We seek talent from within and outside our industry, recruiting prospective employees who will excel in our unique culture.

Compensation and Benefits

Our compensation philosophy is anchored by two key objectives: delivering market-competitive pay and benefits and providing pay-for-performance opportunities. Our compensation program is designed to attract and retain talent by rewarding both individual and Company performance. All employees can earn a discretionary bonus based on Company performance as measured by our Company scorecard. To support a workplace where contributions are recognized and rewarded fairly, we also regularly review compensation through a comprehensive Equal Pay for Equal Work analysis, using an independent external firm. By aligning career development initiatives with pay equity, we are reinforcing a workplace where performance, opportunity and reward go hand-in-hand. Any identified gaps are addressed either immediately or through our annual compensation review process.

Financial

  • Company-funded pension plan (Company contribution is 8% of base salary)
  • Investment plan (Canada) or 401(k) plan (U.S.), with a 100% Company match of employee contributions up to 5% of base salary
  • Long-term incentive program
  • Financial education tools and assistance
  • Post-retirement benefits

Health & Wellness

  • Competitive medical and dental benefits, plus additional insurance coverage
  • Annual life spending allowance which provides employees flexibility to use this benefit for items such as transportation, parking, fitness club memberships, financial consulting, etc.
  • Employee and family assistance program
  • Family leave practice that includes 16 weeks paid leave for primary caregivers and 10 business days of paid parental time off for secondary caregivers
  • Family forming benefits that include enhanced support for fertility treatment and reimbursement for adoption and/or surrogacy assistance

Additional Benefits

  • Competitive vacation policy
  • Flexible work hours that support a healthy work-life balance, including having the first and third Friday of every month off (eligibility varies on location and position)
  • Employee charitable donation match up to $25,000 and volunteer and leadership rewards program
  • Employee student scholarship program for dependent children, including new support for eligible apprenticeships

The average tenure of our employees is more than nine years, and our voluntary turnover rate (excluding retirements) was approximately 4.0% in 2024.

SPOTLIGHT

RECOGNIZING IMPORTANT NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

Starting in 2025, Ovintiv is providing employees with an additional holiday to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the U.S. and Truth and Reconciliation Day in Canada, respectively. These national holidays represent important dates that align with our culture of inclusion, and we also acknowledge that some public services, including schools, close on these days — presenting an opportunity for families to spend time together.

Empowering the Next Generation of Talent

​​Recruiting, developing and retaining our workforce is vital to our success today and in the future. We believe in providing opportunities for our employees to grow with us, including professional development and training programs.

Intern Program

Ovintiv proactively attracts, identifies and develops talented and diverse interns that create a pool of potential New Graduates. Interns are employed in office and field-based roles across a variety of disciplines such as engineering, land, geosciences, information technology and accounting. Interns are provided with the opportunity to work on meaningful projects, learn new skills, take part in operational field trips, and present their final projects to the Company.

New Graduates Program

The experience Ovintiv provides through our New Graduates Program and career development is not only meaningful to participants but adds significant value to the Company. Ovintiv’s New Graduates develop skills, knowledge, and a professional network through on-the-job technical training and social opportunities. Our program is home to graduating students in engineering, land, geosciences, information technology and accounting, among others. While every stream differs slightly, the focus is on building a breadth of knowledge and gaining exposure through rotations or project work. One program offered each year for all New Graduates is our New Graduates Boot-Camp, an immersive, multi-day experience that includes technical presentations as well as sessions with senior leaders, the executive leadership team and Board members. With regular networking opportunities throughout the year, the New Graduates are encouraged to get to know each other and build connections within the Company. 

Building Internal Connections

Our culture promotes collaboration as a way for employees to network, develop, drive innovations and improve outcomes. We encourage cross-functional sharing by providing communication tools, processes and events for connection.

Peer Networking

We provide a voluntary Random Coffee program, which randomly pairs interested employees to meet for either an in-person or virtual coffee session, during which they learn about each other’s teams, roles, operating areas and other interests.

Executive Engagement

We are committed to ensuring employees have regular opportunities to engage informally with the executive leadership team through hosting casual breakfasts or lunches in our corporate locations, social events after in-person town halls and Q&A sessions with executive leadership team members. 

Succession Planning

At Ovintiv, we believe that everyone is responsible for driving their career and we strive to create an environment where growth and development are supported. In 2024, we updated our employee succession planning process to provide employees with more transparency and ownership in their career progression. Employees can now formally communicate their career aspirations through our Workday career profile to support a development conversation between an employee and their leader, and provide leaders a better understanding of overall bench strength, development interests and the ability to match career aspirations with business needs.

Fostering Learning and Development

At Ovintiv, career development takes on a dynamic and versatile form, akin to a lattice framework rather than a traditional ladder. This approach allows our employees to advance in multiple directions—upward, laterally or diagonally—aligning with our agile corporate culture and adapting to the changing needs of our Company and industry.

Our emphasis on employee development supports our business strategies, culture and values. While technical capabilities are discipline specific, we look to support the growth of shared capabilities that span the gap between technical and leadership capabilities and apply to the whole organization. We support the development of these skills through learning in the flow of work, social learning and formal instruction. We encourage our employees to take an active role in their professional development and give them the tools they need to grow their skill set.

Learning Opportunities

Learning takes on different forms to ensure it fits employee and organizational needs. Formal instruction can include external training and conferences, or third parties brought on site to deliver specialized content.

We also employ a learning management system, to offer training content through a single, easy-to-use platform. Within this system, we host more than 130 courses with both computer-based and instructor-led options.

Shale Technology Exchange (STE)

Ovintiv’s internal collaboration forum, the Shale Technology Exchange, brings together technical staff to present, debate and share ideas and solutions that drive our operations forward. The forum includes presentations and technical talks from employees across the organization, enables staff to build relationships, share ideas and drive enhancements for both well results and costs. Keynote addresses and technical talks are also live streamed for employees unable to attend in person enabling them to participate virtually.

Commercial Rotation Program

In early 2024, our first cohort began their learning experience as part of a our new 18-24 month rotation program in commercially related roles. The program is designed to expand participants’ networks and exposure across the organization while reinforcing our culture of innovation and enhancing diversity of thought within teams.

Driving Your Career

The Driving your Career Workshops were launched in 2024 to give everyone opportunities to learn and understand Ovintiv’s approach to career development, create a personalized career plan, and prepare for development conversations. Over 500 employees attended these workshops in 2024.

Citizen Innovator Program

The Citizen Innovator program is one of several employee upskilling initiatives within our Finance team that includes curated training (in design thinking, data and analytics, custom app design, automation, and project/change management), mentoring, and hands-on experience to develop innovative solutions that automate or streamline workflows. After a second successful year, participants presented their capstone projects to senior Finance leadership at the end of 2024 and helped their peers realize the ‘art of the possible’. 

DIY Toolbox

Our IT team empowers employees to optimize and innovate at any scale. The team maintains a DIY Toolbox designed as a resource-rich hub that equips employees with the tools necessary to do it yourself and translate ideas into reality. This includes access to applications and training, approved data sets, ways to connect with innovators across the Company and a showcase of solutions that teams throughout the Company have developed.

Bot Wars

After the successful launch of the Ovintiv Bot Wars competition in 2023, our team has built upon the program’s success with two more rounds held in 2024 and more planned for 2025. Bot Wars is a gamified, team-focused program that allows employees to learn Robotic Process Automation (RPA) skills and streamline actual business processes. Inspired by popular TV competitions, Bot Wars empowers teams to build and show their Power Automate projects to a panel of judges. They are judged on categories such as Process Improvement, Problem Solving, Ovintiv Team Spirit, Cost Reduction and Future Potential.

Innovation Workshops

Innovation Workshops have been introduced to encourage leaders and employees throughout the organization to develop mindsets and skill sets to support and enhance our culture of innovation.

Employee Well-Being Program

We are committed to holistically supporting our employees’ well-being. We offer competitive medical and dental benefits, as well as wellness programs to support physical, financial and mental health.

Physical – Promoting preventive care with health providers, offering proactive health assessments, creating a physical well-being incentive program and providing an ergonomics program (assessments and guidelines for office setups)

Financial – Providing education and resources for retirement planning and a broad spectrum of other personal financial matters

Emotional – Ensuring access to quality mental and behavioral health resources and care

Social – Enhancing connections among our workforce through employee networking groups (LINK, OYL), giving managers the tools to create an inclusive workplace culture and promoting volunteer opportunities within our communities

Mental Health Conversations

At Ovintiv, we’re having conversations related to the importance of mental health awareness.

Each year we recognize Mental Health Awareness Month. Our 2024 events featured a special presentation on how Calgary’s new youth mental health center – The Summit – is closing the gaps in care to support local families, therapy dog visits in each of our corporate offices, and webinars from our Employee and Family Assistance Program providers. We also simplified our mental health resource offerings, as well as local and publicly available programs, into easy one-page guides for employees across all of our operating areas.

Employee Wellness