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One of the sponsors that I ran into at the career fair trade for Engineers Without Borders conference.

Shell Company Description:

With operations in more than 110 countries, we employ around 104,000 people worldwide. We are traded on the stock exchanges of Amsterdam, London and New York. Here are just some of the fast facts that define us as a global business:

• We have the capacity to process some 4 million barrels of oil per day
• More than 300 distribution facilities, nearly 2,500 storage tanks and 9,000 kilometres of pipeline
• The world’s largest single-branded fuel retail network with some 45,000 petrol stations across more than 90 countries
• The capacity to supply the equivalent of 11 litres of commercial fuel per person on the planet each year
• We provide aviation fuel at over 880 airports across some 70 countries, refuelling a plane every 12 seconds
• A global fleet of nearly 7,000 Shell-owned or contracted trucks that make a delivery somewhere in the world every 6 seconds
• Supply 15,000 metric tonnes of bitumen products for construction every day to 14,000 customers worldwide allowing us to resurface over 450kms of road daily
• Provide LPG to around 30 million end customers via 3,500 distributors and 100,000 points of sale located in 30 countries.
• Supply a range of marine fuels and lubricants to vessels ranging from large ocean-going tankers to small fishing boats in ports worldwide.
• Develop pioneering products to provide innovative uses for sulphur by-product including road applications, enhanced fertilisers and concrete.
• Support 30,000 Business to Business retail and lubricants customers worldwide through some 1,500 Customer Service professionals in 35 countries.
• We make and sell more than 3,000 different lubricants for sectors as diverse as automotive, food processing and power generation across 120 countries.
• Through its shareholding in one of Canada’s largest oil sands developers, extracting and developing bitumen to produce synthetic crude oil for use as refinery feedstocks.

Our strategy and priorities for the future are ‘more upstream and profitable downstream’. ‘Upstream’ refers to the ways we find and extract conventional fuel out of the ground, while ‘downstream’ refers to the process of passing these fuels through to refineries and on to consumers, in both instances in a socially responsible way.

We believe that for many decades to come we will need to rely on oil and gas for economic development. We are looking for ambitious graduates to help us develop new ways of making use of what we’ve got – now and in the future.

So I just checked out a few of their positions available for Industrial Grad students. From the descriptions, I would be interested in the latter two, Discipline or Supply/Distribution Engineer. Here’s some description on each below:

Asset Maintenance Engineer
We’re committed to providing engineering expertise to support business-critical decisions for onshore or offshore oil and gas production facilities, refineries and chemical sites.
Join us, and you’ll help to drive the continued technical performance of our installations as well as proactively maintaining the safety and environmental integrity of our operating assets.
Working closely with operating teams and engineers from a range of disciplines, you can expect to:

• Provide technical support and troubleshooting
• Manage the reliability and integrity of plant hardware and equipment
• Manage and monitor budgets
• Contribute to new plant designs, construction and improvements
• Manage health and safety initiatives
• Develop and manage overhaul plans.

Discipline Engineer
With involvement in everything from well tubing, process plants and refineries to pipelines and tankers, we’re seeking skilled professional engineers from a wide range of technical disciplines.
Our Discipline Engineers come from a mix of engineering backgrounds including mechanical, civil, rotating equipment, electrical, instrument, materials, corrosion and process control. Join us, and you can expect to be involved in projects from early conceptual design onwards.
Depending on your role, you could be involved in:

• The design and concept selection of new on/offshore facilities
• Maintaining and optimising existing on/offshore facilities
• Ensuring safe, reliable and environmentally responsible operations for internal and external customers around the globe.

Supply / Distribution
Join us in this area and you’ll have exposure to international procurement dynamics along with the opportunity to use the most advanced procurement tools and techniques to contract for goods and services.
With us, you could be involved in a wide range of activities, including:

• Day-to-day planning to ensure fulfilment of the business strategy
• Balancing supply and demand, considering logistical constraints as well as sales estimates
• Performing market analysis
• Supporting contract negotiations and reviews
• Analysing risks versus costs
• Optimising distribution channels.