Job Description

Entity:

Technology

Job Family Group:

Engineering Group

At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee 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.

This role is open for Bangalore location

Job Profile Summary

This job description sets out the responsibilities of the Engineering & Maintenance Manager. The successful candidate will be accountable for the engineering integrity of the business’s research and development laboratory and pilot plant equipment, associated infrastructure, and supporting systems based at Bengaluru. The role carries key accountability for compliance with applicable legislative, company, and site requirements. The post holder will act as the custodian of core engineering systems, processes, and procedures for the business, setting standards, implementing policy, and providing assurance across these areas.

The role will support the day-to-day engineering strategy, modifications, and reliability improvements for all R&D assets, from pilot plants through to laboratory-scale equipment at the Bengaluru site. The post holder will also support the development and delivery of capital projects as required and provide engineering discipline leadership to ensure compliance with mechanical engineering standards across the Bengaluru site.

This is a hybrid role, combining leadership of a multi-disciplinary engineering team with an operational focus on safe, reliable, and compliant delivery.

Key Accountabilities

Job Advert

Downstream Research and Development is where bp’s physical research and development takes place. It covers the science behind bp’s products, processes, and technologies, supporting innovation across the full lifecycle from research and product development through to demonstration, scale-up, commercialisation, and in-market technical support.

This is an opportunity to join a business that works closely with many of bp’s internal businesses and external partners, supporting today’s operational priorities while helping to deliver future technologies.

This role leads the assurance of mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation engineering within an R&D environment, providing oversight and verification of engineering delivery.

The post holder will also provide technical query support to the Bengaluru operating teams.

Success in this role means strengthening inherently safer design, supporting safe systems of work, and meeting the engineering challenges of a research, development, and technology-led business.

What you will be responsible for:

• Lead the safe and effective delivery of engineering and maintenance activities for bp’s research equipment and infrastructure, ensuring health, safety, legislative, commercial, and business requirements are met and maintained at the Bengaluru site.
• Act as the Accountable Engineering and Maintenance Person for the multi-disciplinary site engineering team, ensuring compliance and delivery in line with the Group Operating Standard and bp engineering practices, including the development of local practices where required.
• Support bp’s R&D operations team to minimise downtime and optimise the availability of laboratory and pilot plant assets.

• Provide guidance and support for major engineering and maintenance events at the bp R&D Bengaluru site, including outages, pilot plant shutdowns, and planned or unplanned events. Providing leadership for incidents throughout their lifecycle.
• Ensure competent discipline experts are available to support the technical requirements of the site-based R&D team, drawing on local engineering resources or corporate engineering support as required.
• Review and monitor the planned preventative maintenance programme, identifying and implementing improvements and cost efficiencies.
• Optimise spare parts holdings, with a focus on asset life, obsolescence, strategic spares, and safe and secure storage.
• Manage the Bengaluru site asset register and clearly identify safety-critical equipment.
• Ensure maintenance and engineering goods and services are competitively tendered and delivered in a cost-effective manner.
• Lead design review and assurance for site-based experimental equipment and pilot plants, including externally procured small- to medium-scale laboratory research equipment.
• Deliver the Engineering and Maintenance Manager role positively and professionally, completing required self-development and driving compliance and assurance programmes to confirm that systems and equipment are designed to bp standards and technical practices.
• Lead Management of Change activities and participate in Process Safety Reviews, HAZOPs, and HAZIDs for operational R&D equipment, identifying and maintaining prevention and mitigation barriers. Provide subject matter expertise, assurance, and challenge within local risk processes.
• Select system components to ensure material and chemical compatibility with unit operating conditions and site operational requirements.
• Provide assurance of pressure vessel design, inspection, testing regimes, code compliance, and analysis.
• Provide risk-based assurance for safety-critical equipment, supporting site teams in the development and management of planned preventative maintenance. Ensure mechanical and pressure systems are maintained for continued safe, efficient, and reliable operation.
• Provide assurance of third-party design proposals.
• Provide assurance of the technical integrity of mechanical systems. Create and participate in the review of Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams and Process Flow Diagrams.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in engineering or a related mechanical engineering discipline.
• 10+ years’ experience in the operation and maintenance of mechanical systems, including demonstrated experience in a research and development environment.
• Knowledge and experience of laboratory-scale equipment and gas systems.
• Good working knowledge of relevant industry standards, such as ASME Section VIII, ASME B31.4, API 600, API 6D, UK HSE requirements, US BSEE and EPA requirements, and equivalent Indian standards.
• Strong leadership skills, ability to influence and drive decisions.
• Fluent written and spoken English language.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to address technical matters clearly and confidently, both verbally and in writing, across Projects and Operations and at all levels of the company.
• Able to demonstrate pragmatism when balancing technical decisions with operational needs, delivering safe and competitive solutions.

Desirable criteria and qualifications

• Professional Engineer and/or Chartered Engineer status
• 5+ years’ experience of research and development-scale projects.
• Working knowledge of relevant ASME, ISO, API, and related Indian standards.
• Experience with Root Cause Failure Analysis investigations.
• Experience with HAZOPs, HAZIDs, Process Safety Reviews, and risk assessments.
• Experience working across cultures and engaging with a wide range of customers and suppliers.

About bp

Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner!

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

Additional Information

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Even though the job is advertised as full time, please contact the hiring manager or the recruiter as flexible working arrangements may be considered.

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.

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, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and many others benefits.

Travel Requirement

Some travel may be required with this role, this is negotiable

Relocation Assistance:

This role is eligible for relocation within country

Remote Type:

This position is not available for remote working

Skills:

Engineer equipment specifications, Engineering Research, Equipment Engineering, Equipment Maintenance, Equipment Management, Lab Equipment Maintenance, Lab Maintenance, Maintenance Engineering, Pilot Plants, Safety critical equipment

Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics like race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us

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