Shell to hire 40 for Beaver County site

Task, Action and Result to illustrate their point.

“We’ll have a lot of applicants, so you want to rehearse your interview with someone that you trust,” Ms. Borstell said.

Shellplans to hire 160 operators in the next few years, she said. The current round is scheduled to close June 3, but if the deadline needs to be extended, it will be, she said.

It wasn’t immediately clear what operators hired for a nonexistent facility will be doing before it opens or is ready for commissioning.

Mr. Marr said only that those hired in the next few months and after will be in training until startup. He said it’s Shell’s intention to have as much of the training done on site as possible.

The company and the region have hyped this opportunity so much that potential applicants must be careful not to fall for employment scams, where hopefuls are told to send money to someone posing as a Shell representative.

Shell has posted a warning about such scams on its career website.

“Recent incidents have occurred involving organizations falsely claiming to recruit on behalf of Shell,” it says. “These organizations, purporting to either work for or be affiliated with Shell, notify individuals that their qualifications were found suitable to work as an employee for Shell and solicit the transfer of significant sums of money to pay for work permits,insurance policies, etc.”

You can spot them coming from a non-Shell email address, their poor English and, the most obvious tell — asking for money.

Mr. Marr said he didn’t know if people in this region had been targeted by these efforts.