Instrumentation Maintenance Specialist

What's the role:

• Reporting to the Reliability Manager, the Instrumentation Maintenance Specialist plays a key role in maximizing the reliability of production, regulatory-based, safety instrumented systems.

• Provides day-to-day technical support to the maintenance execution process – troubleshooting, planning, coordination, and execution – for a range of instrumentation activities.

• Provides direction and support to the site instrumentation care plans and continuous improvement efforts.

• Strong understanding of the installation, commissioning, operation and maintenance of instrumentation, with a focus on effective and efficient delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Requires a high degree of flexibility while working on a wide range of instrumentation operation and maintenance issues.

• Daily repair support to maintenance including job scopes, field, and shop support.

• Works with maintenance in the field to understand potential reliability issues during repairs and recommends potential preventive and predictive measures.

• Works with production in the field to assist with operator awareness, ensuring applicable operator rounds are correct and consistent.

• Support maintenance planners, schedulers, and preventive maintenance (PM) procedures in driving the maintenance execution (ME) process.

• Reviewing equipment inventory management reports and data, providing recommendations for new and revised bills of materials (BOMs).

• Provide technical assurance for instrument repairs including overhaul and project commissioning.

• Perform quality assurance visits to shops for instrumentation repairs.

• The primary representative for instrumentation reliability issues, escalating to I&E Maintenance Engineer for further support.

• Support review and auditing instrumentation maintenance procedures, as needed.

• Support Maintenance Team Lead (MTL) with reliability-related training and coaching requirements.

• Assist in project specific training of instrumentation during project commissioning activities.

• Lead on-site instrumentation training with operation, emphasizing what is normal.

• Audit, update and report on instrumentation PM program.

• Technical and maintainability input into overall pre-commissioning, commissioning, start-up for new site projects.

• Key field technical representative in all Pitstops and Turnarounds.

• Review project packages for design, maintainability, and equipment specifications of proposed plant modifications.

• Initiate or review simple Manage of Changes (MOCs) to support safety impairment mitigations.

• Support instrumentation-related Threat Mitigation Action Plans (TMAPs) and Incident Management investigations and actions.

• As required, assigned actions from the Manage Threats and Opportunities (MTO) process.

• As required, participate in incident investigations including failure analysis and causal investigations.

• Foster the use of 5 causal reasoning questions (5CRQ) in determining the cause of instrumentation failures.

• Support, review and input into the SIS (Safety Instrumented System) and HEMP work processes.

Dimensions:

• No direct report/s or budget accountability

• Support and influence on site routine, non-routine, infrastructure, pitstop and turnaround maintenance budgets.

• Accountable for personal spending in the Reliability Department budget.

• This role may require membership in site Emergency Operation Centre (EOC), requiring on-call duties.

• Off-hours response to operational difficulties and large time commitment during planned and unplanned outages.

Skills & Knowledge:

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

• Must have an Instrumentation and Control Engineering Technology (ICET) Diploma (or equivalent/greater education).

• Knowledge of key areas of instrumentation technology, including flow, level, temperature, pressure, control valves and analyzers.

• Knowledge of safe instrumentation practices and procedures, and appropriate codes.

• Broad exposure in refinery operations and maintenance, with a minimum 10-years relevant experience in the instrumentation and control discipline. 

• Ability to self-manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.

• Must possess excellent interpersonal skills and have relevant experience in a unionized work environment. Must be cognizant of the roles that each skilled trade performs and how they correlate.

• Must have familiarity with the Projects and Management of Change work processes.  

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 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, orientations, and life experiences to apply. 

Company description 

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies with about 84,000 employees across more than 70 countries. We aim to meet the world’s growing need for more and cleaner energy solutions in ways that are economically, environmentally and socially responsible.  We have expertise in among other exploration, production, refining and marketing of oil and natural gas, and the manufacturing and marketing of oil products, chemicals, electric power, renewables and energy solutions.

As a global energy company operating in a challenging world, we set high standards of performance and ethical behaviors. We are judged by how we act and how we live up to our core values of honesty, integrity and respect for people. Our Business Principles are based on these. They promote trust, openness, teamwork and professionalism, as well as pride in what we do and how we conduct business.

Building on our core values, we aspire to sustain a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone feels respected and valued, from our employees to our customers and partners. A diverse workforce and an inclusive work environment are vital to our success, leading to greater innovation and better energy solutions.

An innovative place to work

There’s never been a more exciting time to work at Shell. Everyone here is helping solve one of the biggest challenges facing the world today: bringing the benefits of energy to everyone on the planet, whilst managing the risks of climate change.

Join us and you’ll add your talent and imagination to a business with the power to shape the future – whether by investing in renewables, exploring new ways to store energy or developing technology that helps the world to use energy more efficiently.

An inclusive place to work

To power progress together, we need to attract and develop the brightest minds and make sure every voice is heard. Here are just some of the ways we’re nurturing an inclusive environment – one where you can express your ideas, extend your skills and reach your potential…

We’re creating a space where people with disabilities can excel through transparent recruitment process, workplace adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Feel free to let us know about your circumstances when you apply, and we’ll take it from there.

We’re closing the gap – whether that’s through action on equal pay or by enabling more women to reach senior roles in engineering and technology.

We’re striving to be a pioneer of an inclusive and diverse workplace, promoting equality for employees regardless of or .

We consider ourselves a flexible employer and want to support you finding the right balance. We encourage you to discuss this with us in your application.

A rewarding place to work

Combine our creative, collaborative environment and global operations with an impressive range of benefits and joining Shell becomes an inspired career choice.

We’re huge advocates for career development. We’ll encourage you to try new roles and experience new settings. By pushing people to reach their potential, we frequently help them find skills they never knew they had, or make career moves they never thought possible.