Ontario, Canada
Job Family Group:
Maintenance, Reliability and Turnarounds
Worker Type:
Regular
Posting Start Date:
July 29, 2026
Business Unit:
Experience Level:
Experienced Professionals
Job Description:
What’s the role?
The Turnaround Planner is responsible for leading the development, coordination, and maintaining detailed work plans for turnaround events. The role ensures all work is properly scoped, sequenced, resourced, and scheduled to enable safe, efficient, and cost‑effective execution within the approved outage window.
What you’ll be doing
- Developing detailed, logic-driven work plans for approved turnaround scopes and associated decon and start up activities
- Defining within the work plans, job steps, durations, labor hours, craft requirements, tools, equipment, and materials to execute the scope which also provides the inputs to the cost estimating and event scheduling activities
- Coordinating and engaging with safety, engineering, operations, maintenance, inspection, and contractors in establishing the work plans
- Ensuring the final work package content for each scope item is complete and accurate to enable safe and effective execution as per the planning standard
- Supporting scope optimization work shops and participating in table top review activities
- Supporting scope development, validation, and change control processes (WLR)
- Linking work packages appropriately into the integrated turnaround schedule
- Identifying critical path activities, work conflicts, and opportunity windows
- Supporting risk reviews and readiness assessments
- Identifying material, spare part, and rental equipment requirements and initiate their procurement as per sourcing procedures
- Supporting pre-event material verifications
- Managing planning deliverables within the event established milestones
- Communicating planning progress through planning tracker and readiness reporting
- Working with both onsite and TAS planners to develop TA plans and packages
- During event execution, providing job pack clarification and/or technical support, and if required planning to emergent or discovered work
- Continuous improvement of TA event planning for future turnarounds, through data capture of execution, participation in post-turnaround reviews, lessons learned sessions. As well as maintaining historical data for future planning, estimating, and job execution
The Sarnia Manufacturing Centre consists of an 85,000 bpd Refinery and a Chemical Plant producing 100 kt/yr IPA. It comprises of six production areas across five control rooms.
- This role requires a significant amount of informal influence and stakeholder management.
- Large time commitment during planned turnarounds
- This role may be required to be a member of the site EOC roster, requiring on-call responsibilities
- On occasion this role may support other maintenance activities
What you bring
- The candidate must have legal authorization to work in the Canada on a full-time basis
- 5 or more years of related industry experience and/or Red Seal mechanical, engineering or technical certification
- Strong knowledge of maintenance and turnaround planning principles
- Ability to read and interpret P&IDs, drawings, and technical documentation
- Experience with scheduling and planning tools (e.g., Primavera P6, GSAP, Momentum)
- Strong coordination and communication skills across multiple disciplines
- Detail-oriented with strong organizational and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to work effectively under schedule pressure
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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