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Reference ID R181652 Updated 07/28/2025
Maintenance, Reliability and Turnarounds
Pennsylvania
Monaca
N/A

Join Shell Polymers Monaca, a world-scale petrochemical plant that transforms locally produced ethane from Marcellus and Utica shale formations into polyethylene. Our facility includes a state-of-the-art Ethane Cracker Unit (ECU), multiple polyethylene (PE) units, PE logistics, and supporting OSBL (utilities, general facilities, storage, and hydrocarbon logistics).

What’s the role

As a Maintenance Team Leader, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth operation of our static and rotating equipment, leading a dedicated team, and driving continuous improvement.

What you’ll be doing

  • Supervise, coach, and develop a team of 6-15 Shell craft to execute maintenance activities

  • Work closely with contractor foremen to ensure effective utilization of contract technicians

  • Act as a recognized specialist in static and rotating equipment within the department

  • Distribute and discuss daily jobs with craft, manage unplanned work, and coordinate break-in jobs

  • Review the need for and arrange overtime as needed, identify delays, and manage craft issues

  • Promote craft development and flexibility, ensuring compliance with standards and codes

  • Periodically check and validate the completion and quality of work

  • Participate in the hiring process by interviewing prospective employees

  • Understand, support, and deliver relevant aspects of the Maintenance Execution Process

Continuous Improvement:

  • Work closely with craft team members to identify opportunities for improvement

  • Constantly seek ways to improve cost-effectiveness

  • Provide feedback to improve preventative maintenance plans and drive reliability

Training & Craft Development:

  • Ensure craft team members have the proper skills to manage and execute their assigned work

  • Act as a qualified assessor, evaluating each craft team member to ensure skill level competency

Other Responsibilities:

  • Provide 24/7 staffing during temporary shutdowns or outages, support the Major Maintenance team, and serve as a Volunteer Emergency Response Team Member

  • Ensure all documentation is maintained, history is captured in SAP, and feedback is provided to the planning team via SAP

Personnel Attributes:

  • Strong interpersonal and negotiating skills

  • Ability to mentor and develop team members

  • Effective stakeholder management across disciplines, production, and maintenance

What we need from you

  • Must have legal authorization to work in the US

  • You must have a minimum of 5 years’ experience in manufacturing maintenance field execution

  • High school graduate/GED is required. An associate degree or higher is beneficial but not required

  • Strong understanding of Maintenance Execution (ME) work processes and other Shell Work Processes (RCM, EI, IPF, etc.)

  • Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills. Ability to deliver results through others

  • Prior experience managing union-based employees is desired but not required

  • Skilled in the use of SAP (CMMS) and proficient in MS-Word, Excel, Outlook

  • Strong background in static and rotating equipment and major unit/equipment outage activities. Maintenance experience at SPM is a plus

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

  • Demonstrated ability as a team player, willing to offer and accept challenges and feedback

  • Able to perform work with little or no supervision

  • Able to lead a group of employees and work one-on-one to achieve business objectives

  • Able to manage multiple tasks

  • Demonstrates the company's core values: Values and Respects All People, Integrity, Customer Focus, Excellence, and Acts for the Greater Whole

  • Must be able to work in an industrial environment, occasionally climbing ladders and stairs to access process equipment

  • Your expected field time is approximately 30-50%

  • Expected travel is 0-10%, depending on training or other site needs

What we offer

The base salary range for this position is $101, 000 - $150, 000 per year. Individual pay will be based on various factors such as relevant work experience, education, certifications, skill level, seniority, and internal equity.

For regular full-time or regular part-time employees of the Company (participating companies as listed in the Summary Plan Description), insurance coverage options include medical, dental, vision coverage, life Insurance, Business Travel Accident Insurance, and Occupational Accidental Death Benefit programs. Employees also participate in a company pension plan and a 401(k) plan. Paid leave includes up to 6 weeks of paid vacation time, up to 11 paid holidays, and parental leave offering 16 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents, and 8 weeks of paid leave for non-birthing parents.

Additionally, employees are eligible for short-term disability leave for up to 26 weeks at 100% or 50% of base pay as well as Long-Term Disability insurance. Shell also offers other compensation such financial reimbursement for adoption, wellness, education, and personal learning expenses, and some roles are eligible for discretionary long-term incentives.  For interns, eligible benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, Business Travel Accident Insurance, and Occupational Accidental Death Benefit programs; participation in a 401(k) plan; and paid leave for up to 11 paid holidays.  Additional information on Shell’s US benefit programs can be found at https://www.shell.us/careers/about-careers-at-shell/rewards-and-benefits.html.

You bring your skills and experience to Shell and in return you work with talented, committed people on one of the most important challenges facing our planet. 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 the energy transition 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 considered to be 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 The United States

Shell has been in the US for more than 100 years, leading the sector in energy, petrochemicals and refined products.  Today, we provide millions of Americans with the energy needed to heat and cool their homes and power the economy. 

We operate in all 50 states, from our Deep-Water platforms in the Gulf of America to the Pennsylvania Chemicals complex and our miles of pipelines throughout the US.

We reach our customers through our 13,000 branded retail stations, and we are number 1 in gasoline sales. We also own the #1 brand of motor oil in the U.S. – Pennzoil® – made from natural gas.

We are excited to play a key role in the move to net carbon emissions while providing the oil and gas needed by society for many decades to come.