Refinery Products Blend Scheduler

Shell; Scotford; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Remote/mobile working

Competitive starting salary

Job summary

Shell is seeking a Refinery Products Blend Scheduler for the Scotford site in Alberta. You will lead blending and scheduling for distillates and gasoline, coordinating with trading, operations, and supply chain teams to optimize production and capture market opportunities.

Responsibilities include generating daily operating instructions, validating LP-based recipes, and providing cross-functional support. The role requires strong analytical skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Science, Engineering or Business, and/or 3+ years of relevant experience.
• Basic understanding of Refinery/Chemical economics and supply chain is expected.
• Advanced data analysis skills and proficiency with Excel are required.
• Excellent analytical, oral and written communication skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Blending diesel, jet fuel, and gasoline for the Scotford refinery.
• Coordinate with Trading & Supply schedulers across pipelines and terminals.
• Manage inventory at Scotford and SMT; inject into product pipelines to outlying terminals.
• Translate LP model outputs into detailed schedules for Operations.
• Provide off-hours support for blending and oil movement as needed.

Skills

MS Excel

Data analysis

Prioritization

Communication

Team player

Education

Undergraduate degree in Science, Engineering or Business

3+ years relevant experience

Tools

MS Excel

Job description

Alberta, Canada

Job Family Group:

Production and Manufacturing Downstream

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

October 30, 2026

Business Unit:

Trading and Supply

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

What’s the role

Shell is seeking a Refinery Products Blend Scheduler to join its team in Scotford.

Shell’s business requires the ability to quickly respond to changing market conditions and production capabilities to deliver the most value. The Refinery Products Blend Schedulers lead blending and scheduling activity for all distillate products (Diesels, Jet Fuel) and gasoline (regular and premium) for the Scotford integrated asset.

As a Refinery Products Blend Scheduler at Scotford, you are a key member of the Refinery Asset Optimization team, working closely with the Refinery Process Unit Scheduler, Refinery Economists, site Operations and Commercial Products Trading and Supply. You lead blending and scheduling activity for the integrated Scotford site, ensuring alignment with business objectives to capture market opportunities.

What you’ll be doing

• Blending products (Diesels/ Jet fuel, and/or regular/premium gasoline) for the Scotford Refinery.
• Interfacing with Calgary commercial Trading & Supply pipeline, truck, rail and marine schedulers, and other Trading & Supply personnel, to manage product supply to customers.
• This includes managing inventory at Scotford Refinery for rail loading, and at the Sherwood Marketing Terminal (SMT) which distributes a significant volume via truck sales and serves as the staging area to inject into two product pipelines to outlaying terminals.
• Tracking and optimizing product quality giveaway across the assigned product portfolio and leveraging Scotford operations personnel to ensure products meet specifications.
• Issuing daily operating instructions to hourly production workforce indicating how the various blending systems are to be operated.
• Providing off-hours support for blending and oil movement operations (tank farm operators) as needed on a rotational basis.
• Coordinating seasonal product recipes with commercial Trading & Supply schedulers to ensure successful blend-up and blend-down is achieved for products across the supply chain, while minimizing giveaway.
• Validating blend recipes produced by the linear program (LP) model and translating the monthly operating plan (MOP) into a detailed schedule to provide clear direction for Operations. Close coordination with the Refinery Process Unit Scheduler is required to ensure processing unit operations are optimized.
• Providing key inputs for internal and external financial and production benchmarking and mandated reporting including but not limited to margin variance analysis (MVA).
• Providing basic vacation coverage to the other scheduler and blender roles within the Refinery Asset Optimization team.
• Leading continuous improvement projects in scheduling and blending, including but not limited to leveraging automation and digital technologies.
• Coordinating with the other schedulers and blenders (and Economic Model Coordinators) needed improvements to the scheduling model to sustain useability of the tool and incorporate any automation and best-practices promptly.

The individual should be able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in an ever-changing and fast-paced environment. As the Refinery Asset Optimization department assists Production, extended coverage outside standard working hours may be required based on business need. Must also be an effective communicator, build strong relationships with the key process performers (Production and Technology), and be able to influence without formal authority.

What you bring

• The candidate must have legal authorization to work in Canada on a full-time basis
• Undergraduate degree in Science, Engineering or Business, and/or 3 or more years of relevant experience
• Basic understanding of Refinery/Chemical economics and supply chain
• Knowledge of production specifications and product quality reporting process an asset
• Advance skill level in MS Excel or demonstrated capability to analyze large amounts of data
• Understanding of IT technologies, Data Analysis techniques, databases, and reasonable computer programming skills is a plus
• Ability to manage priorities effectively, balance multiple objectives and cope with occasionally high levels of stress in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent analytical, oral and written communication skills
• Team player and self-motivated

If youdon’tsee 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 moreequitable, inclusive, and diversecompany,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 toShell,and in return you work with talented, committed people in an innovative work environment.You’llhave the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another.You’llbe able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

• Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition 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 uniqueexpertise
• 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 annualperformance-relatedsalary 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 anorganization workingto 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’dlike 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 howwe’reworking 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 employeesin more than 70 countries and has beenoperatingin 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 providingfuelsand 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 inAlbertaincludes an upgrader; chemicals plant and is home to the Questcarbon captureand storage facility
• The Sarnia Manufacturing Centre refinery in Ontario
• Investments inrenewablesand energy solutions, including EV charging,hydrogenand biofuels
• 12 Shell-owned distribution terminals, three of which have marine operations
• Shell Aviation Canada delivers across a network of 26airport fixed-based operations and airport consortiums, from coast to coast. Shell Aviation provides1.7 billion litersof 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