Senior Materials & Welding Engineer - TSI

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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.

Working with the Materials & Welding Engineering Manager, this role is an opportunity to join bp’s Engineering team within Innovation and Engineering (I&E), providing technical support to the wider bp businesses. The m&w engineer is accountable for providing specialist materials, and welding engineering expertise focused on our global business and bp’s NetZero aims.

The successful individual will work closely with other workstream teams, sub-functions and contractors to systematically deliver materials and welding solutions both at the design and build stages, and in operations. The role involves applying engineering judgement to assist in setting and implementing engineering technical practices while ensuring integrated, pragmatic solutions focused on risk management, operating efficiency, defect elimination and standardization are implemented.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Providing domain expertise in the fields of materials and welding to Oil and Gas Exploration and Production, Refinery and Low Carbon businesses, including working with related engineering, project, and operations disciplines, e.g., quality, process and process safety, mechanical, electrical, pipelines, etc.

• Provide technical expertise to produce I&E materials and welding engineering deliverables, which may include:

• identifying credible materials related threats and damage mechanisms and resolving these using appropriate strategies.

• material selection, materials manufacture and fabrication qualification and failure analysis

• assuring quality and compliance against key performance indicators and raising issues of engineering integrity as appropriate.

• Ensure the best practices in materials selection, welding and fabrication is gathered through digital applications, Engineering Technical Practices, and industry standards.

• Working with the contractor, lead the development of project design philosophies that impact materials and welding management. Deliver the scope definition, materials selection documents, materials selection diagrams, acceptance of materials manufacture and fabrication practices/procedures.

• Support major project concept development studies to identify materials and fabrication risks and selection implications.

• Ensuring safe and cost-efficient design and integrity management throughout asset life.

• Identifying, quantifying, and communicating risks to relevant stakeholders to ensure they are understood, controlled, and continuously reduced across the business.

• Actively contributing to the materials, corrosion, and inspection engineering community of practice to share knowledge and takeaways.

• Adhering to bp’s code of conduct, ethics and compliance rules, and values & behaviours.

Essential experience

• Degree or equivalent experience in Welding Engineering, Materials Engineering/Science, Metallurgy, or similar.

• Experience in the management of materials and welding engineering activity through design, installation, and operation.

• Materials and Welding engineering experience, including:

• Expertise in developing Material Selection Reports including Materials Selection Diagrams.

• A technical understanding of industry codes and standards as applied to refinery and exploration & production equipment materials.

• Track record with materials selection, welding procedure development, fabrication, NDE, and application of industry codes and standards

• Experience of materials and welding related laboratory testing and their use supporting both projects and refinery operations.

• Ability to communicate both verbally and in writing in a clear and succinct manner.

• Ability to use strong technical skills to think strategically and provide powerful insights.

Desirable experience

• Broad Materials and Welding experience in hydrogen storage/transportation applications

• Broad Materials and Welding experience in renewable energy

• Awareness of non-metallic materials selection, including elastomers

• Awareness of basic and advanced inspection techniques

• Appropriate professional accreditation (e.g., Chartered Engineer, P.E. status, or chartered status in closely aligned workstream).

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.

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