Shell

Routine Maintenance Manager RCD

Scotford - Refinery Full time
Alberta, Canada


Job Family Group:

Maintenance, Reliability and Turnarounds


Worker Type:

Regular


Posting Start Date:

December 9, 2025


Business Unit:

Downstream and Renewables


Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals


Job Description:

What’s the role

Shell is seeking a Routine Maintenance Manager for its Refinery, Chemical, & Distribution (RCD) assets (also known internally as Routine Maintenance Supervisor RCD) to join its team at Scotford.

The Routine Maintenance Supervisor is a member of the RCD Asset Leadership Team and is accountable for developing and delivering the competitive routine maintenance plan for the asset. This role ensures alignment of objectives between Production and Maintenance to enable safe, effective, and efficient maintenance execution, resulting in reliable assets in accordance with Global Maintenance Execution (ME) standards.

This role manages a team of Maintenance Team Leads (MTLs) who handle day-to-day execution, while the supervisor focuses on longer-term strategic planning, alignment, and prioritization. The goal is to deliver or exceed targets related to cost, reliability, and production, in alignment with the Asset’s 90-day outlook.

 Accountabilities:

  • Demonstrate visible safety leadership; conduct permit-to-work audits; perform planned inspections

  • Ensure and enhance maintenance execution process compliance

  • Support project commissioning activities in the area and to align priorities between routine and Non-Routine Maintenance Execution (i.e. Major Maintenance, Turnarounds)

  • Define and deliver maintenance improvement initiatives

  • Coordinate with the Excellence and Assurance group to ensure adequate work packs exist for MTLs and craft personnel

  • Responsible for the Area Maintenance budget, including developing the annual budget for the assigned PU; conducting weekly and monthly reviews of spend against the budget and preparing forecasts; managing month-end accruals and producing accurate Latest Estimates (LE)

  • Develop a cost focused team; Coordinate with the Production and Engineering teams to adjust and minimize future costs, maintaining budget; Managing unexpected production incidents and minimizing Maintenance budget impact

  • Serve as the Area Maintenance interface with other departments to manage asset incidents and activities, including ensuring a functional call-out and off-shift coverage system exists to meet business requirements

  • Adjust Contract manpower requirements within own area

  • Accountable to ensure the right people are in place, possessing the right competencies at the right times to maintain the asset

  • Accountable for the performance of contractors working in the area

  • Ensure area alignment with Major Maintenance & Construction Supervisors to align on priorities and resources working within the asset

  • Perform duties as a reserve worker when required

What you bring

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

  • Must be an Engineer, Technologist, or Journeyman

  • At least 10 years of maintenance experience in upgrading, refining, or other heavy industries, along with 5 years of leadership experience managing hourly craft personnel and coordinating multi-craft maintenance or projects

  • Proficient in Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS)

  • Experience with collective bargaining agreements is considered an asset

  • Skilled in leadership, influencing, negotiating, and decision-making; able to effectively bring groups together and coordinate action plans to drive resolution

  • Ability to manage evolving priorities while meeting multiple commitments in a timely manner

  • Effective communication, presentation and motivational skills

  • Experience developing and managing budgets

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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