Sr. Process Scientist

Let me tell you about the role:

The Refining and Advanced Fuels Technology (RFT) team sits in the Fuels and Low Carbon Technology group within Applied Sciences Technology. The team consists of over 120 people who work closely with the business groups to assure the quality of our fuels along the whole of the Fuels Supply Chain - from our Refineries and 3rd party suppliers to our Customers and Products businesses. The RFT team also develop differentiated fuels products for retail customers and deploy these into global markets. The range of fuel products is evolving as part of the energy transition, with a growing number of bio-based fuel offers. The RFT team run technical programs to understand and mitigate the risk of processing biobased feedstocks in our refinery assets.

You will be part of the global Refining Technology team, providing technical support to while implementing novel bio-feedstock opportunities in our refineries.

• Lead studies, with business and technology colleagues, to deliver optimization and constraint busting solutions through the application of physical science knowledge into our manufacturing assets.
• Take the technical lead in technology programmes supporting bps refining base, enhancing the performance of existing assets, troubleshooting and evaluating novel opportunities
• Identify and implement programmes to develop foundational understanding of scientific challenges that cut across the adoption of new feedstocks and their conversion
• Design and lead both experimental and modelling work, including the communication of results, to meet the needs of the defined program, including internal work and with industrial partners or third parties
• Support delivery of safe, compliant and reliable operations, chipping in to the development of an excellent HSSE culture aligned with the goals of applied sciences
• Provide engineering and technical support to the detailed design, assurance and installation of research-scale experimental equipment. Provide start up assistance to new units that are commissioned at the site.
• Work well with operations team who run experimental units
• Supervise and mentor junior scientists and engineers

• MEng or PhD in chemical engineering or chemistry with CEng, or equivalent
• Practical, large scale experience in a refining environment
• Experience of relevant Research, Development and Commercialisation programmes. This could include vendor catalyst evaluation, novel model development or implementation of new feedstocks.

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working