Wednesday, 30 November 2016

British Petroleum Latest Hot Job Openings



BIL Instrument & Control Technical Authority


Role synopsis

The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline was built to address the main export solutions for Azerbaijan. The pipeline crosses the territories of three countries – Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, starting from the Sangachal Terminal at the Caspian Sea in Baku, Azerbaijan and finishing at the Ceyhan Terminal on the Turkish coast of the Mediterranean in Turkey. The length of BTC is 1,768 km, and its diameter varies from 34 to 46 inches.

The BTC Pipeline enters Turkey in Ardahan at the Georgian border and runs for 1076 km until Adana in the Mediterranean coast of Turkey where the crude oil is exported from the Ceyhan Marine Terminal. Along its route in Turkey there are 4 pumps stations and 2 intermediate pigging stations. The pipeline started operations in June 2006.

The Turkish section of the BTC Pipeline was built by the Turkish national pipeline company, BOTAS, on a lump sum, turn-key (“LSTK”) basis and is operated by a subsidiary, BOTAS International Limited (BIL) which was formed for this sole purpose. This arrangement is imbedded in the Intergovernmental Agreements (“IGA”) and Host Government Agreements (“HGA”) that underpinned the BTC Project.
BOTAS International Limited (“BIL”) is the Designated Operator of the Turkish section of the BTC Pipeline as documented in the Agreement for the Operations of Facilities in the Republic of Turkey (“Operating Agreement”) between the BTC Pipeline Company (BP as the biggest shareholder), as MEP Participant, and BIL, as Designated Operator.


requirements:
  • Demonstrates a personal commitment to HSSE and demonstrates safety leadership behaviours
  • Professional development with at least 10 years of relevant engineering work experience
  • Full knowledge of applicable policies and procedures
  • Proven knowledge of and participation within relevant technical networks inside and outside the company.
  • Proven experience in leading and facilitating technical discussion
  • Demonstrates sound engineering judgment
  • Demonstrate competent work performance
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Must be a self starter and capable of working as a secondee within a partner organization
  • Must be able to display the level of responsibility, accountability and maturity for this position

Revenue Analyst- united states

Role synopsis:

This Revenue Analyst role is responsible for supporting owner relations in matters involving production revenue accounting. The primary responsibility of the role will be to respond to owner inquiry involving a diverse range of production revenue topics and issue explanations/notifications of revenue overpayments to property owners.

job requirements:

  • 1+ year of relevant experience
  • Prefer prior Production Revenue Accounting or Division of Interest oil & gas experience.
  • In addition, the candidate should demonstrate the following skills:
  • - Self-starter with a bias for action oriented problem solving
  • - Ability to convey results with confidence and credibility
  • - Ability to manage multiple/conflicting priorities and deliver under pressure
  • - Ability to coach, challenge, and influence other team members and peers
  • - Flexibility and commitment to delivery is essential
  • - Looks for innovative ways to do things better, faster, and more efficiently
  • - Strong ability to communicate effectively in formal written correspondence.
  • - Strong analytical and communication skills

Data Analyst - united states


Role synopsis


The Data Analyst II is responsible for developing data-driven operational tools, and supporting data-systems, to improve performance within the business unit. Successful candidates must be able to collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of engineers and analysts on a wide range of problems, including, but not limited to; understanding the operational process, developing paths for data gathering (when required), and using statistical methods to optimize performance.

job requirements:

  • 2+ years of relevant work experience, including experience with database querying and statistical data analysis such as linear models and multivariate analysis
  • Proven proficiency in at least one object-oriented programming language
  • Proven proficiency in basic SQL to include joining, grouping, and table creation
  • Demonstrated ability to apply statistical or data mining techniques to solve real problems
  • Demonstrated ability to constantly learn outside of a classroom environment, and successfully apply learnings
  • Demonstrated self-motivator

Executive Support Assistant


Role synopsis:

The Executive Support Assistant (ESA) will provide assistance and support to the executive leadership team and the staff supporting that team. ESA will report directly to the Chief of Staff (COS). The ESA is required to liaise frequently with the other administrative staff throughout the organization. The ESA will have the ability to work independently on projects, from conception to completion and must be able to work under pressure at all times to handle a wide variety of activities and confidential matters with discretion. The ideal candidate will have the ability to exercise good judgement in a variety of situations with strong written and verbal communication, administrative and organizational skills and the ability to maintain a realistic balance among multiple priorities and direction from several people.

job requirements:

  • 0-3+ years of experience supporting executives preferred, or Oil & Gas industry experience
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel and Power Point), Surface Pro, Adobe Acrobat, iphone, icloud application, etc.
  • Experience with customer relationship management (CRM) systems would be a plus


Engineering Services Manager

Role synopsis:

The AGT Offshore Region is based in Baku, Azerbaijan which includes a substantial operating area with upcoming growth and a healthy potential project portfolio into the foreseeable future. Current operations include Seven Offshore facilities delivering approximately 650 mbod of oil and 1.2 bcfd gas to a shore based terminal and through a pipeline delivery system into Eastern Europe from two world class reservoirs. Additionally, the Offshore facilities include enhanced recovery through injection support of 700 mbwd and 1 bcfd.
The AGT Offshore Engineering Services Manager is a blueprint compliant role consisting of 130 BP staff with the following accountabilities:
  • Leads engineering in the Region and is accountable for Engineering capability and delivery in the Region
  • Sets and implements engineering standards and F4S in the Region.
  • Delivers on strategies and implementation plans in the Region for:
  • - Discipline Engineering
  • - Project Management on Cat C Projects and Modifications
  • - Plant Integrity Planning, Inspection Execution
  • - Information Management and Document Control
  • - Quality Management

job requirements:

-Broad managerial experience in Operations, with specific expertise and experience in some or all of Projects and Engineering, TAR and Integrity Management (corrosion management, inspection, chemicals management).
-Broad experience of large hydrocarbon Industrial plant, including pipeline systems.
-Strong communication and presentation skills.
-Good commercial awareness and strong personal HSSE commitment.
-Self-motivation and high initiative.
-Experience building technical and operational capability.
-Azerbaijani citizenship is required


Reliability Engineer

Role synopsis

AGT Reliability Team invites to apply to for Reliability Engineer role within Offshore R&M, Reliability Team. This individual will actively contribute to maximizing production uptime
- Eliminate defects to prevent recurrence of equipment failures through implementation of the Global Reliability program and reviewing the quality of outputs
- Implement the global Condition Monitoring strategy
- Share best practice and learnings across the Reliability Discipline
- Build capability in asset/hub and functional organizations to proactively eliminate defects, through coaching and mentoring
- Recommend corrective or improvement actions for asset/hub and functions to implement
- Agree Top 10 Deferral and Vulnerability areas with area and functional teams
- Offshore trips will be required.

job requirements

  • 7-9 years industry/technical experience in Oil & Gas industry
  • Good verbal and written communications skills
  • Strong planning and prioritizing abilities
  • Ability to work in multicultural environment and be a good team player
  • Azerbaijani citizenship is required

Field Optimization Engineer (Process Engineer)


Role synopsis

The Field Optimization Engineer (FOE), based in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, is responsible for daily field-wide optimization and also the estimation, evaluation, and tracking of production impacts. The FOE is influential in the scheduling of maintenance activities that affect field wide production. Additionally, they play a role in the identification of and production benefit calculations for facility debottlenecking opportunities. The position provides a key coordination role between Resource Management teams in Anchorage, North Slope-based Operations teams, and Alyeska Operations concerning major maintenance-scheduling issues and facility debottlenecking activities. The FOE is the owner of the Production Impact Maintenance Plan.
The core objective of this position is to deliver expert optimization for the highly-complex production and injection systems at Greater Prudhoe Bay (GPB).

job requirements:

  • 10+ years relevant oil industry experience – surface and/or subsurface
  • Minimum of 5 years Upstream experience with Prudhoe Bay location highly preferred
  • Thorough understanding of Prudhoe Bay facility integration
  • Ability to adapt interpersonal communication styles to meet the needs of a broad range of contacts and employees
  • Ability to manage diverse interfaces
  • A broad range of technical and commercial skills is demanded by the position
  • Drive to deliver results and actively seek out & address production enhancement opportunities
  • Keen business awareness and perception
  • Excellent organizational, planning and prioritizing abilities
  • Team player and excellent interpersonal skills
  • Ability to obtain consensus on a common direction in selecting and recommending optimization options
  • High level of oral and written communication skills

Activity Planning Functional Lead


Role synopsis

  • For one or more functional disciplines, generate a high quality, deliverable 8Q and 12-week functional schedule
  • Support integration of functional schedules into area schedules, schedules of other functions, and contractor schedules
  • Progress functional pre- and post-execution activities in Primavera
  • Optimise functional schedule to minimise risk and maximise value
  • For all significant plan/schedule changes, apply the Managed Change Process defined as part of the region’s Activity Planning practices
  • Recommend on schedule deliverability and approval
  • Agree when to execute CAP activities to deliver Functional 8Q and 12-week Schedules within functional constraints
  • Recommend which activities to execute when the activity set exceeds functional constraints
  • Recommend waiver submission and approval • Build and maintain functional scheduling capability
  • Recommend development of AP Functional Schedulers and Activity SPAs

job requirements:

  • Multiple years experience in Upstream Oil and Gas Industry
  • Planning & Scheduling
    • Significant understanding and experience with planning and scheduling concepts.
    • Understanding and experience in schedule integration across multiple groups and multiple time horizons. Technical
    • Working knowledge of planning and scheduling tools.
    • Working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
  • Management and Interpersonal
    • Strong organization, negotiation and influencing skills
    • Ability to communicate effectively at multiple levels and build sustainable beneficial relationships
    • Experience in leading or coordinating small teams.
    • Personal understanding and commitment to HSSE.
    • Demonstrated success working in high performance environments.
    • Bias for action; takes action before being asked or forced by events; anticipates future situations and plans ahead to meet challenges.
    • Proven ability to plan and schedule within constraints and recognize/ resolve conflicts.


Maintenance Tech - Mechanical


Role synopsis

The Mechanical Technician is responsible for performing safe delivery of maintenance work on facility. The Mechanical Technician is a member of a multi-discipline team, maintaining the process and utilities systems in a safe and efficient manner.

The main purpose of this position is to ensure availability of mechanical equipment (generators, diesel engines, compressors, turbines, pumps, quarters support equipment, sewage treatment systems, hypochlorite, drain and bilge systems, HVAC and chillers, hull hydraulics, chain jack and mooring systems, ventilation systems and survival craft). The Mechanical Technician shall have the ability to troubleshoot equipment efficiently, determine the root cause of the problem, and efficiently execute the proper repair that will deliver safe and reliable operation of the equipment.

The Mechanical Technician reports directly to the Maintenance Team Lead.

job requirements:

  • 5+ years of maintenance experience as a mechanic/millwright in the Oil & Gas Industry
  • A working knowledge of mechanical equipment (generators, diesel engines, compressors, turbines, pumps, quarters support equipment, sewage treatment systems, hypochlorite, drain and bilge systems, HVAC and chillers, hull hydraulics, chain jack and mooring systems, ventilation systems and survival craft)
  • The willingness and ability to work in small/confined places, as well as work on high platforms, walk on high elevation grating and walk up and down steps
  • The willingness and ability to relocate or commute, at your own expense, to Houma, Louisiana on a rotational 14 days on/off schedule in order to fulfill the responsibilities of this position
  • The willingness and ability to ride in a helicopter or boat over Gulf of Mexico waters for extended periods and be transferred to/from a boat via personnel basket swung by a crane with or without reasonable accommodations
  • The willingness and ability to successfully complete a fitness for duty assessment
  • The willingness and ability to serve as a member of an emergency response team
  • The willingness and ability to work 12-hour shifts offshore on a fixed or floating oil and gas production platform in the Gulf of Mexico
  • Must possess a TWIC Card (Transportation Workers Identity Credential)
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook)


Financial Controller – Upstream Joint Ventures (JV)


Role synopsis

The Controller is accountable for the delivery of all Accounting, Financial Reporting and Control (ARC), including Accounting Policy for the relevant Upstream segment entities, support to business development work stream and Upstream functional activities (i.e. Reservoir Development and Exploration). The Controller reports directly to the Region’s Head of Control in Moscow.

The key aim is to ensure that we deliver finance activities that fully comply with all internal and external reporting requirements, create and protect value for BP, and allow us to operate in a simple, integrated and standardized way in order to ensure we produce a single set of trusted financial numbers and analysis.

job requirements

  • At least 8 years accounting, reporting and control experience preferably gained in a large oil and gas company and/ or Big 4 Audit firm.
  • Deep technical accounting policy knowledge and understanding of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and Sarbanes Oxley related Internal Controls over Financial Reporting, as evidenced by having previously performed the role of a Financial Controller, or by having worked in Big4 Audit firm.
  • Previous experience of working in an Upstream environment.
  • Excellent inter personal skills and ability to establish first class relationships across all aspects and levels of the business.
  • Fluent Russian and English language skills.


AGT Materials Management Operations Adviser


Role synopsis

This role will provide operational advice and coaching to the existing Materials Management and Warehousing team in support of materials storage, handling and management improvement. The role covers all materials within company custody and control at its warehouses and yards. Its primary purpose is to ensure the safe, reliable, compliant and efficient provision of materials management services to the business. It will include providing advice and coaching to improve the services provided by company-approved materials management service providers.

This is fixed-term role for a period of 1year with the possibility of extension.

job requirements

  • Experience in Materials Management and Warehousing or Logistics.
  • Knowledge of Warehousing activities and other fundamental Logistics industry operational activities.
  • Skilled at managing complex activities in multi-stakeholder, multi-discipline, multi-cultural environments, with regional and country-specific issues and challenges.
  • Demonstrated coaching and facilitation skills
  • 20+ years of experience in relevant Supply Chain Management areas
  • Experience in people/team management.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence and collaborate with individuals across multiple disciplines, cultures and geographies, across organizational boundaries and levels within BP and with suppliers
  • Understanding of the safety risks associated with Warehousing and Logistics and risk mitigation activities.
  • Working knowledge of systems such as Backbone SAP and software tools such as Excel, Access, etc
  • Azerbaijani citizenship is required

JV Commercial Manager


Role synopsis

JV Commercial Manager role is the part of the BP-Russia Finance Team. The key focus of the role is to create & protect BP value through consistent and appropriate application of:

• Stakeholder Management: targeted interface with partners on assets

• Agreement Management: comply with obligations & secure new agreements to protect & enhance value

• Investment Governance: robust value based decisions

• Commercial Optimisation and Risk evaluation

JV Commercial Manager role reports to Head of Finance (BP-Russia).

job requirements

This is a very demanding role as it requires deep practical understanding of commercial issues and sources of value for E&P projects in Russia, as well as sound communication and interpersonal skills to be able to identify and pursue value for BP effectively within multifunctional team and with JV Management and Partners.

Experience, Skills and Abilities requirements:
  • At least 8 years of working experience in upstream sector of Russian and international oil & gas majors. International work experience in the oil & gas sector is a big advantage.
  • Excellent Analytical skills, including master-level in working with the complex Excel workbooks and financial tools.
  • Deep understanding of financial concepts and working knowledge of accounting practices.
  • Excellent interpersonal communication skills.
  • Respect for other people’s cultures and perspectives.