Key responsibilities include:

• Investigating plant performance issues (safety, quality, environmental impact, capacity, reliability, operability) and proposing/implementing technically sound solutions.
• Serving as process expert and unit representative for design, construction, and implementation of investment projects; interfacing across disciplines (e.g., PCT, project engineering, environmental/utility services, process development).
• Creating, maintaining, and developing standards for unit operating documentation (SOPs, process descriptions, material/energy balances, P&IDs, operating data collection/retrieval).
• Providing leadership to multi-disciplinary optimization and reliability teams; helping set continuous improvement goals, prioritizing resources, and communicating performance metrics.
• Leading/participating as process expert in HAZOP and other Process Hazard Analyses; supporting timely resolution of identified process safety risks.
• Proposing designs and executing plant trials to enhance plant performance.
• Serving as manufacturing representative on Technical Core Team for assigned processes; maintaining the Process Management File; approving process changes and deviations from operating limits.
• Supporting adherence to procedures, guidelines, design standards, and technologies across the site as a subject matter expert; leading/representing the site on corporate teams.
• Fostering knowledge transfer with other plant engineers; supporting development of self and others through peer coaching and constructive feedback.

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The Senior Process Engineer is accountable for process safety and engineering integrity across the Centre, ensuring compliance with all legislative, company, and site requirements for Fuel & Low Carbon Technology, Oil & Gas Technology and Wells Fluid teams. Acting as steward for key chemical and process engineering systems, the role sets standards, implements policy, and provides authoritative technical assurance to maintain safe, compliant, and reliable operations.

The role provides site-wide technical leadership for the chemical engineering discipline, leading operational process engineering support to industrial and bench-scale laboratories, and delivering expert process engineering consultancy across the lab.

As the focal point for process design, engineering assurance, and technical risk management, the Senior Process Engineer leads modifications, reliability improvements, and engineering governance across R&D, pilot plant, and operational assets. The role ensures all engineering solutions, projects, and operating strategies align with bp Engineering Technical Practices (ETPs), HSSE requirements, and inherently safer design principles.

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:

This role plays a key part in the assurance of chemical engineering principles within an R&D business and will provide oversight and verification of the standardised engineering delivery and detailed engineering solutions.

The role will also provide operational line technical query support to the operating teams across our operating sites.

Success is developing and assuring our inherently safer design, safe systems of work, whilst facing the challenges of a research, development and technology driven business.

Key responsibilities include:

• Act as steward for chemical engineering standards and systems that ensure process technical integrity, including Management of Change, pressure systems, area classification, and P&ID standards.
• Ensure site process engineering practices and procedures are established, maintained, and compliant with legislative requirements and bp Engineering Technical Practices (ETPs).
• Lead process engineering deliverables for major projects, technical programmes, and complex modifications.
• Provide authoritative technical assurance and challenge of contractor and third-party designs, ensuring full alignment with bp standards and best practice.
• Validate plant and operating data, future operating scenarios, and key design assumptions used in process design.
• Lead development and implementation of chemical engineering systems and procedures appropriate for a research environment, meeting company and regulatory requirements.
• Act as senior Subject Matter Expert for HAZOP, HAZID, LOPA, and Process Safety Reviews (PSRs).
• Lead high-complexity Management of Change activities, ensuring consistent and effective application of process safety methodologies across teams.
• Ensure safe operating limits, relief and protection systems, environmental controls, and inherently safer design principles are embedded in designs.
• Provide technical challenge and assurance across multi-discipline designs, including mechanical, electrical & instrumentation, and research-scale systems.
• Provide engineering governance and technical oversight supporting Technology and Wells Fluids teams.
• Lead process engineering scopes through concept, pre-FEED, and FEED phases.
• Drive assurance of complex and novel modifications, including electrolysers, CO2 systems, fermentation units, advanced chemistry changes, and modular builds.
• Guide operational teams in defining detailed engineering scopes and ensuring high-quality execution.
• Provide senior oversight of equipment selection, materials compatibility, pressure system integrity, and reliability-critical equipment.
• Support the development and management of risk-based maintenance strategies and safety-critical equipment registers.
• Conduct audits and technical assessments to confirm compliance with approved design methods and assurance practices, ensuring deviations are appropriately authorised.
• Mentor Process Engineers and junior staff, building organisational capability and engineering excellence.
• Support the development and deployment of consistent, structured engineering practices across sites.

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