Entity:

Production & Operations:

Job Family Group:

Engineering Group

Job Description:

The Senior Process & Process Safety Engineer provides technical leadership in process engineering, process safety, and risk management to ensure safe, compliant, and reliable operations across the site. The role serve as the domain expert for process operations, design and process safety, delivering technical recommendations, guidance, and assurance activities to support safe operations and regulatory compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the site domain expert for process engineering providing technical expertise, guidance, and day-to- day troubleshooting for process operations, including support to operating envelopes, debottlenecking, process modelling, and optimisation studies.
• Provide process engineering and process safety assurance for site capital projects, ensuring safe design, regulatory compliance, conformance to standards and risk-based decision-making.
• Lead and facilitate Design Reviews and Process Hazard Analyses (PHA): HAZOP, LOPA, HAZID, Bow-Tie, What-If; ensure actions are tracked to closure with risk-based prioritisation.
• Provide assurance and technical governance on Management of Change, Operating Envelope, risk register, pressure relief systems and other safety-critical processes.
• Own and maintain the site’s risk management framework, including oversight of the site risk register and integration with the centralised risk processes.
• Identify, assess, and prioritise risk-reduction and barrier assurance actions; provide process and process safety engineering input into related projects.
• Maintain the Safety Case/MHF documentation, ensuring barriers, Safety Critical Elements (SCEs), and Performance Standards are current and effective.
• Regulatory Interface - act as the primary liaison with the Regulator, ensuring transparent communication and alignment with statutory requirements.
• Lead and participate in process safety incident investigations and support root cause analysis to strengthen site learning and operating discipline.
• Coach and mentor engineers and operations personnel on process engineering principles, hazard evaluation, and risk management.
• Support long-term technical strategy, risk transformation initiatives, and alignment with engineering technical practices. This includes driving continuous improvement in the areas of Process Engineering and Process Safety area.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in operating oil & gas/refining/petrochemical facilities with demonstrable process safety and operations support leadership.
• Proven track record facilitating or leading HAZOP/LOPA and delivering relief/flare system design and validation.
• Hands-on experience with Aspen HYSYS (or equivalent), relief sizing tools, LOPA tools (e.g., PHA-Pro/PHAWorks), Bow Tie, and SIS verification.
• Strong familiarity with MHF regulatory frameworks, Safety Case development, and barrier management.
• Experience with commissioning/start-up, and brownfield/greenfield modifications under robust MOC.
• Experience collaborating with regulators and independent verifiers.
• Strong communication and technical writing skills

At bp, we provide the following environment and benefits to you:

• A company culture where we respect our diverse and unified teams, where we are proud of our achievements and where fun and the attitude of giving back to our environment are highly valued
• Possibility to join our social communities and networks
• Learning opportunities and other development opportunities to craft your career path
• Life and health insurance, medical care package
• And many other benefits!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, 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 or interview process, perform crucial job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Don’t hesitate to get in touch with us to request any accommodations!

Travel Requirement

No travel is expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Air and nitrogen systems, Air and nitrogen systems, Block Flow Diagram, Cause and effect charts, Centrifugal compressors, Centrifugal Pumps, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict Management, Corrosion Management, Distillation, Diversity, Electrical drives, Equity and Inclusion, Gas treatment and liquid recovery, Hazardous area classification, Heat and Material Balance, Heat Exchangers, Heat Transfer, Identification of critical equipment, Influencing, Instrument and protective systems, Mentoring, Oil Treatment, Operations and maintenance {+ 7 more}

Legal Disclaimer:

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, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, 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.

If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.