Alberta, Canada
Job Family Group:
Discipline Engineering
Worker Type:
Regular
Posting Start Date:
October 13, 2026
Business Unit:
Downstream and Renewables
Experience Level:
Experienced Professionals
Job Description:
What’s the role
Leadership Accountability, Performance Ownership and technical Authority
The PET Manager is a results-driven leader with strong technical authority who establishes clear performance ownership, expectations and outcomes across Projects, Engineering and Technology (Process Engineering and Process Control).
This leader translates asset strategies, reliability insights and engineering data into priorities, actions and measurable results, reinforcing that results count not effort.
They actively eliminate decision paralysis through clear prioritization (stop, start, do less) and drive pace, urgency and accountability for delivery.
The role requires deep credibility in Pressure Equipment Integrity (PEI), spanning both Static Mechanical and Rotating Mechanical disciplines, enabling healthy challenge, proactive risk identification and technical assurance.
This leader ensures affordable, fast-paced solutions are pursued where appropriate, while maintaining rigor and discipline in longer-term engineering strategies and reliability improvements.
Risk-Based Engineering Leadership and Capability Building
The leader demonstrates string leadership presence, technical judgement and self-reflection, challenging defensiveness, optimism bias and undue risk avoidance.
They establish a balanced risk appetite for a manufacturing environment-moving the organization away from zero risk tolerance toward risk-based decision-making that protects the asset while enabling the value creation.
This leader brings the technical capability to guide the engineering team to define problems, proactively mitigate risk, develop short-term controls, and drive robust longer-term engineering solutions.
They actively close critical skills gaps across all disciplines and restore disciplined learning loops. Operating beyond functional silos, they engage Asset Partners, Joint venture stakeholders, senior level expectations with confidence – building a culture where technical excellence, accountability, pace and reliable performance are sustainably delivered.
What you’ll be doing
Individual Accountabilities
Demonstrate personal commitment and leadership to deliver a culture where no one gets hurt and process safety outcomes are paramount
Accountable for building sustainable improvements and performance delivery in HSSE, Reliability, Cost, Margin, Energy, Quality
Manages Scotford Site Grad FTE budgeting & intake, development and rotation program for all disciplines.
Ensure engineering activities adhere to site and governmental requirements/regulations including Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) Permit to Practice and ABSA (Alberta Boiler Safety Authority (ABSA).
Holder of the Shell’s APEGA Permit to Practice (P.Eng. with APEGA in good standing)
Assure engineering employees progress their professional skills to meet the needs of the business using the Shell Graduate Program (SGP), Shell Advanced Technical Program (SATP) and Technical Competence Management Solution (CMS), Shell Project Academy (SPA).
Champion leveraging and optimizing TAO capabilities in support of developing an effective technical support model for Scotford
Manage development and implementation of Pressure Equipment Integrity, Machinery, Electrical and PACO equipment strategies, programs and tactics to drive continuous improvement in operational performance.
Lead and develop staff to be a High Reliability Organization providing outstanding technical support & assurance work.
Own and drive the overall Asset Integrity Process Safety Management strategy for the site.
Maturation and capital stewardship of projects that are aligned with ESAMP and (Asset Reference Plans) ARPs
Accountable for effective engineering support and interfaces to projects and asset teams for longer term priorities
E2E accountability for capital project delivery with a right project/right scope mindset
Manage the SEAM service delivery for Project Delivery and Engineering Disciplines including funding, priorities, work scope.
Manage Site Process Ownership for Manage Projects, WRFM, MAC, MTO, MOC, PCD, MAC, HEMP, GHG, RCM, PHEA, MIDS, and SIS work Processes including assurance (LOD1s)
Site TA1 responsibilities within Shell’s work processes.
Scotford representative on key Shell networks.
Drive work process improvement globally via participation on select Global Process Councils.
Active member of the site emergency response team, leads the site duty roster as EOC Manager
Key Shared Accountabilities
Ensure implementation of key standard work processes (Manage Projects, MEC, MTO, MOC, HEMP, PCD, GHG, WRFM), PHEA (SPOs, SPFs)
Review, Challenge, support the MOC and Project work, being hand over to the team managing within operating and capital cost constraints.
Manage / Collaborate on the capital budget for the assets. Project delivery to start-up.
Assure and sponsor adequate investigation, definition of root causes, lessons learned and improvement implementation. Ensures learnings are built back into our processes.
TA scope development /assurance
Project execution and deep collaboration on delivery with Maintenance, Turnaround and Construction manager
Growth project Delivery with sound opportunity evaluation.
What you bring
Essential Leadership Behaviors
Anchored in our operating model, leaders will drive culture of accountability for delivery of business outcomes: ‘focus and finish’ (not process outcomes, not effort). To enable this culture of accountability, leaders will be able to develop and sustain high levels of two-way trust relationships, delivering & taking on feedback, with consistent pos/neg feedback loops and consequence management.
Leads with courage and conviction within the values of and delivery of sponsored work processes Goal Zero, Respectful Workplace, Code of Conduct. Constantly test, learn and lead their teams to navigate the boundaries of these values.
Strong learner mindset that brings in internal and external perspectives to drive CI within departmental WoW
Parameters for Success
Key Metrics/Financial Targets
Dept budget delivery and leadership of discipline engineer FTE's
Project Capex Portfolio delivery
Delivery on threat reductions and opportunity development (MTO) Project delivery
Project Cost delivery
More financial data available but confidential for now
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
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.
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