Shell Looking for Operations Support Engineer – Junior at Canada Full Time

Alberta, Canada

Job Family Group:

Process Engineering

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

August 17, 2022

Business unit:

Downstream

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

The Junior Operations Support Engineer provides process engineering support to the 24×7 production organization to ensure excellence in Process Safety, Reliability, Margin Optimization, Energy Optimization, and Cost Management. This position provides technical and professional development opportunities to young engineers while supporting senior engineers the Atmospheric and Vacuum units, the Water Block and the Sulphur Recovery Complex.

The role works closely with the Production Team to provide technical assurance to unit operations and ensure production plan delivery is achieved. In addition, this team member plays a key role in Continuous Improvement, Project Development, and Turnaround Planning and Execution activities.

Primary Accountabilities:

• Perform proactive technical monitoring of the designated process unit against the safe operating envelope and license to operate limits for the process unit and document the performance through defined monthly and quarterly KPI reports

• Provide technical leadership to turnaround and major maintenance activities including scope collection, scope review, scope challenge, shut down procedures and start-up procedures

• Work with the designated Technical Senior Engineer and Global Support teams to implement and utilize the current adopted monitoring standard for the site (i.e. Proactive Technical Monitoring

• Understand unit and equipment performance, identify threats, troubleshoot performance and reliability gaps, and identify opportunities for improvement

• Provide technical expertise and guidance to ensure designated process units are operated in a safe, environmentally sound and reliable manner in accordance with the license to operate and the defined safe operating envelope

• Provide technical expertise and optimization recommendations to support delivery of the business plan, including feed and product quality specifications and energy/cost efficiency

• Provide monthly, quarterly and annual input for production accounting and regulatory reporting (i.e. Solomon, yield reporting, flaring, and chemical costs)

• Identify and communicate to the technical, production and maintenance communities any threats to process safety and license to operate limits as well as threats to meeting the current production plan, annual business plan, turnaround cycle, equipment plans or maintenance plans

• Leads unit alarm reviews and support alarm management activities

• Utilize fact-based root cause analysis (e.g. RCA, KT, Causal) to investigate, define and troubleshoot threats

• Provide process engineering support off hours as needed for operating problems and seek process engineering support from others where appropriate

• Follow up on Hazard and Effect Management Process reviews and manage investigative actions

• Coordinate the efforts of other technical disciplines and enlist specialist support to resolve threats or to support planned shutdowns, start-ups, turn around activities or other significant events

• Document threats and support reliability with driving accountability, threat resolution and optimization to ensure continuity and prevent re-occurrence of the same issues

• Lead, review and approve Management of Change activities for all plant changes for designated unit(s) and act as a unit expert/idea approver and a process engineer/discipline reviewer

• Generate Investment Proposals for unit outage, major maintenance, and turnaround related activities (i.e., catalyst replacement) and support projects from front end definition through to execution

Skills & Requirements:

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

• Chemical Engineer (Professional Engineer) with APEGA designation or ability to achieve

• Between three to five years relevant experience in refining/petrochemical industry is ideal; technical experience in either distillation, water treatment or sulphur recovery technologies preferred

• Knowledge and application of safety methodology and reviews (Process Hazards Analysis and/or Layers of Protection Analysis), including safeguarding

• Experience with plant changes and Management of Change process

• Must be proficient in the use of Excel spreadsheets, computer, and simulation models

• This role will require some off-hours support during plant upsets and emergencies

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