Asset Inspector

Alberta, Canada

Job Family Group:

Discipline Engineering

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

May 4, 2026

Business Unit:

Downstream and Renewables

Experience Level:

Early Careers

Job Description:

What’s the role

Shell Canada is seeking an Asset Inspector – Refinery, Chemical & Distribution to join its team at the Scotford Refinery.

The Asset Inspector is responsible for ensuring pressure equipment integrity at the Scotford Refinery. This role manages aspects of inspection, materials, welding, quality control, quality assurance, equipment design, procedure review, and the creation or updating of pressure equipment standards and specifications. In addition, the Asset Inspector provides technical support to production and maintenance teams on day-to-day plant issues, as well as during operational and equipment-related problems.

The Asset Inspector ensures that all pressure equipment is designed, fabricated, operated, inspected, maintained, altered, and repaired in a manner that preserves pressure equipment integrity and complies with applicable regulations and standards. This role serves as an advocate for pressure equipment safety and strives toward zero leaks. The Asset Inspector proactively improves and executes the site’s Pressure Equipment Integrity Management (PEIM) system and associated work processes.

The role primarily focuses on a 90-day outlook, ensuring the PEIM program for assigned units is executed while also supporting medium- to long-term unit issues and improvement opportunities. A portion of the role involves short-term support for emerging unit issues that may pose a risk to the business plan.

Accountabilities:

• Daily activities of reviewing shift logs and shift plan in preparation for daily team meetings

• Plan, coordinate, and execute integrity inspections, assessments, recommendations, and monitoring requirements including maintaining unit KPIs

• Responsible for the implementation of the PEIM program for the assigned process unit

• Maintenance of the Inspection database system (IMS)

• Pressure Equipment Integrity (PEI) Focal for Maintenance Team Leaders and Asset Shift Team Leaders within their area to quickly resolve emergent threats to the business plan

• Assessment, analysis, optimization, and documentation of Inspection results

• Support Shell Risk Based Inspection (RBI) assessments

• Responsible for creation of piping and equipment repair plans and their adherence to API, ASME, and jurisdictional ABSA requirements

• Technical review and support of management of change (MOC) work, equipment inspection deferrals or extensions, and RBI assessments

• Technical support of equipment re-rating, fitness for service evaluations and remaining life assessments

• Review and approval of construction and repair Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs)

• Responsible for the placement, monitoring, and RBI assessment of condition monitoring locations (CMLs) on equipment and piping, while optimizing to assure integrity and efficiency

• Troubleshoot failures & provide recommendations for repair / replacement based on materials failure analysis, causal analysis, and root-cause analysis

• Perform maintenance & integrity quality assurance duties on assigned assets

• Provide direction, monitor the progression, and review reporting of non-destructive examination (NDE) in their assigned units, ensuring the personnel safety of NDE contractors working in their respective area

• Input to annual budget process for integrity/inspection issues

• Assist and coach team members in removing and overcoming barriers they find with executing PEI integrity activities

• Support the PEI work process through all stages of degradation assessments, inspection planning, perform inspection, analyze results, and corrective action

• Work collaboratively with our customers and stakeholders in Production, Maintenance, Projects, Turnaround, Engineering and Technology teams

• May be required to fill a reserve worker role

What you bring

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

• Must have a technical diploma in materials engineering technology or related discipline

• At least 2 years of professional experience at petrochemical or other industrial sites

• Possession of at least one of the following certifications is desired: API 510, API 570, API 653, or ABSA In‑Service Pressure Equipment (Boiler) Inspector

• Experience with Non-Destructive Examination (NDE) techniques

• Working knowledge of pressure equipment design, corrosion mechanisms, codes and standards, inspection techniques, welding, metallurgy, and process safety

• Working knowledge of applicable industry standards for piping, pressure vessels, storage tanks, and/or heat exchangers such as SME Pressure Vessel and Piping Codes, API, ASTM, WRC is preferred

• Knowledge in the application of Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) is preferred

• Proficient in the MS Office suite of software, including PI and Process Book

• Ability to interpret ambiguous data and clearly articulate its meaning

• Willingness and ability to provide off-hours and overtime support as needed for urgent plant issues

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 & those 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, sexual orientations, and life experiences to apply. 

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 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 26 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

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