Turnaround Maintenance Planner

Job Role

The Turnaround Planner is responsible for leading the development, coordination, and maintaining detailed work plans for turnaround events. The role ensures all work is properly scoped, sequenced, resourced, and scheduled to enable safe, efficient, and cost‑effective execution within the approved outage window.

• Develop detailed, logic-driven work plans for approved turnaround scopes and associated decon and start up activities.
• Define within the work plans job steps, durations, labor hours, craft requirements, tools, equipment, and materials to execute the scope.
• Coordinate and engage with safety, engineering, operations, maintenance, inspection, and contractors in establishing the work plans.
• Ensure the final work package content for each scope item is complete and accurate to enable safe and effective execution as per the planning standard.
• Support scope optimization workshops and participate in table top review activities.
• Support scope development, validation, and change control processes (WLR).
• Link work packages appropriately into the integrated turnaround schedule.
• Identify critical path activities, work conflicts, and opportunity windows.
• Support risk reviews and readiness assessments.
• Identify material, spare part, and rental equipment requirements and initiate their procurement as per sourcing procedures.
• Support pre-event material verifications.
• Manage planning deliverables within the event established milestones.
• Communicate planning progress through planning tracker and readiness reporting.
• Work with both onsite and TAS planners to develop TA plans and packages.
• During event execution, provide job pack clarification and/or technical support, and if required plan emergent or discovered work.
• Continuously improve TA event planning for future turnarounds, through data capture of execution, participation in post-turnaround reviews, lessons learned sessions, and maintaining historical data for future planning, estimating, and job execution.

The Sarnia Manufacturing Centre consists of an 85,000 bpd Refinery and a Chemical Plant producing 100 kt/yr IPA. It comprises six production areas across five control rooms. This role requires a significant amount of informal influence and stakeholder management. Large time commitment during planned turnarounds. The role may be required to be a member of the site EOC roster, requiring on‑call responsibilities.

On occasion, this role may support other maintenance activities.

• Legal authorization to work in Canada on a full‑time basis.
• Five or more years of related industry experience and/or Red Seal mechanical, engineering or technical certification.
• Strong knowledge of maintenance and turnaround planning principles.
• Ability to read and interpret P&IDs, drawings, and technical documentation.
• Experience with scheduling and planning tools (e.g., Primavera P6, GSAP, Momentum).
• Strong coordination and communication skills across multiple disciplines.
• Detail‑oriented with strong organizational and problem‑solving abilities.
• Ability to work effectively under schedule pressure.

The base salary range for this position is $110,000 - $160,000 per year.

Individual pay will be based on various factors, such as relevant work experience, education, certifications, skill level, seniority, and internal equity.

You bring your skills and experience to Shell, and in return you work with talented, committed people in an innovative work environment.

• Opportunity to develop skills needed to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another.
• Balancing priorities as you become the best version of yourself.
• Progress as a person as we work on innovative projects together.
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