Principal Reliability Engineer

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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, traders and 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 from International Oil Company to an International Energy Company.  High reliability increases our production, improves profitability, decreases costs, decreases our emissions and improves our efficiency in work management. bp is targeting 96% plant reliability & 85 operational efficiency across the Production organization, and with a renewed focus and organization set up for Reliability, now is a great time to join the team.

The Reliability Engineers (RE) in bp solutions are part of the central reliability discipline squad who serve as the primary point of contact for influencing and implementing reliability strategy across the production portfolio, supporting long term engineering evaluations and supporting the execution of reliability investigations and vulnerability studies on high profile issues with the primary goal of ensuring asset availability and optimizing life cycle costs. 

The RE will also collaborate with the regional reliability teams to gain inputs into the long-term reliability plan and to incorporate key reliability objectives into routine maintenance work.  The RE will work with other parts of bp Solutions to solve asset reliability issues with the Discipline Engineers and Subject Matter Experts (SME’s).

Key Accountabilities:

Asset Reliability

• Leads or supports key activities of the reliability program (facilitation of RCFA (Root Cause Failure Analysis), VAA (Vulnerability Analysis & Assessment) and Equipment class reliability analysis that leads to the optimization of the maintenance build.
• Provides coaching and support to the regionally deployed reliability squads, sharing standard methodology, offering insights, developing reliability engineers and implementing work where required.
• Provides insights on equipment availability perspective and an equipment reliability strategy.  This includes documenting problematic equipment and providing input into the maintenance, operations, and outage/turnaround strategies.
• Responsible for analysing data and providing input and context to operational and maintenance activities.
• Support the overall life cycle cost of the asset to meet business strategies by providing input into the asset strategy for reliability (including TAR, CAPEX, Maintenance routine Expenditure and Major Mechanical) based upon knowledge of the inspection, unit reliability plans, and the PM requirements.
• Identifies reliability/availability improvement type projects and develops initial justification, incentives and business value to support the funding request.
• Conducts region and site visits, engaging with regional reliability teams and operations frontline support teams to share standard process in the field.
• Expected to play a leading 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 engineering subject area and significant maintenance and/or reliability work experience.

Essential Experience and Job Requirements:

• Significant experience in Maintenance & Reliability roles.
• Solid understanding of reliability fundamentals.
• Root Cause Failure Analysis
• Vulnerability Assessments
• Reliability Centered Maintenance
• Risk Based Maintenance
• Modern online and offline equipment surveillance practices
• Maintenance Strategies and optimization of said strategies
• Excellent people skills with experience in facilitation of workshops.
• Strong influencing skills with experience of engaging with Senior Leadership.
• Excellent skills in data analysis, a natural curiosity and ability to challenge the norm.

Desirable criteria:

• Ideally the candidate is an experienced Senior Reliability Engineer, ideally within oil and gas industry. 
• Experience in Defect Elimination and a track record of delivering significant reliability improvement would advantageous. 
• Proactive, self starting and experience in Agile working (scrum, kanbanise, kaizen, lean, 5S) and with a growth mindset would be of benefit.  ?

Why Join our team?

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 crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly. Diversity Statement: 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 package and 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 anyone's 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.

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