Senior Reliability Engineer, Scotford

Overview

Senior Reliability Engineer (SRE) provides site-wide strategic reliability leadership, with accountability for the Reliability/Availability Strategy and its governance. The role translates business objectives into an integrated reliability ecosystem spanning Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, TA, Business, Supply Chain, and other partners toward becoming a High Reliability Organization. The SRE acts as a trusted advisor to the Asset Leadership Team (ALT) by shaping mid- to long-term asset improvement plans, establishing decision criteria and governance, and ensuring learning loops convert into sustainable business improvements such as safety, integrity, uptime, margin, and cost competitiveness. The role leads a regular reliability governance rhythm with the ALT to align priorities, escalate constraints, and confirm delivery against targets. This role will report to the Business Improvement Manager.Responsibilities

Develop, steward, and govern reliability and availability strategies for Scotford, using reliability benchmarking and internal/external performance insights to set standards and decision criteria, define multi-year roadmaps, and lead governance reviews aligned to business trajectory, safety/integrity requirements, and availability targets.Define the decision criteria and decision support required to prioritise and endorse reliability/availability investments and care strategy changes, bringing recommendations and risk/value trade-offs to the ALT for approval and tracking delivery through governance forums. Accountable for the site reliability improvement portfolio and high-value efforts—ensuring scope, resourcing alignment, and sustained execution against agreed targets.Sponsor and lead the Reliability discipline improvement plan; partner with stakeholders to set, refresh, and assure execution of mid- to long-term asset care strategies. Integrate engineering, operations, maintenance to deliver reliability as a system outcome; assure execution against asset improvement plans and adjust strategies based on performance and changing conditions.Deploy and embed High Reliability Organization (HRO) principles; coach leaders and teams so reliability is treated as a leadership responsibility and learning is converted into sustained improvement. Own governance of critical reliability performance controls (e.g., Data Systems; Unplanned Downtime (UPDT)/Operational Availability (OA) reporting), ensuring data quality, disciplined work process execution, and insight-to-action, including triggering performance interventions as needed.Lead formal audits of reliability work processes; improve interfaces to ensure they deliver the intended reliability outcomes. Diagnose and solve significant, complex, and non-routine problems; translate practices from elsewhere and provide authoritative, technical recommendations with material impact on business performance in the short and medium term.Champion Big Hit Management and enable disciplined learning through key work processes to ensure performance improvements are sustained. Qualifications

The candidate must have legal authorization to work in Canada on a full-time basis. Bachelor’s degree in engineering (or related engineering discipline) from an accredited institution (or equivalent technical discipline/experience). 15 or more years of industry experience (operations, maintenance, engineering, or reliability) in asset‑intensive environments.Proven ability to deliver medium- to long-term reliability/availability improvements using risk-based asset care strategies, structured problem solving, and systems thinking. Demonstrated ability to lead through influence across disciplines and organizational boundaries, balancing competing priorities and enabling delivery through others.Recognized Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Reliability; knowledge of RCM, FMEA, Reliability Modelling, Lean Six Sigma; problem solving methodology is desirable. Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and change management skills with credibility across Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and senior Leadership.The role will require MRTA Technical Authority Level 3 (TA3). Candidate must already hold TA3 or commit to achieving MRTA TA3 within an agreed timeframe following appointment. Additional Information

Shell is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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