PET Manager

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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