Entity:

Production & Operations

Job Family Group:

Business Support Group

Job Description:

2026 Instrument & Control Engineering_ Internship

Thinking about your future? So are we. We’re working hard to deliver energy to the world today and tomorrow. But we can’t do it alone. As a valued member of our early careers programmes in India, you will work with us to shape the future of our organization. ​

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Why join bp? ​

Our industry moves quickly. To remain at the forefront, we need to invest – in people and their development, not just research and technology. We’re committed to unlocking people’s potential, so you can do your best work and we can all stay ahead of the game. For this reason, we invest in nurturing exceptional talent, including people like you. When you join, you’ll be part of a company committed to growing our business – and your career. We operate ‘as one’ at bp and believe that building strong relationships is key to your success. Across our network, we have some amazing business resource groups with representation in various countries across the globe. These are aimed at creating a sense of belonging and making sure that our people feel seen, connected and supported – all while empowering you to feel a part of our inclusive world.

BP Technical Solutions India (TSI) centre in Pune, aims to build on bp’s existing engineering and technical strengths to deliver high quality services to its hydrocarbons other businesses worldwide. TSI brings together diverse engineering capability to provide technical services across a range of areas including engineering, maintenance, optimization, data processes, projects and subsurface, to deliver safe, affordable energy, while continuously innovating how we work. Our global subsurface solutions team delivers high-quality, high impact, subsurface technical products to address prioritized business challenges across bp’s oil, gas, and low carbon energy businesses.

Your Early Careers Program

One Engineering is an early careers programme designed to create a pipeline of diverse professional engineers who are high-performers, have broad discipline experience, a transferable skills-set, and solving the most complex problems of today and of the future. Early career discipline engineers will build their experience through challenging development assignments, develop a toolkit of transferable skills for the future, and have a dedicated network of support to help them succeed.

Early Careers Experience at bp

Our summer internships are 8 weeks. You’ll be based in one team throughout your internship, working on real projects that you’ll be able to manage through to completion. Throughout you’ll have the support of a dedicated line manager and a buddy from one of our early careers programs. Alongside your day-to-day responsibilities, you’ll have the opportunity to attend events and socials, take part in training sessions to help develop your interpersonal skills and network with leaders from across bp. The program is designed to help build your skills and technical knowledge whilst also allowing you to learn more about life at bp. This is an assessed internship and may be a potential talent pipeline into graduate opportunities the following year.

About the discipline: Instrumentation Control & Electrical (ICE) Engineering

ICE is a core engineering discipline within bp and have sub discipline including

Instrumentation & Protective Systems Control & Automation Electrical Engineering Measurement & Analyser Systems Operations Critical Telecoms

Role and Responsibilities

Instrument and Control engineer enables digitally secure, safe, reliable and optimal control of complex energy facilities, which include our oil refineries and biofuels plants, oil and gas production facilities, green and blue hydrogen production, on-shore and off-shore wind, solar and integrated mobility solutions.

The Instrumentation and Control engineer’s job cover a wide range of topics including design and maintenance of:

• Process Control Systems

• Safety Instrumented Systems

• Fire and Gas Systems

• Field Instrumentation

• Analyser Systems

• Metering Systems

• Telecommunications Systems and Networks

• Security Systems

• Automation Systems Cyber Security

All the above is in support of enhancing safety, optimising production, and improving reliability of our diverse facilities across the globe.

You could find yourself:

• Conducting programs for various bp assets. Programs can be Alarm management, Advanced process control system, Functional safety, Maintenance optimization and Global Hardware solutions.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, including drawings, specifications, and test reports.
• Support in problem solving requested by the regions/assets.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Support the review and continuous improvement of Instrument designs for functionality, manufacturability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Follow company engineering standards and participate in design reviews and project meetings.
• Designing and building process plant control systems, which means incredible variety. One day you could be working out the best way to control a biofuels reactor, the next you could be working on installing an advanced control system (a kind of autopilot) for blue hydrogen production.

• Working with the latest sensing, measurement & analysis instrument technologies; learning design and application of safety instrumented systems in production, refining, pipelines, carbon capture, hydrogen generation, biofuels and renewable energy facilities

• Integrating instrument and protection systems for electric vehicles, battery charging and storage systems or working with miniature sensors to develop energy systems integrating wind, solar and green hydrogen energy.
• Support subsea controls engineering for the global subsea controls’ equipment condition supervising data and tools.
• Support global offshore production operations with identifying control system anomalies through a standard set of supervising tools and dashboards.
• Prepare, review, and endorse controls-related, plans, procedures and metrics and intervene where appropriate.
• Prepare and maintain global equipment strategies for subsea controls equipment
• Provide controls engineering support to annual integrity reviews, fit for service barrier evaluations and incident investigations.
• Record relevant failures/learning in the shared learning systems, incorporate into reliability data reporting/global activities specifications/practices/procedures and share with controls community, call out high priority lessons.

• Working with the latest wireless technology to support development and use of industrial IoT as we build new energy systems and modernise our legacy operations.

• Working with an incredibly diverse and distributed team of experienced engineers with a global perspective. Automation touches everything in bp, even our rapid battery charging solutions require cyber secure safe control systems. Who knows where this could lead?

Requirements

• Be currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Instrumentation & Control engineering, Instrumentation engineering
• Maintain a CGPA of min. 7.5
• Internship Programme: To apply for this role, you must be in your penultimate year of study and graduating by July 2027 and eligible for a 2 month internship between May – July 2026
• Have a willingness to learn, a passion to excel and deliver results

Location

You will be based in our Pune office.

Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/ accommodation related to the recruitment process, please inform your placement coordinator.

Travel Requirement

No travel is expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is not available for remote working

Skills:

Adaptability, Authenticity, Collaboration, Communication, Continuous Learning, Courage, Creativity and Innovation, Curiosity, Decision Making, Digital Fluency, Ethical judgement, Excellence, Influencing, Knowledge Sharing, Listening, Managing volatility, Problem Solving, Resilience, Self-Awareness, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management, Understanding Emotions, Writing skills

Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us.

If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.