Senior Process Engineer

About Fuels & Low Carbon Technology:

What You Will Deliver

• Delivery of safe and compliant operations, contributing to the development of an HSSE culture aligned with the goals of Applied Sciences and Technology in particular, and bp in general.
• Lead work, with business and technology colleagues, to identify needs and opportunities involving process engineering, and deliver results and insights to meet these needs.
• Take the technical lead in early technology appraisal studies and/or due diligence studies, including techno-economic assessments.
• Design and contribute to the successful execution of process development and modelling work, and the communication of results, to meet the needs of defined programmes, conceptual designs, or active projects, including with industrial partners or third parties.
• Develop others by mentoring junior engineers, and proactively sharing expertise and interests with others.
  

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• Bachelors or higher degree in Chemical Engineering with a strong grasp of underlying fundamentals of physics, reaction engineering, kinetics, and various process technologies. Mechanical Engineering to an equivalent qualification level with the right experience may also be considered.
• 8+ years of demonstrated professional experience
• A background which mixes deep understanding of engineering fundamentals with practical, large scale experience in a chemical or refining manufacturing environment.
• A personal understanding of new areas of process technology based on bp relationships, internal documents and the academic literature.
• Setting the scope of research programmes and leading studies to understand technical challenges faced by bp businesses, particularly the techno-economic assessment of new conversion technologies.
• Designing detailed experimental plans, participating in the operation of experimental units, and analyzing the results.
• Developing conceptual and mathematical models and applying them to deliver insight into research programmes.
• Undertaking technical due diligence studies in support of venturing opportunities
• Conceptual design flow sheeting and process simulation - ASPEN+, PetroSIM or similar
  

Direct Experience In At Least One Of The Following

• Technology scale-up and commercial deployment of hydrogen production via electrolysis
• Process technology support for "1st generation" sugar fermentation ethanol commercial processes, in particular the sugar factory processes
• Carbon capture technologies; pre-combustion, post-combustion and direct air capture (DAC)
• Process technology / R&D programs enabling its first-of-a-kind deployment at commercial scale
  

Good To Have Experiences/skills

• Prior experience working in the renewable / low carbon fuels space
• Practical experience operating, troubleshooting, and designing of larger unit operations; examples could include fixed bed reactors, syngas production, fermentation, carbon-capture, compression, fired operations
• Pilot and demonstration scale operations management or direct experience
• Prior demonstrated experience in scaling / commercializing new process technologies.
  

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