Entity:

Technology

Job Family Group:

HSSE Group

Job Description:

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.

The EIH Assessor provides Environmental and Industrial Hygiene expertise to Fuel & Low Carbon Technology, Oil & Gas Technology and Wells Fluid teams. The role holder ensures that workplace health hazards are anticipated, recognised, evaluated, and controlled to protect employees, contractors, and the community. Responsibilities directly support bp’s operating management system (OMS) 3.4 requirements for Health & Industrial Hygiene.

This is where bp’s physical research and development work happens; we cover the science behind everything bp does. We lead scientific innovation right through the lifecycle - from research, product development, demonstration, technical scale-up, commercialization and support for users in the real world.

This is an opportunity to join a business with an envious position touching and working with many of bp’s internal businesses and external partners in supporting today’s opportunities whilst focussing on delivering the future technologies.

Job purpose and primary objectives:

This role plays a key part in the assurance of industrial hygiene within an R&D business and will provide oversight and verification of the standardised delivery against our OMS.

The role will also provide operational line technical query support to the operating teams across our operating sites, ensuring legislation is maintained, providing assurance to the external legislative bodies.

Key responsibilities:

• Implement IH processes aligned with our OMS
• Identify workplace health hazards (chemical, physical, biological, ergonomic, radiation, psychosocial).
• Assess exposure risks, related to the activities recommending and implementing effective controls.
• Maintain exposure assessment programmes.
• Support development of IH capability across the site.
• Manage Chemical Risk management (CRM) data entry and maintain chemical inventories.
• Deliver materials handling management procedures and risk assessments using the bp CRM tool and Enable On toolkit.
• Act as the super-user for materials handling and risk assessment platforms; provide mentorship and training to site teams.
• Provide IH input into HVAC design, fume containment, LEV systems, respiratory protection (RPE) selection, and laboratory health risk controls
• Coordinate or support monitoring programmes such as:

Chemical exposure sampling. Biological, radiological, thermal (heat stress) and fatigue hazards. Ventilation performance and indoor air quality. Deliver or support EIH/IH training (e.g., H₂S awareness, heat stress, ergonomic hazards). Mentor team members or HSE colleagues as part of capability development. Provide advice to wider bp teams and support new business proposals requiring IH inputs.

Qualifications & Experience:

• University degree in Occupational hygiene, Industrial Health and hygiene or similar.
• 3-5 yrs experience of delivering IH management in an operational environment.
• Solid understanding of industry standards and legislative requirements.
• Knowledge of IH hazard categories (chemical, physical, biological, ergonomic, psychosocial).
• Proficiency in exposure assessment, sampling strategies, and interpretation.
• Understanding of engineering controls, ventilation, PPE/RPE, and lab design.
• Proficient written and spoken English language.
• Good communicator, able to technically address with conviction verbally and written across Projects and Operations on technical matters at all levels of the company.
• Able to demonstrate pragmatism when balancing technical decisions and operational needs (deliver safe & competitive solutions).

Desirable criteria and qualifications:

• Professional body status.
• Experience of R&D scale projects and laboratories.
• Knowledge and experience of laboratory scale equipment and gas systems.

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

Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is eligible for relocation within country

Remote Type:

This position is not available for remote working

Skills:

Industrial Hygiene, Laboratory Design, Occupational Health, Occupational Hygiene, Research and Development

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.

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.