Senior Refinery Scheduler

Information & Technology Management; Sarnia; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy company is seeking a Senior Refinery Scheduler to optimize production schedules and oversee distillate blending at their Sarnia Refinery. The ideal candidate will ensure product availability while managing refinery processes and logistics. This role requires a Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Technology and at least 5 years of relevant experience. Join a dynamic team committed to operational excellence in a fast-paced environment, where you can advance your career and contribute to diverse projects.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Competitive starting salary

Paid parental leave

Access to training and development programs

Qualifications

• At least 5 years relevant experience in refinery scheduling.
• In-depth understanding of refinery economics and unit operations.
• Must be willing to be on call 24/7.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute schedules aligned with the Monthly Operating Plan.
• Manage the Orion scheduling tool and optimize its functionality.
• Coordinate with multiple teams to ensure refinery schedule alignment.

Skills

Understanding of refinery processes

Supply chain logistics

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Technology

Tools

Orion scheduling tool

Job description

Reference ID R180052 Updated 06/02/2025

Production and Manufacturing Downstream

Canada

Sarnia

N/A

What’s The Role

Shell Sarnia Refinery is seeking a Senior Refinery Scheduler (also known internally as Refinery Scheduler) to play a key role in optimizing and maximizing the value of the refinery’s product lines and feedstock channels, including gasoline, distillates, black oil, chemicals, and crude.

This position is responsible for developing and executing schedules aligned with the optimized Monthly Operating Plan, while managing inventories within agreed targets. The role also includes overseeing all aspects of distillate blending to minimize product quality giveaway and identifying opportunities to enhance production economics. Additionally, the Refinery Scheduler will support or lead the consolidation and reporting of production volumes and inventory data for crude, feedstocks, and finished products, including month-end reporting through GSAP and SHARE systems.

Accountabilities

• Convert the Monthly Operating Plan into optimized product schedules that meet Trading and Supply demands, blending quality requirements, pipeline schedules, and inventory requirements while minimizing quality giveaway, stock outs, and demurrage costs
• Manage the Orion scheduling tool, including its usage, updates, and collaboration with the Margin Optimization Advisor to enhance its functionality
• Responsible to communicate the Refinery Schedule to the Refinery, Trading & Supply and/or Chemicals to ensure alignment
• Ensure product availability in the necessary quantities and qualities to meet commitments, while maintaining products and feedstocks within agreed stock levels and taking proactive actions to mitigate any unexpected changes to the plan
• Ensure that the day-to-day orders and instructions to Production are prepared accurately, on time and consistent with the agreed plan. Refinery scheduler works closely with the Business’ economics group to understand margin leakage and to communicate this to the production team for effective resolution
• Perform the daily task of quantifying and analyzing discrepancies between the plan, schedules and actual performance
• Analyze and communicate results to the responsible parties to take necessary corrective actions and escalates issues to others when need be
• Coordinate and implement corrective actions to mitigate impact of unplanned disruptions
• Lead or support the Flash process for calculating and consolidating production and inventory data for crude, feedstocks and/or finished products volume reporting
• Coordinate the Integrated Activity Plan for the refinery by leading a multi-disciplinary team to identify upcoming outages, maintenance, and other activities that could affect planned activities in the 90day+ horizon
• Lead the team as the refinery scheduler, ensuring that this plan is integrated into the Business planning or MOP activities
• Support the MVA (margin variance analysis) process by recording and reporting all deviations from the plan including impact on an ongoing basis and reporting regularly
• Support the MOP (Monthly Operating Plan) process by proactively communicating operational and logistical changes or issues that may impact Production or Supply. Also ensure the MOP reflects any updated constraints as outlined in the Integrated Activity Plan process
• Support the Finance team on mass balancing closure
• Stay focused in a fast-paced dynamic environment
• Go out on the site and communicate with field personnel
• Act as an interface between the E&S team, refinery operations, and Trading & Supply teams to communicate refinery schedule and steers
  
  

What You Bring

• Must have legal authorization to work in Canada on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineer or Technologist is preferred
• At least 5 years relevant experience
• In-depth understanding of refinery processes, unit operations, yields, and supply chain logistics
• Good understanding of refinery economics
• Experience in using Linear Modelling and/or ASPIN unified scheduling is a plus
• Must be willing to be on call 24/7
  
  

What We Offer

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people in an innovative work environment. You’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills you need to grow in an environment where we value honesty, integrity, and respect for one another. You’ll be able to balance your priorities as you become the best version of yourself.

• Progress as a person as we work on innovative projects 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 unique expertise
• 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 annual performance related salary increase; our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world
• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents
• Join an organization working to 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'd like 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 how we're working 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 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