Entity:

Technology

Job Family Group:

Wells Group

Job Description:

About us
Our purpose is to bring together people, energy and markets to power and navigate a changing world. In a time of constant change and possibility we need new talent to pursue commercial opportunities, fueled by world-class insight and expertise. We’re always striving for more innovative digital solutions, balanced outcomes and closer collaboration across our company and beyond, and you could be part of that too. Together we continue to grow as the world’s leading energy company!

Job Summary

bp’s Oil and Gas Technology (OGT) group is at the forefront of technology development, enabling safe, reliable, and efficient operations across bp’s portfolio. Within OGT, the Subsurface & Wells Technology (SS&W) team delivers high-impact, innovative solutions to priority business challenges across bp’s oil, gas, and low-carbon businesses.

The Wells Technology Unit is one of four core delivery areas within SS&W, focused on advanced drilling, completions, interventions, surveillance, and fluids technologies.

This role is a Senior Completions & Interventions Engineer acting as a technical squad lead, responsible for shaping and delivering completions and interventions solutions to prioritized business challenges. The role combines deep technical expertise with strong project management, stakeholder engagement, and the ability to influence across disciplines and delivery teams.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead the development and deployment of completions and interventions solutions that improve well productivity, recovery, reliability, and cost efficiency

• Act as a technical squad lead, coordinating a small, multi-disciplinary group of contributors aligned to a defined problem or delivery scope

• Provide technical leadership in completions and interventions, from concept development through design, execution support, and deployment

• Drive project execution, including scope definition, planning, risk management, and delivery against agreed work

• Collaborate closely with operations teams, subsurface partners, and central wells teams to ensure solutions are operationally relevant and adoptable

• Lead engagement with suppliers and service companies, shaping technology development, tool selection, qualification programs, and field trials

• Apply engineering judgement to prioritize work and manage trade-offs, focusing effort on the highest-value opportunities

• Communicate progress, risks, and outcomes clearly to senior stakeholders, influencing decisions and alignment across the organization

• Capture findings and contribute to the completions and interventions technology roadmap

Experience / Capabilities

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering (or equivalent); Petroleum, Mechanical, Chemical, or related discipline preferred

• Extensive experience as a Completions and/or Interventions Engineer, with strong technical depth and operational credibility

• Experience across land and/or deepwater operations, with exposure to complex or high-risk well environments

• Technical expertise in one or more of the following areas:

  • Subsea and/or surface tree interventions, including well access, intervention planning, and execution

  • Sand control design and execution, including gravel packs, frac packs, screens, and completions integrity considerations

  • Completion system design, including tubing, packers, flow control devices, and intelligent or advanced completions

  • Well intervention technologies, including wireline, coiled tubing, workover, or light intervention systems

• Experience working with service providers and technology suppliers, including trial design, qualification, and deployment

• Demonstrated ability to lead technical delivery as a squad lead, influencing without direct line management

• Strong project management capability, including planning, execution, and delivery of multiple work scopes

• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to influence across disciplines and seniority levels

• Proven critical thinking and problem-solving skills, with a focus on practical, deployable solutions that deliver business value

Why join bp:
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 encouraging an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.
There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, and excellent retirement benefits, among others!

Travel Requirement

Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is not available for remote working

Skills:

Artificial Lift, Artificial Lift, Casing and wellhead recovery, Casing Design, Cementing, Coiled Tubing, Common process for wells activities, Completion equipment and accessories, Completion landing string systems, Completions and Interventions Fluids, Completion tubing design, Control of Work, Cost Management, Crisis and emergency response management, Directional Drilling, Drilling, Drilling data acquisition and well monitoring, Drilling Operations, Drillstring component selection, Electric-line, Equipment integrity assurance, Fracturing and stimulation, Intelligent Completions, Managed Pressure Drilling, Management of change {+ 38 more}

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