Entity:
Production & Operations
Job Family Group:
Engineering Group
Job Description:
Responsibilities
- Provide upstream corrosion and materials engineering expertise to other squads across P&O (Operations, Maintenance & Reliability, Projects Ops, Turnarounds and Subsea) to handle corrosion and erosion threats on equipment for which they are the Equipment Class Owner.
- Ensure pragmatic solutions are identified and implemented to handle risk, production efficiency, defect elimination and standardization, to deliver safe, reliable, and compliant operations.
- Support corrosion threat assessments for production regions and projects and development of Corrosion and Materials mitigation programs across IM and other teams.
- Develop performance management dashboards for IM programs with regional teams. Review and endorse corrosion-related metrics (e.g. corrosion control matrices and LOPC data) and intervene where appropriate.
- Work with digital or I&E engineering teams to develop corrosion & materials related technology programs, develop use cases for operations and projects and support deployment within operating regions.
- Integrate with associated teams to ensure adequate equipment care, including production chemistry, pressure systems integrity, structural & civil engineering, and pipeline engineering.
- Develop central tools and processes, and prepare and update central guidance documents, workflows, or procedures, as required.
- Provide corrosion and materials engineering support to incident investigations.
- Record relevant learning in shared learning systems, incorporate into local activities, specifications/ practices/ procedures and raise high priority lessons.
- Continuous improvement of bp related technical standards based on best industry practices, best site practices and lessons learned, and support / lead their implementation in our operating sites.
- Lead / support visible performance management definition, tools, processes, and cadence to drive excellence in the mechanical integrity of our operations.
People and business related:
- Provide visible safety leadership in accordance with bp safety leadership principles, lifesaving rules and process safety fundamentals to model desired safety behaviors.
- Record relevant learning in shared learning systems, incorporate into local activities, specifications/ practices/ procedures and raise high priority lessons.
- Support performance management through implementation, measurement, and analysis of relevant KPI’s to drive continuous improvement.
- Support staff development of junior engineers
Education
Must have education requirements:
- Degree in Corrosion or Materials Engineering related field (e.g., chemical engineering, chemistry, mechanical engineering, civil engineering).
- Post graduate certification in corrosion.
Must have certifications:
- Professional accreditation e.g., Professional Engineer, Chartered Engineer (IOM3, IChemE, Institute of Corrosion).
Preferred education/certifications:
- Experience of API 580 and API 581 risk-based inspection method.
- Certification and/or in-depth knowledge NACE Senior Corrosion Technologist, BSI ISO/ ENI AS Standards, AWS/ CSWIP/ ASNT NDT Techniques
Experience and job requirements
Minimum years of relevant experience:
- 10+ years’ experience working in the field of Corrosion or Materials Engineering in oil and gas production.
Total years of experience:
- 10+ years’ experience working in the field of Corrosion or Materials Engineering in oil and gas production.
Must have experiences/skills:
- Operational corrosion management experience.
- Technical expertise in several areas related to the discipline applied to Operations. These include:
- Materials selection
- Failure investigation
- Corrosion mechanisms in both refining and production processes
- Oilfield chemical treatments for corrosion control
- RBA (risk-based assessment)
- RBI (risk-based inspection)
- Corrosion monitoring
- Corrosion management systems
- Fabric maintenance / painting
- Cathodic protection
- Erosion and erosion management
- Familiar with industry standards for corrosion and integrity management and their application.
- Experience in bringing value through the formation and delivery of cost-effective improvement programs
- Ability and confidence to engage with and influence senior leadership on technical matters.
- People leadership, teamwork and an ability to network and influence across organizational boundaries
- Familiar with process design, process safety and operating conditions of typical O&G units
- Fluent in English, written and oral.
Good to have experiences/skills:
- Welding.
- Sour service.
- Integrity management in oil and gas projects.
- Inspection traditional techniques (UT / radiography / visual) and advanced techniques.
- Metallographic analysis review and interpretation
- Advanced knowledge of working with agile principles and tools
- Experience working collaboratively in a global organization.
- Customer service mentality
Shift support : Working hours (India / UK shift) to support Business Partners
% Travel requirements : Upto 10%
Travel Requirement
Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role
Relocation Assistance:
This role is eligible for relocation within country
Remote Type:
This position is not available for remote working
Skills:
Advanced & Robotics Inspection Technologies, Advanced & Robotics Inspection Technologies, Agility core practices, Analytical Thinking, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Corrosion Management, Corrosion modelling, Creativity and Innovation, Data Management, Degradation monitoring, Degradation threat assessment, Digital fluency, Engineering Failure Analysis, Equipment preservation and protection, Erosion modelling, External degradation barrier selection, External degradation threats, Incident investigation and learning, Internal degradation barrier selection, Materials and corrosion design philosophy, Materials and weld performance limits, Materials manufacturing methods, Materials Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE), Materials of construction {+ 10 more}
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