Ontario, Canada
Job Family Group:
Maintenance, Reliability and Turnarounds
Worker Type:
Regular
Posting Start Date:
October 16, 2026
Business Unit:
Downstream and Renewables
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

What we offer

The base salary range for this position is $110,000 - $160,000 per year. Individual pay will be based onvarious factors, such as relevant work experience, education, certifications, skill level, seniority, and internal equity.

You bring your skills and experience toShell,and in return you work with talented, committed people in an cutting-edge work environment.You’llhave the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another.You’llbe 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 uniqueexpertise
- - 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

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