Process Engineer - (Refinery) - TSI

Entity:

Production & Operations

Job Family Group:

Engineering Group

Job Description:

About bp

bp Technical Solutions India (TSI) center in Pune, strives to build on bp’s existing engineering and technical strengths to deliver high quality services to its hydrocarbons and new energy businesses worldwide. TSI brings together diverse engineering capability to provide technical services across a range of areas including engineering, maintenance, optimization, data processes, projects and subsurface, to deliver safe, affordable and lower emission energy, while continuously innovating how we work.

At bp, we’re reimagining energy for people and our planet. We’re leading the way in reducing carbon emissions and developing more balanced methods for solving the energy challenge. We’re a team with multi-layered strengths of engineers, scientists, traders and business professionals determined to find answers to problems.

And we know we can’t do it alone. We’re looking for people who share our passion for reinvention, to bring fresh opinions, ambition, and to challenge our thinking in our goal to achieve net zero!

Let me tell you about the role

The Process Engineer is accountable for assuring unit performance and availability from cycle to cycle. They do this by acting as the primary interface with Operations to support routine, day-to-day asset operations activities such as troubleshooting, providing technical input for operating procedures, and supporting basic process control issues. Process Engineers regularly monitor the units for mass balance closure, catalyst performance, yields, and operation within chemical and physical integrity limits. They deliver operational technical support for process improvements, turnaround activities, performance tests, technical knowledge management, and troubleshooting exercises.

This, this role may include working shift/evening/weekend schedules on occasion.

Additionally, the Process Engineer will have a key role in various special assignments such as project commissioning, complex unit modeling, and catalyst selection.

What you will deliver

Process Safety Management:

• Participate by providing technical input to process related MOC (Management of Change) reviews

• Provide updates for heat and material balances for unit HAZOP (Hazard and Operability) revalidations

• Technical representation in unit HAZOP revalidation and IPL (Independent Protection Layer) meetings

• Support incident investigation activities and action item closure

• Technical support for alarm rationalization

• Proactively identify process and personal safety risks on site and share learnings

• Review P&ID changes for completeness and accuracy

Unit Operations Support:

• Assist Operations in troubleshooting process deviations. When trade-offs are identified the Process Engineer works with the Optimization Engineer to achieve the best economic operating compromise.

• Work with Operations to establish and maintain operating procedures for the safe startup, shutdown and routine operation of the unit.

• Issue guidance and support Operations to commercially optimize units within safe operating limits

• Develop and oversee test runs

• Support environmentally compliant operation and work to achieve goal of no damage to the environment

• Work with Operations and Reliability Engineers to achieve mechanical availability goals

• Support unit project commissioning and project design basis acceptance activities

• Solicit assistance of Senior Engineer or Process Safety Engineer on behalf of Operations or him/herself

Unit and System Monitoring:

• Maintain comprehensive unit health monitoring and ensure the quality and completeness of process data including regular mass balances.

• Provide robust technical recommendations regarding equipment unit constraints and catalyst life cycle management via long term unit health and catalyst performance monitoring tools

• Proactively identify availability concerns and work solutions to help achieve availability targets

• Support GRIP (Global Reliability Improvement Program) activities as appropriate; including support for unit vulnerability studies, production scorecard updates, and other elements

• Monitor energy use and support the energy efficiency improvements plan (with Energy Engineer) for the unit

• Review unit health on a regular basis with BP Solutions and applicable 3rd parties such as catalyst and chemical vendors.

Unit and System Optimization:

• Provide input to optimization engineers for commercial planning tools and identify opportunities to remove constraints

• Implement and optimize refinery volume plan to unit constraints by translating campaign plan drives into actionable operating targets and goals for the operations team

• Identify and support opportunities to grow commercial capability

Turnaround Support:

• Generate the process scope for turnaround along with appropriate justification based on unit performance

• Participate in catalyst selection and, as necessary, equipment selection for process related items

Grow Capability:

• Deliver personal capability – accountable for growing professionally, mentoring those less experienced, and exploring opportunities that establish the basis for long term career planning

• Deliver technical learning – accountable for ensuring technical knowledge is captured, maintained, easily retrievable, and shared appropriately in unit technical manuals

• Network with site manufacturing technical representatives, commercial, projects organizations, technology networks, and other BP sites sharing and bringing applied information on short-term tactical and strategic initiatives, programs, and projects

• Onboarding new engineers of varying skill levels, including unit training for qualifications

What you will need to be successful

Must have educational qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical engineering or related degree/discipline

Must have certifications:

• NA

Minimum years of relevant experience:

• 5+years

Total years of experience:

• 10 Years

Must have experiences/skills (To be hired with):

• A minimum of 8 years of refining experience in technical, engineering, operations, maintenance

• Direct experience with desktop computer applications (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint)

Good to have experiences/skills (Can be trained for – learning/on-the-job):

• Experience in direct process engineering support for a process unit

• Working knowledge of unit operations

• Knowledge of safety systems (SIS-Safety Instrumented Systems, PSV-Process Safety Valves, etc.)

• Experience building and maintaining process models and writing code for health monitoring applications

• Working knowledge of process equipment

• Strong desire to develop capabilities working with process engineering tools and process modeling software (Hysys, Petro-sim, etc.)

• Hydraulic modelling tools (Fathom or equivalent)

• Heat exchanger modelling (HTRI or equivalent)

Shift support

2pm-11pm IST

% travel requirements

Preferred to have a valid US visa

Why Join our team?

At bp, 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. Diversity Statement: At bp, we provide an excellent environment and 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!

Diversity sits at the heart of our company and as an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our mission by ensuring that our place can be anyone's place. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender and gender identity, 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 and interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

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 a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Application of hierarchy of control, Application of hierarchy of control, Asset health monitoring, Commercial Acumen, Defect Elimination, Design case for safety, Design development and delivery, Design performance standards, Economic evaluation methodology, Emergency process isolation and shutdown systems, Environment and Social Impact Assessment, Facility layout, Fluid characterisation, Hazardous area classification, Hydraulics, Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA), Lean Practices, Major accident risk, Operational performance standards, Personal Safety, Plant Layout, Process and process safety design philosophies, Process control and automation, Process performance monitoring, Process safety assurance {+ 5 more}

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