Mechanical Engineer (Refinery - TAR) - TSI

Engineering Deliverables & Coordination:

• Receive assignments from Lead TAR Engineers and access bp refinery systems for required documentation and specifications.
• Interface with TAR engineers, planners, inspection teams, SMEs, operations, and asset personnel.
• Regularly update the TAR Engineering Deliverable Register (EDR) and communicate status with the Lead TAR Engineer.

Material Specifications & Procurement:

• Develop Engineered Material Specifications, bid packages, and oversee specialty material selection.
• Ensure compliance with refinery specifications, documentation, and the Management of Change (MOC) process.
• Prepare bid packages and collaborate with procurement for vendor selection and budgetary estimates.
• Evaluate vendor bids and make technical recommendations to the local refinery team

Heat Exchanger & Pressure Vessel Engineering:

• Develop and validate HTRI models for heat exchanger design modifications.
• Prepare engineering work packages for planned repairs and alterations of pressure vessels and exchangers.
• Perform FEL engineering for planned repairs, including modifications like machine nubbins, gasket upgrades, and nozzle additions.
• Conduct pressure vessel rerates and necessary calculations to support TAR work.

Piping Engineering & Analysis:

• Identify and clarify specifications for piping, valves, gaskets, bolting, and materials.
• Assist TAR planners in determining equivalent pipe specifications based on P&IDs, heritage specs, and refinery standards.
• Perform pipe stress analysis for complex piping changes or metallurgy upgrades to assess potential impacts.
• Work with TAR planning and bp pipe surveying team (or equivalent) to obtain piping models for analysis.

Flanged Joint Torque & Assurance:

• Utilize refinery-specific torque calculation tools for heat exchangers and specialty piping/equipment.
• Develop critical torque summaries and review with the Lead TAR Engineer or Asset Senior Mechanical Engineer.

Management of Change (MOC) Participation:

• Support MOC processes for engineering changes, including risk reviews and evaluations.
• Ensure compliance while coordinating with local personnel for final implementation.

Education

Must have education requirements:

• Bachelor s degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent discipline

Experience and jobrequirements

Minimum years of relevant experience:

• 5 years in oil and gas / petrochemical / refining / chemical or equivalent

Total years of relevant experience:

• 5-12 Years

Must have experiences/skills (To be hired with)

• Must have refinery engineering experience in a field support role.
• Good experience and understanding of engineering, maintenance and operation of pressure vessels, heat exchangers, valves, piping in refinery
• Proven understanding of governing codes, industry standards (API, ASME, ISO) and local laws
• Basic root cause / failure analysis skills.

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

• Skilled in remote partnership and collaboration
• Accomplished in risk management in operating refineries
• Experience with mechanical equipment and valve selection, design, troubleshooting and repairs
• Experience with piping designs and supports, stress analysis using Caesar, flanged joint designs, integrity assessment and repairs
• Experience with brownfield modifications, equipment skid packages design, front end engineering, scoping, technical evaluation