Job Family Group:

Engineering Group

Job Description:

About bp

bp Technical Solutions India (TSI) centre in Pune, strives to build on bp’s existing engineering and technical strengths to deliver high quality services to its hydrocarbons and new energy businesses worldwide. TSI brings together diverse engineering capability to provide technical services across a range of areas including engineering, maintenance, optimization, data processes, projects and subsurface, to deliver safe, affordable and lower emission energy, while continuously innovating how we work.

Let me tell you about the role

The offshore structural engineer will provide field input for operation support, including maintenance, inspection, anomaly management, and brownfield projects. In addition, the engineer will proactively interact with other fields and contractors to systematically resolve problems and apply sound engineering judgment to drive coordinated, pragmatic solutions on risk management, operation efficiency, defect elimination, and standardization.

The offshore structural engineer would be based in Pune, India. The successful candidate will support our operational assets in the North Sea region. The candidate may need to support other regional assets according to business needs.

We are looking for a candidate with a solid technical background to make fit-for-purpose recommendations for operation support. In addition, the successful candidate needs good collaborator leadership skills and can effectively communicate the technical outcomes to ensure engineering risks are understood, controlled, and continuously reduced across the business to deliver safe and reliable operating results.

What you will deliver

• Being a coordinated member (remotely) in the regional Integrity Management (IM) squad team to handle the regional offshore bottom founded (fixed) structures in a suitable condition to deliver the company’s safety and business goals.
• Supporting the regional deployed C&S engineers to deliver the regional structural integrity management plans based on company mentorship and industry codes; responsible for drafting structural inspection and monitoring requirements, and maintenance strategies in determining facility’s current condition; handling significant deterioration in topside, jacket and foundations conditions or any deviation following the offshores structures performance standards through the anomaly management process, quantifying the risks, and making sound engineering recommendations for mitigation actions.
• Being the field engineer in defining the structural engineering scope of work for brownfield projects and providing technical assurance for third-party engineering deliveries, managing relationships with third-party providers and contractors, ensuring build and operations follow industry codes and technical practices and performance standards, assessing the impact of significant changes in load (weight) or changes (metocean or others) to operating conditions on the integrity of the assets.
• Supporting the regional severe weather evacuation preparation if required; and following a rare acute storm, seismic or ship impact event; or during winter storm inspection.
• Supervising modifications and associated weight changes on platforms and maintaining as-designed and as-is structural models for the platforms.
• Driving efforts to ensure structural risks are understood, controlled, and continuously reduced across the business to deliver safe and reliable operating results, optimally communicating risks to business and technical collaborators.
• Actively contributing to the offshore structure’s Community of Practice (CoP) and sharing guidelines and findings.
• Adheres to the company’s code of conduct, ethics and compliance rules, and values & behaviours, and is a role model for the team.
• Supporting agile working as part of an agile team or providing support to an agile team as required.

Must have educational qualifications:

• Degree in civil/structural engineering, or a closely aligned field.

Must have certifications:

• Chartered engineer, professional engineer, or near chartered/professional status in closely aligned field, or evidence of progression towards full chartered/professional status.

Preferred education/certifications:

• Postgraduate qualification in civil/structural engineering, or a closely aligned field.

Minimum years of shown experience:

• 3+ years

Total years of experience:

• 3+ years

Must have experiences/skills (To be hired with)

• Capable of communicating both verbally and in writing clearly and succinctly.
• Knowledge of discipline-related industry standards (e.g., ISO 19900 series, API 2A-WSD, AISC WSD) and ideally some classification society requirements(e.g., ABS, DNV, BV).
• Proven industry experience in offshore structures' build, construction, installation, or integrity management.
• Strong technical skills in topside, jacket and foundation structural design and analyses.
• Experience in bringing value through the formation and delivery of cost-effective improvement programs.
• Ability to collaborate with multiple collaborators to achieve common intent and purpose for multi-discipline programs.

Good to have experiences/skills (Can be trained for – learning/on-the-job):

• Sophisticated knowledge of working with Agile principles and tools
• Customer service approach
• Working level experience in integrity management support for offshore fixed or floating platforms and in leading the inspection, inspection data management, analysis, fitness-for-service, modification, and repair of structures during the operating phase.
• Experience in management of change, risk assessment, performance management, maintenance and repair strategies.
• Experience in applying risk-based methodology for platform inspection and anomaly management.

You will work with

• Other central field engineering teams
• Regional IM Teams
• Regional and central IM execution teams
• Regional facility support squads and operations teams
• Projects delivery leads
• Maintenance teams within bpTSI and Regions
• External Vendors
• Adhoc teams as required

Why join bp

At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, and excellent retirement benefits, among others!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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:

Agility core practices, Analytical Thinking, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Creativity and Innovation, Data Analysis, Design approaches, Designing for climate change and zero carbon, Digital Fluency, Emerging technology monitoring, Engineering evaluation, Incident investigation and learning, Inspection and monitoring strategy, Numerical modelling, Scripting, Sustainability awareness and action, Technology Development, Uncertainty Quantification

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