Commercial Operator - Marine

Alberta, Canada

Job Family Group:

Downstream Supply Chain

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

September 1, 2026

Business Unit:

Trading and Supply

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

What’s the role?

Shell is seeking a Marine Commercial Operator to join its team in Calgary.

Trading and Supply (T&S) is at the heart of Shell's Downstream business. T&S has the primary responsibility of managing and optimizing the physical supply chain. Our goal is to deliver the right product to the right place on time while maximizing the overall margin for Shell.

This position is one of 30 positions within Trading & Supply Commercial Operations Products Team. Together, the team is responsible for managing the physical delivery of product movements across Canada.

The Operations team works closely with the Channel Optimizer and Trading teams (e.g. Gasoline, Distillates, Fuel Oil, Feedstock, Biofuels, Low Carbon Fuel) to help optimize overall profitability through its commercial acumen and expertise in blending, scheduling and refinery operations.

The Marine Commercial Operator role is key in ensuring Shell Canada Products meets its local demand requirements for Vancouver and Vancouver Island as well as enabling the Shell Trading Canada’s diesel export business. Working closely with the Gasoline and Distillate Traders, the successful candidate will be required to effectively move gasoline, Diesel, and Jet products via marine cargo.

What you’ll be doing

• Collaboration with Terminal Operations and domestic/international Charterer to ensure the timely delivery of marine vessels to maintain Shellburn/Bare Point inventory levels, ensuring local demands are met.
• Demonstrating commercial mindset, enabling the marine export capability of distillates from the West Coast coordinating vessel loading with third party operation teams.
• Working with marine agents, freight providers, and inspection companies to ensure the timely and accurate movement of product for the above-mentioned marine activities.
• Manage product quality requirements for marine movements, working with PQ department to identify and correct issues that arise.
• Work with Fuels Compliance and Customs Analyst to ensure that Shell Trading is compliant on all marine imports/export moves.
• Demonstrate continuous improvement, challenge norms, and deliver new ways to improve existing processes.
• Provide backup coverage for other scheduling desks during vacation periods, primarily other marine commercial operators.

System Duties

• Actualization of product deliveries to ensure accurate transactions and to manage exposure to trading book.
• Performing Loss/gain analysis of marine movements
• Data management, tracking logistics performance (KPIs), operational analytics around inventory, demands, freight performance, demurrage, etc.

The position requires a high level of accuracy while working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. The successful candidate must be very detail-oriented and understand the need for urgency and communication inherent in the role.

Highly effective planning and organization skills, including problem solving and troubleshooting, are essential to meet the department’s demanding schedules and goals.

As this is an operational role, the incumbent will need to be contactable outside office hours to oversee important activities or resolve unplanned operational issues. In case of unplanned activities, work pressure can be significant. In addition, during the year there are times when the incumbent will need to complete time sensitive month end activities on statutory holidays (e.g. Canada Day). Time in lieu will be provided to compensate.

This role follows a hybrid work arrangement, requiring employees to work on-site three (3) days per week with the option to work from home two (2) days per week.

What you bring

• Must have legal authorization to work in Canada on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer
• University degree is preferred, but candidates with equivalent work experience will be considered
• 3 or more years of relevant experiences in any supply, distribution, or trading operations
• Demonstrate good interpersonal skills and the ability to work with multiple parties and stakeholders, both internal and external, with fluid information and able to connect the dots and deliver feasible schedules
• Able to handle multiple competing priorities, tight timelines and make decisions amidst ambiguity
• Able to understand key elements of the supply chain and operations, scheduling and transportation, and execution of contracts
• Experience in marine shipping, customer service, demurrage and freight documentation will be an asset
• Also, due to the data processing requirements Excel are required, VBA and SQL skills are a plus.
• Experience with GSAP, Endur, automation and AI integration would be an asset

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, .

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 fuel 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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