Entity:

Production & Operations:

Job Family Group:

Wells Group

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced Drilling Well Site Leader to join our team in Indonesia. This is a safety-critical leadership role responsible for leading offshore operations in the Tangguh field, supporting Senior Well Site Leader, and supporting the onshore Wells team from Jakarta as needed.

In this position, you will help ensure the safe, compliant, and efficient execution of well operations, delivering performance that meets or exceeds established metrics, in line with bp’s practices, procedures, and well programs.

Success in this role requires demonstrating strong, visible, and transparent leadership that consistently reflects bp’s values, supports a high‑performance culture, and promotes the highest standards of safety and integrity.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

• Establish and role model a strong safety, diversity, and leadership culture offshore.

• Ensure site safety and environmental management systems are implemented as designed and fully aligned with bp’s internal policies, standards, and regulatory requirements.

• Provide leadership and oversight for bp’s task level self verification and contractor oversight processes at the wellsite.

• Ensure Well Control and other safety critical procedures are clearly understood and consistently applied by the team.

• Facilitate and support logistics excellence, including quality planning and prioritization of materials, personnel movement, and supply chain operations to and from the wellsite.

• Drive continuous improvement through high quality input into procedural planning and active participation in bp’s learning and improvement processes.

• Ensure operational lessons related to safety, efficiency, and cost are captured and shared effectively.

• Support the coaching and development of Wells local talent in the region.

Experience & Qualifications:

Experience and Technical Competencies:

• Relevant proven experience as a Well Site Leader on jackups, platforms, drill ships, or semi‑submersible rigs.

• Supervisory level Well Control certification from an accredited program such as IADC or IWCF.

• Strengths you'll need: Personal & Process Safety, Team Management, Procedures and Practices, OMS, Risk Assessment, and Risk Management.

• Technical subject‑matter competencies: Life‑of‑Well Design Consideration, Equipment Integrity Assurance, Well Integrity, Well Control, Performance Management, Slickline, Electric Line, Tubular Handling, Cementing, Drill String Handling, Wellhead and Tree Installation, Directional Drilling, and Surveying techniques.

• This role is open to local Indonesian candidates only.

Leadership and Behavioral Traits:

• Safety Leadership: Demonstrates bp’s values and Code of Conduct, consistently championing a strong safety culture.

• Systematic Management: Champions operational discipline.

• Commitment & Engagement: Shows personal ownership in delivering the plan and maintains a clear focus on continuous improvement.

• Leadership Presence: Demonstrates sound judgment in managing operational risk. Ensures expectations and accountabilities for safety compliance and performance are clear, understood, and delivered.

• Team Collaboration: Works effectively with colleagues, enabling others to achieve their full potential.

• Communication Skills: Communicates clearly and professionally with diverse individuals and teams.

• Mentorship: Coaches and supports the development of less‑experienced WSLs offshore and engineering staff onshore.

Key Relationships:

The WSL will work closely with the Senior WSL and the Wells Superintendent and will be expected to cultivate strong working relationships with bp operational and engineering teams, contractors, and well services personnel at the field level.

Additional Key Interfaces Include:

• Onshore wells engineering and operational teams.

• The Remote Operations Center (ROC) and subsurface team.

• Onshore drilling contractor and service providers.

• Logistics team.

• bp productions and project organizations as needed.

These relationships are essential for effective communication and aligned execution, ensuring safe and efficient well operations across all phases of delivery.

Why Join the Team?

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.

We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that the team is strengthened by diversity. The team committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are significant, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, great exposure and would be able to works within a multi-discipline team.

Travel Requirement

Up to 50% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is not available for remote working

Skills:

Artificial Lift, Artificial Lift, Casing and wellhead recovery, Casing Design, Cementing, Coiled Tubing, Common process for wells activities, Completion equipment and accessories, Completion landing string systems, Completions and Interventions Fluids, Completion tubing design, Control of Work, Cost Management, Crisis and emergency response management, Directional Drilling, Drilling, Drilling data acquisition and well monitoring, Drilling Operations, Drillstring component selection, Electric-line, Equipment integrity assurance, Fracturing and stimulation, Intelligent Completions, Managed Pressure Drilling, Management of change {+ 38 more}

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.