Alberta, Canada

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

October 29, 2026

Job Description:

At Shell, Early Career talent plays an important role in powering the future of energy. Through internships, apprenticeships, graduate programmes, and opportunities for students and early professionals, we empower individuals to learn, grow, and make meaningful contributions from day one. We support talent at different stages of their career journey through mentorship and exposure to diverse areas of our business, helping them build skills and explore future career pathways at Shell.

In our values-led culture, you’ll have the chance to power your progress while helping develop the energy solutions of today and tomorrow.

What’s the role

The Asset Inspector is responsible for pressure equipment integrity at our Scotford Upgrader. The role manages aspects of inspection, materials, welding, quality control, quality assurance, equipment design, procedure review, and creating or updating pressure equipment standards and specifications. In addition, the Asset Inspector provides technical support to production and maintenance on day‑to‑day plant issues and during plant operational and equipment problems. The Asset Inspector ensures all pressure equipment is designed, fabricated, operated, inspected, maintained, altered and repaired in a manner that provides pressure equipment integrity conforming to required regulations and standards. This team member is an advocate for Pressure Equipment Safety and strives towards ZERO LEAKS. The Asset Inspector proactively improves and executes the site pressure equipment integrity management (PEIM) system and work processes.





The Asset Inspector focuses primarily within a 90‑day outlook ensuring the PEIM program for their assigned units is executed and supports medium to long term unit issues and opportunities. A portion of an Asset Inspector’s time will be spent on the very short‑term supporting emergent unit issues that threaten the business plan.

What you’ll be doing

You will be responsible for the following:

- Daily activities of reviewing shift logs and shift plans in preparation for daily team meetings
- Plan, coordinate, and execute integrity inspections, assessments, recommendations, and monitoring requirements including maintaining unit KPIs
- Responsible for the implementation of the pressure equipment integrity management (PEIM) program for the assigned process unit
- Maintenance of the Inspection database system (IMS)
- Pressure Equipment Integrity (PEI) Focal for Maintenance Team Leaders and Asset Shift Team Leaders within their area to quickly resolve emergent threats to the business plan
- Assessment, analysis, optimization, and documentation of Inspection results
- Support Shell Risk Based Inspection (RBI) assessments
- Responsible for creation of piping and equipment repair plans and their adherence to API, ASME, and jurisdictional ABSA requirements
- Technical review and support of management of change (MOC) work, equipment inspection deferrals or extensions, and RBI assessments




- Technical support of equipment re‑rating, fitness for service evaluations and remaining life assessments
- Review and approval of construction and repair Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs)
- Responsible for the placement, monitoring, and RBI assessment of condition monitoring locations (CMLs) on equipment and piping, while optimizing to assure integrity and efficiency
- Troubleshoot failures & provide recommendations for repair / replacement based on materials failure analysis, causal analysis, and root‑cause analysis
- Perform maintenance & integrity quality assurance duties on assigned assets
- Provide direction, monitor the progression, and review reporting of non‑destructive examination (NDE) in their assigned units, ensuring the personnel safety of NDE contractors working in their respective area
- Input to annual budget process for integrity/inspection issues
- Assist and coach team members in removing and overcoming barriers they find with executing pressure equipment (PEI) integrity activities
- Support the PEI work process through all 5 stages (degradation assessments, inspection planning, perform inspection, analyze results, corrective action)
- Work collaboratively with our customers and stakeholders in Production, Maintenance, Projects, Turn Around, Engineering and Technology teams
- May be required to fill a reserve worker role

What you bring

We are keen to hear from candidates with more than 2 years of professional experience at petrochemical or other industrial sites, as well as recent graduates of Mechanical Engineering Technology, Materials Engineering Technology, or Welding Engineering Technology progr

📌 Asset Inspector – Upgrader (Alberta)
🏢 Shell
📍 Alberta