Senior Global Reliability Engineer

Job Description

Entity: Production & Operations Job Family Group: Engineering Group At bp, we’re reimagining energy for people and our planet. We’re leading the way in reducing carbon emissions and developing more sustainable methods for solving the energy challenge. We’re a team with multi-layered strengths of engineers, scientists, tradersand business professionals determined to find answers to problems.And we know we can’t do it alone. We’re looking for people who share our passion for reinvention, to bring fresh opinions, ambition, and to challenge our thinking in our goal to achieve net zero!Role Synopsis:Reliability will play a key role in ensuring that bp performs whilst it transforms. A highly reliable and profitable production entity enables bp to transition and increase its portfolio of products and become an International Energy Company. High reliabilityincreases our production, improves profitability, decreases costs, decreases our emissions and improves our efficiency in work management. bp is targeting 96% reliability across its Production organization and with a renewed focus and organization set up forReliability, now is a great time to join the team.The Reliability Engineers (RE) serve as the primary point of contact for reliability strategy, long term engineering evaluations and reliability program implementation to ensure asset availability, optimize life cycle costs, and embed reliability standardprocesses across the organization.As part of the bp Solutions Refining Reliability team, the RE will work closely with Maintenance, Engineering and Operations personnel for long term reliability issues. The RE will interface directly with the refinery teams and provide training and coachingon reliability standard processes to site personnel. They may also be deployed for specific intervention activity to identify reliability issues and develop improvement plans.Key Accountabilities:

• Leads or supports key activities of the reliability program e.g., facilitation of RCA (Root Cause Analysis), Vulnerability Studies, and equipment class reliability analysis.
• Champions link between safety and reliability.
• Interacts proactively with other teams in the supporting organizations ("Enablers") to seek alignment and efficiency improvement opportunities for the business.
• Takes part, either collaborating or leading in reliability aspects of reliability-related projects, deployments when it is required.
• Supports deployment, implementation, and embedding of reliability standard processes across the refining portfolio.
• Applies failure data and reliability tools such as Risk Based Maintenance to optimize maintenance and equipment strategies, in collaboration with subject area engineers.
• Leverages operator care standard methodologies (equipment basic care, operator rounds, lubrication program) to improve equipment reliability.
• Responsible for analyzing data and providing input and context to operational and maintenance activities.
• Identifies reliability/availability improvement type projects and develops initial justification, incentives, and business value.
• Understands how Asset Strategies support overall site targets and plays an integral role in assuring reliability risks are adequately addressed through Asset Strategies, TAR Strategies, Annual Maintenance Plans and Defect Elimination program.
• Expected to play a role in the reliability coaching and development of asset staff and advocate for a reliability perspective in asset decisions.

Essential Education:

• Bachelor of Engineering in a relevant subject area
• Chartered Engineer, PE, and/or CRMP desirable but not required

Essential Experience and Job Requirements:

• 10 years or more experience in Reliability, Maintenance, or Operations roles in a refining or production environment.
• Familiar with the application of reliability tools, e.g., Vulnerability Studies, RCM, FMEA, RCA, statistical analysis, etc.
• Experienced in facilitating and leading investigations using industry-recognized methods.
• Familiar with modern online and offline equipment surveillance practices and health monitoring techniques.
• Experienced in optimizing equipment maintenance strategies based on risk.
• Knowledge and experience relevant to refining equipment or production equipment.
• Excellent communication skills with experience in facilitation of workshops at a refinery or production environment.
• Ability to influence from any role to all levels of the business.
• Good capabilities to manage conflicts and reach agreements.
• Excellent team working with colleagues from different backgrounds and cultures.
• Excellent skills in data analysis and a natural curiosity and ability to challenge the norm.

Desirable criteria:Ideally the candidate is an experienced reliability professional in a production, refining, or chemical facility. Experience in defect elimination and delivery of significant reliability improvement would a be helpful. Proactive, self-starting and experiencein Agile methodology, and with a growth mindset would be of benefit.Why Join our teamAt 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 crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly. DiversityStatement: At bp, we provide an excellent environment and benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care packageand many others!Diversity sits at the heart of our company and as an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our mission by ensuring that our place can be anyones place. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender and gender identity,sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application and interview process, to perform essential job functions,and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.Travel Requirement Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role Relocation Assistance: Relocation may be negotiable for this role Remote Type: This position is a hybrid of office/remote working