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Reference ID R176546 Updated 04/04/2025
Discipline Engineering
Canada, Canada
Fort St. John, Calgary
N/A

What’s the role

Shell Canada is seeking an Automation Technician to join the assets Operational Technical Team. The role involves providing support to all facilities and interfacing with the Infrastructure and Brownfield Projects teams, ensuring awareness and support for operational requirements.

Accountabilities:

  • Perform automation activities covering all key areas of development, maintenance, programming

  • Analyze and explore improvements for maintenance/design/reliability on Controls & Automation system covering SIS, F&G, PLC

  • Conduct bad actor analysis for nuisance trips based on SAP notifications and remote troubleshooting

  • Ensure Functional Safety and Safety Instrumented System (SIS) requirements for SIF/SIL validation, verification and Safety Life Cycle Plan

  • Provide support on HAZID, HAZOP, SIS/IPF Classification studies, and any other relevant studies pertaining to engineering

  • Conduct or support failure analysis of automation failures or incidents

  • Identify unit performance improvement opportunities and reliability risks, and work with area team to determine and implement cost effective solutions

  • Gatekeeper for critical documents, including C&E, Control Narratives, Alarm Tables

  • Review and improve existing strategies and procedures in timely manner as per latest technical and maintenance requirements

  • Identify automation equipment obsolescence planning and upgrade strategies

  • Author Facility Changes (MOC) within the automation/PACO discipline and provide Technical Assurance of facility/wells logic changes

  • Own, lead and resolve Asset threats and opportunities with cost effective, root cause solutions

  • Support contract automation technicians

  • Contract owner/Holder duties with automation companies

  • Develop and participate in FAT’s and SAT’s

  • Manage field system telecoms and maintain 98% reliability

  • Develop Turnaround scopes and manage the execution of automation activities

What you bring

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

  • Automation engineer or trade certification in Instrumentation & Controls or Electrical

  • At least 5+ years of relevant experience in automation within oil and gas processing

  • Prior experience and exposure in Operations and Maintenance

  • Sound knowledge of Instrumentation and Controls, with working experience in field instruments, control systems such as SCADA, PLC, HMI, Telecommunications

  • Proficient with programming PLC’s, HMI, and RTU’S such as Rockwell, Yokogawa, Emerson, Bristol

  • Exposure to Preventive/ Corrective/breakdown maintenance and turnarounds