diff --git a/charms/slurmctld/src/charm.py b/charms/slurmctld/src/charm.py
index 187154d..8171f79 100755
--- a/charms/slurmctld/src/charm.py
+++ b/charms/slurmctld/src/charm.py
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ def _resume_nodes(self, nodelist: List[str]) -> None:
         """Run scontrol to resume the specified node list."""
         nodes = ",".join(nodelist)
         update_cmd = f"update nodename={nodes} state=resume"
-        self._slurmctld.scontrol(update_cmd)
+        self._slurmctld.scontrol(*shlex.split(update_cmd))
 
     @property
     def _cluster_name(self) -> str:
diff --git a/charms/slurmctld/tests/unit/test_charm.py b/charms/slurmctld/tests/unit/test_charm.py
index 29fc2bc..70532ea 100644
--- a/charms/slurmctld/tests/unit/test_charm.py
+++ b/charms/slurmctld/tests/unit/test_charm.py
@@ -168,3 +168,12 @@ def test_get_user_supplied_parameters(self, *_) -> None:
             self.harness.charm._assemble_slurm_conf().job_acct_gather_frequency,
             "task=30,network=40",
         )
+
+    def test_resume_nodes_valid_input(self) -> None:
+        """Test that the _resume_nodes method provides a valid scontrol command."""
+        self.harness.charm._slurmctld.scontrol = Mock()
+        self.harness.charm._resume_nodes(["juju-123456-1", "tester-node", "node-three"])
+        args, _ = self.harness.charm._slurmctld.scontrol.call_args
+        self.assertEqual(
+            args, ("update", "nodename=juju-123456-1,tester-node,node-three", "state=resume")
+        )