Selangor, Malaysia

Job Family Group:

Production and Manufacturing Downstream:

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

February 27, 2026

Business Unit:

Projects and Technology:

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

What’s the role

The Technical Specialist- Scheduling Advisor enables sites to maximize value from margin‑optimization activities by implementing effective planning and scheduling work processes, enhancing staff capability, and ensuring accurate representations within optimization and scheduling models (including gasoline blending). The Advisor brings deep expertise in both the understanding and application of site Scheduling Models for Refinery and Chemical planning, supported by the deployment of advanced digital technologies. They work in close partnership with site E&S teams, P&T Basic Data, Scheduling, Crude, and FPP Excellence Advisors.

This role is critical to ensuring the E&S community receives strong, consistent support and to helping sites capture maximum value. The Scheduling Advisor’s remit covers the entire EU E&S community, with direct focus on Pernis, Rhineland, the Rotterdam hub, and Moerdijk (as needed). The Advisor also collaborates with peers in North America and the East to maintain a high level of technical competency and to support collective upskilling across regions.

What you’ll be doing

• Serves as the primary technical authority for the E&S Scheduling tools (currently Aspen APS/Orion), supporting site Scheduling teams in both Scheduling and Blending operations.

• Provides rapid problem‑solving support to practitioners to ensure business continuity, escalating issues to central TBI Optimization Advisors or external vendors when necessary.

• Deploys new advanced simulation and optimization capabilities, including improved process‑plant representations and visualizations within Scheduling tools. Ensures scheduling models remain lean, current, and aligned with PIMS, Orion, and MBO models, while communicating changes across Scheduling and Planning Advisors and EMCs.

• Supports configuration, maintenance, and development of all existing and new reporting outputs. Provides programming, testing, enhancements, and upkeep for non‑IT supported data inputs and Solution reports.

• Maintains structured best‑practice documentation and drives adoption across the E&S community for Scheduling and Blending.

• Supports effective back casting processes that maintain model health and fidelity across sub models, databases, data tables, model logic, routings, blend rules, and property sets—consistently enabling optimal decision‑making by practitioners.

• Assists in the onboarding and development of new employees, ensuring familiarity with scheduling tools and all relevant FPP work processes.

• Supports structured margin‑improvement initiatives and helps implement recommendations related to Scheduling and Blending capabilities at site level.

• Ensures accurate and validated data flows from daily baseline interface configurations (PI and LIMS), all movement interfaces, and hourly plant data—enabling reliable “model accuracy” graphs, including hourly tank inventory snapshots, stream flows/yields, and operating conditions.

• Manages site database user accounts, including setting up and maintaining user‑group model/event permissions.

• Maintains, programs, and updates the site MDB Pass‑through database, including Aspen Tech data queries.

What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering or a related engineering discipline.

• Extensive experience with refinery scheduling and blending operations, including hands‑on use of Aspen APS/Orion and other Aspen Tech petroleum applications.

• Strong technical expertise in simulation and optimization tools, with the ability to deploy advanced modelling capabilities and maintain alignment with PIMS, Orion, and MBO models.

• Proficiency in data management and reporting, including configuring, maintaining, and developing reporting outputs, as well as programming, testing, and enhancing non‑IT supported data inputs and solution reports.

• Experience in maintaining model integrity, including sub‑models, databases, logic tables, routing, blend rules, and property sets to ensure high‑fidelity planning and scheduling decisions.

• Ability to diagnose and resolve technical issues quickly, providing rapid support to scheduling practitioners and escalating to central advisors or external vendors when required.

• Strong documentation and process‑standardization skills, with the ability to develop, maintain, and drive adoption of best practices across Scheduling and Blending communities.

• Experience supporting margin improvement initiatives and implementing enhancements to scheduling and blending capabilities at the site level**.**

What we offer

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 organisation 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 programmes.

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.

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