Ontario, Canada
Job Family Group:
Maintenance, Reliability and Turnarounds
Worker Type:
Regular
Posting Start Date:
September 1, 2026
Business Unit:
Experience Level:
Experienced Professionals
Job Description:
What’s the role?
The Turnaround Maintenance Scheduler is responsible for developing, maintaining, and controlling the integrated turnaround schedule to ensure all activities are logically sequenced, resource‑aligned, and executable within the approved outage window. The role provides schedule visibility, critical path control, and scenario analysis to support safe, efficient, and predictable turnaround execution.
What you’ll be doing
Schedule Development & Control
- Develop and maintain the fully logic‑linked, resource‑loaded turnaround schedule
- Integrate all approved scope, work packages, and project activities into the master schedule
- Establish schedule milestones, phase gates, and schedule freeze points
- Ensure schedule alignment with turnaround execution strategy and constraints
- Audit turnaround planners input into Primavera P6 e.g. codes, resources, wbs, cbs etc.
- Provide Primavera export data to Controls team
- Integrated, logic driven turnaround schedules
- Critical path and schedule risk analyses
- Daily, weekly, and milestone progress reports
- Schedule recovery plans and scenario analyses
Critical Path & Risk Management
- Identify and manage critical path and near‑critical path activities
- Perform schedule risk analysis, logic reviews, and sensitivity studies
- Highlight schedule threats, float erosion, and recovery opportunities
- Support contingency and mitigation planning
- Perform Schedule Mechanics Checks with SEAM
Progress Measurement & Reporting
- Establish progress measurement rules and update methodologies
- Collect, validate, and update schedule progress during execution
- Produce schedule reports, dashboards, and look‑ahead schedules
- Communicate schedule status, variances, and forecast completion
Integration & Coordination
- Coordinate with turnaround planners to ensure accurate activity logic and durations
- Align schedule with contractor plans, execution sequencing, and field realities
- Interface with cost control and readiness teams
- Support management decision‑making through schedule scenarios and options
Change & Re‑planning
- Incorporate approved scope changes into the working and baseline schedules
- Re‑sequence and recover schedules in response to emergent or discovered work
- Maintain schedule integrity and version control
Post‑Turnaround & Continuous Improvement
- Support post‑turnaround schedule analysis and lessons learned
- Capture schedule performance metrics for future estimating and planning
- Improve scheduling standards, templates, and best practices
What you bring
- The candidate must have legal authorization to work in the Canada on a full-time basis
- Bachelor’s degree or 3 or more years of relevant industry experience
- Strong expertise in turnaround and shutdown scheduling principles
- Advanced proficiency with scheduling tools (e.g., Primavera P6; MS Project secondary)
- Deep understanding of critical path method (CPM) scheduling
- Ability to challenge logic, durations, and execution sequencing
- Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to perform under high pressure and tight deadlines
After you submit your application, you will receive an email providing a link to an online assessment that is a mandatory part of the process and must be successfully completed within 3 days of receiving the initial assessment invite. The email will come from HireVue - please check your spam/junk mailbox if you do not see the email. Once completed, your application will be reviewed to determine the next steps. Thank you for your interest in Shell.
If you don’t see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed in the posting above, we still encourage you to reach out and apply. Research has shown that women & those from under-represented groups often only apply when they feel 100% qualified. We are committed to creating a more equitable, inclusive, and diverse company, and we strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientations, and life experiences to apply.
What we offer
The base salary range for this position is $110,000 - $160,000 per year. Individual pay will be based on various factors, such as relevant work experience, education, certifications, skill level, seniority, and internal equity.
You bring your skills and experience to Shell, and in return you work with talented, committed people in an innovative work environment. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.
- Progress as a person as we work on innovative projects together
- Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead
- Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices
- Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise
- Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself
- Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working
- Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance related salary increase; our pay and benefits packages are among the best in the world
- Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents
- Join an organization working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world
- We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation, and life experiences to apply
- Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams
- Gain access to a wide range of training and development programs
We'd like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies. .
Shell in Canada
Shell Canada is part of a global group of energy and petrochemicals companies with an average of 92,000 employees in more than 70 countries and has been operating in Canada since 1911.
Shell Canada is one of the few truly integrated energy companies in Canada with all of Shell’s global businesses represented, including upstream, integrated gas, downstream, and renewables and energy solutions. That means we do everything from exploration, gas production, refining and manufacturing, to providing fuels and developing energy solutions for our customers.
At a glance, our businesses and projects in Canada include:
- Joint Venture Partner (40%) with LNG Canada which will export Canadian natural gas to Asian markets
- Shale gas and liquids assets in Alberta and British Columbia
- A network of 1,400 retail stations across Canada
- The Scotford Complex in Alberta, includes an upgrader, chemicals plant and is home to the Quest carbon capture and storage facility
- The Sarnia Manufacturing Centre refinery in Ontario
- Investments in renewables and energy solutions, including EV charging, hydrogen and biofuels
- 15 Shell-owned distribution terminals, three of which have marine operations
- Shell Aviation Canada delivers across a network of 26 airport fixed-based operations and airport consortiums, from coast to coast. Shell Aviation provides 1.7 billion liters of high-quality fuel annually in Canada and offers reliable and safe into-plane delivery
- Strong Sulphur and Lubricants businesses as well as an innovative Supply and Trading business
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