Design Engineer

Let me tell you about the role

The bp Standards team manage and maintain bp’s suite of internal engineering documents (known as ETP’s). The Delivery Lead plays a key role in the Standards team, coordinating the prioritization, planning and development of these engineering documents that contain bp’s many years of engineering and global operating experience.

The Delivery Lead ensures the right business stakeholders are engaged at the best time during a document update cycle. They also ensure that requirements are written clearly, properly justified, and suitable across global projects, operations and suppliers.

The Delivery Lead is a leadership-through-influence role and involves guiding engineering stakeholders such as subject matter experts, principal engineers, technical teams and editors to align document content, capture and prioritize lessons and resolve differences constructively.

What you will deliver

• Run content workshops to simplify and structure documents (including challenge, framing, and simplification sessions).
• Ensure requirements are clear and verifiable, with strong justification.
• Help technical content owners write consistently, following bp’s governance and rules.
• Coordinate planning across engineering teams to ensure realistic delivery timelines.
• Monitor progress and performance using bp’s preferred digital tools
• Act as the Standards quality gate to ensure clarity, usability, and alignment across users.
• Identify, flag, and support the resolution of cross-discipline issues.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of document delivery and development processes.

What you will need to be successful

• 10+ years’ experience in engineering, project delivery, operations, or business analysis with a focus on supporting technical decision-making.
• Proven ability to coordinate work across multiple disciplines and bring different stakeholders, especially technical experts, project engineering and operating sites.
• Direct experience working with technical standards and specifications including writing or applying requirement documentation.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent experience in engineering, project delivery, or business analysis.
• Fluent written and spoken English with strong command of technical language.

Skills & Capabilities

• Ability to lead conversations and influence decisions without needing formal authority.
• Clear and confident communicator; skilled at running sessions with multiple stakeholders.
• Good practical knowledge of engineering principles and how technical decisions are made.
• Comfortable working with senior technical leaders and challenging ideas in a constructive way.
• Experienced in coordinating work across different teams and engineering disciplines.
• Can take complex information and help teams turn it into clear, practical decisions.

Tools & Working Knowledge

• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Word (structured authoring) and Microsoft Excel (tracking, analysis).

• Experience in digital requirements management tools, e.g. Jama Connect, an advantage.

• Comfortable working with digital requirement writing tools, e.g. QVScribe or similar.

• Familiarity with document control, versioning, or governance workflows is helpful.

Preferred Experience (Nice to Have)

• Experience interfacing with suppliers/Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) Contractors/project teams in engineering delivery.
• Postgraduate qualification in technical writing, systems engineering, or communication.

You will work with:

Global technical experts; including subject matter experts, principal engineers, chief engineers, technical editors, project engineers, and other stakeholders, across multiple engineering disciplines to help shape technical content. Additionally, you will work alongside Engineering leadership to ensure effective prioritization and progress monitoring. Engagement with bp industry standards organization committee members will also be required. You will also collaborate with digital and systems support teams to improve tooling and data visibility where needed.

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.