Shell

MTAC Central Services Manager

Scotford - Refinery Full time
Alberta, Canada


Job Family Group:

Maintenance, Reliability and Turnarounds


Worker Type:

Regular


Posting Start Date:

March 14, 2026


Business Unit:

Downstream and Renewables


Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals


Job Description:

What’s the role

Are you ready to take an active leadership role in Scotford's transformation beyond our existing ways of working and help shape our asset of the future?

If you’re open to exploring your next career move, we encourage you to consider this exceptional opportunity! We’re seeking a dynamic leader to take charge of a critical department within one of Alberta's Top 80 and Canada's Top 100 employers.

The Shell Scotford Refinery is seeking a Maintenance, Turnaround & Construction (MTAC) Manager. The Shell Scotford Complex consists of a bitumen upgrader, oil refinery, chemicals plant and the Quest Carbon Capture and Storage facility. It is one of North America’s most efficient, modern, and integrated hydrocarbon processing sites.

The MTAC Central Services Manager is responsible to manage alignment, execution, and optimization of work being done within the Central Maintenance departments.  The Central Services departments are inclusive of the Central Services team, Central Repair Facility, Tank Maintenance, and Logistics and Real Estate teams. A responsibility of the Central Services Manager is to ensure that stakeholders, Production, Engineering, Inspections and Facilities, needs are identified and met.

The MTAC Central Services Manager is responsible for providing support to maintenance execution through a centralized resource pool consisting of both Scotford staff and contracted services. The Central Services Manager also has a dotted-line accountability to the Real Estate Supervisor. In addition, this role serves as the contract owner for many of Scotford’s high‑risk and strategic contracts, including SIP (scaffolding and insulation), cranes, civil contractors, and industrial cleaning services. The position also requires oversight of all support services and specialty contractor agreements.

 Accountabilities:

  • Lead the Central Services team to deliver work scope and associated emerging work for Scotford organization safely and efficiently

  • Coordinate centralized resource pool of non-company labour and contract services into execution areas such as rope access, cranes, scaffolding, insulation, mobile equipment support, PEI inspections, HVAC

  • Balance workforce numbers to support safe and efficient work execution during routine and peak work periods, supporting Projects, Turnaround, and Major Maintenance activities

  • Oversee the on-site central services fabrication shop to deliver cost effective and exceptional quality pump repair and fabrication services to other departments

  • Responsible for site logistics and temporary infrastructure to enable field execution

  • Ensure safe/effective work execution by interfacing with work teams to reinforce safe working habits and job site hazard identification

  • Coordinate and develop of annual Central Maintenance work scope in alignment with budget

  • Accountable for yearly budget development and in-year forecasting 

  • Accountable for continuous cost, safety, quality and efficiency improvements for Central Services organization

  • Dotted line accountability for the Real Estate group, ensuring they are executing efficiently and are aligned to the site’s objectives

  • Key member of the MTAC leadership team by taking lead responsibilities for cross departmental initiatives or backfill responsibilities as required

  • Strong partnership with Contracts and Procurement to develop and administer effective contracting strategies owner for many of Scotford’s high risk and strategic contracts such as SIP (scaffolding and insulation), cranes, civil contractors, and industrial cleaning services

  • Monitor performance of key maintenance execution contracts as Contract Owner to identify and implement improvements to drive competitive performance to terms and conditions of contract

What you bring

  • Must have legal authorization to work in Canada on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a Technology Diploma is preferred

  • At least 10+ years of maintenance and/or Project field work execution leadership in a refining or petrochemical operation combined with 5+ years in a supervisory or managerial role leading a team or department

  • Experience working on brownfield projects is considered an asset

  • Knowledge and experience with Computerized Maintenance management systems (CMMS), ideally SAP

  • Deep understanding of maintenance work processes

  • Knowledge of Perform Turnarounds and Project Delivery work process is an asset

  • Knowledge of HSSE management systems

  • Knowledge of contracting and procurement processes

  • Skill coordinating multi-craft maintenance or projects

  • Broad knowledge of the various facility works processes and the business connection between them

  • Effective communication, coaching, and motivational skills

  • Demonstrated Leadership and decision-making skills, effectively able to pull groups together and coordinate action plans to drive resolution

  • Experience developing and managing both day to day and project budgets

  • Continuous improvement background (6 sigma, Lean, 5S) is an asset

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

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. You can get to know more about how we're working towards that goal, click here.

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 27 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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