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 chance 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

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 litersof high-quality fuel annually in Canada and offers reliable and safe into-plane delivery

Strong Sulphur and Lubricants businesses as well as an creative Supply and Trading business

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