The average tenure of our employees is more than nine years, and our voluntary turnover rate was 5.9% in 2022.
New Graduate Program
The experience Ovintiv provides through our new graduate 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, Geosciences, Land Management and Accounting, among others. While every program differs slightly, the focus is on building a breadth of knowledge and gaining exposure through rotations or project work. One program offered each year is our New Grad 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.
New Grads Meet our Board
In early 2023, Ovintiv new graduates gathered in Denver for a significant career and culture-building opportunity to share their experiences as a group with our leadership team and Board of Directors. Our Board, who was interested in our recruiting practices and talent development, joined the event to better understand our programs and appreciate how Ovintiv is differentiating itself from industry peers. Our New Grads were able to share their experiences with the Board, who in turn provided professional feedback and career advice to the graduates. It was a significant and mutually beneficial opportunity for our new grads to engage with and receive guidance from this level of company leadership, while also imparting their own generational insights into the program, company and industry.
Partnering with CareerWise
Shale Technology Exchange
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, which 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.
Peer Networking
Executive Engagement
We are committed to ensuring employees have regular opportunities to engage informally with the executive leadership team through casual, hosted breakfasts or lunches in our corporate locations, social events after in-person town halls and registered Q&A sessions with individual executive leadership team members.
Learning Management System
We employ a learning management system, Workday, 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. To date, our employees have completed more than 10,000 courses since the program’s inception in 2019. This system supports both our EH&S training and our professional development opportunities.
Commercial Rotation Program
Citizen Innovator Program
Our Finance team is piloting an internally sponsored Citizen Innovator program which includes training, hands-on experience, and mentoring to develop skills in data and analytics, process engineering, custom app design, automation and project and change management. A capstone project encourages participants to develop tools that solve challenges within their team and provide ongoing value to the business.
IT Toolbox
Our IT team unveiled a DIY toolbox designed as a resource-rich hub that equips employees with the tools needed to translate ideas into reality and showcases digital projects that teams throughout the company have developed.
Innovation Workshops
We also introduced workshops to encourage leaders throughout the organization to develop mindsets and skill sets to support and enhance our culture of innovation.
Fitness For Work
We require employees to be in a condition to carry out their day-to-day job duties safely and effectively without putting themselves, their co-workers, the public or the environment at risk. We consider employees unfit for work if injury, illness, physical or psychological health issues, fatigue or the use of alcohol or drugs could result in the reduced ability to perform work safely or effectively.
Mental First Aid
In 2021, our Canadian operations team successfully piloted Mental First Aid, a course aimed at teaching employees and managers about common mental health conditions and reducing stigma associated with them. Since then, we have made the course available to teams across our organization.
Therapy Dogs
As part of Mental Health Month in May, we partnered with PALS in Calgary, Therapy Pet Pals of Texas, and Denver Pet Pals to bring their therapy dogs onsite to our corporate offices. Studies have shown that pets are good for your mental health and can alleviate depression, reduce anxiety, and decrease levels of the stress hormone cortisol.