Ontario, Canada

Job Family Group: Maintenance, Reliability and Turnarounds

Worker Type: Regular

Posting Start Date: July 29, 2026

Business Unit

Experience Level: Experienced Professionals

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

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 workplace where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You'll have to balance your priorities as you b

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.

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