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Fired Equipment Technologist

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Reference ID R176976 Updated 04-29-2025
Discipline Engineering
Canada
Fort Saskatchewan
N/A

What’s the role

The Fired Equipment Technologist provides technical discipline support and leadership related to the safety, integrity, reliability, and operational performance of fired heat transfer equipment. The Fired Equipment Technologist focuses primarily within a 90-day outlook supporting medium to long term unit issues and opportunities. Portions of their time will be spent on the very short-term supporting emergent unit issues that threaten the business plan and cannot be resolved by Routine Maintenance, as well as supporting long-term threats and opportunities in fired equipment for the asset.

What you’ll be doing

  • Provide technical support on the design and selection of fired heat transfer equipment

  • Provide technical support on maintenance and operational issues, including troubleshooting and causal analysis of fired equipment in operating plants, including heaters, boilers, hydrogen reformers, high pressure steam boilers, refractory lined pressure equipment and the site flares

  • Develop and support new heat transfer equipment technologies and identify and facilitate application and deployment

  • Comply with corporate global standards and work processes

  • Support development, implementation and continuation of quality and reliability initiatives

  • Assure development of Ensure Safe Production operating variables on furnaces/flares as it pertains to combustion

  • Support the Turnaround organization by delivering high quality scope and being an active contributor during the planning and execution phases

  • Contribute to the Shell global Heat Transfer Technical Discipline Network

  • Maintain relationships with internal team members and stakeholders such as other discipline engineers and technologists, service managers, project and process engineers, Maintenance and Operations personnel

  • Drive “Enterprise First” behaviours through leadership, accountability and teamwork

What you bring

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

  • 5 years+ experience with fired equipment

  • Registered CET with ASET preferred

  • Solid working knowledge on API 560 Design and manufacture of Fired Heaters, API 530 Calculation of Heater Tube Thickness in Petroleum Refineries, API RP 534 Heat Recovery Steam Generators, API RP 535 Burners for Fired Heaters in General Refinery Services and NFPA 85 Boiler and Combustion Systems Hazards is an asset

  • Strong knowledge of materials and corrosion, welding, heat treatment and testing of fired heat transfer equipment is an asset

  • Skilled in coking principles of fired equipment with understanding behind the means to control it

  • Skill level in refractory technologies Experience working as part of a team, with evidence of leading, motivating, and coaching others considered a strong asset

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

  • Able to convey complex technical concepts in a clear, concise, and credible manner without using technical jargon

  • Results oriented and customer focused

  • Fluent in English – written and spoken