Engineering & Maintenance Manager

Entity:

Technology

Job Family Group:

Engineering Group

Job Description:

At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others.

Job Profile Summary

This job description sets out the responsibilities of the Engineering & Maintenance Manager. The successful candidate will be accountable for the engineering integrity of the business’s research and development laboratory and pilot plant equipment, associated infrastructure, and supporting systems based at Bengaluru. The role carries key accountability for compliance with applicable legislative, company, and site requirements.

The post holder will act as the custodian of core engineering systems, processes, and procedures for the business, setting standards, implementing policy, and providing assurance across these areas.

The role will support the day-to-day engineering strategy, modifications, and reliability improvements for all R&D assets, from pilot plants through to laboratory-scale equipment at the Bengaluru site. The post holder will also support the development and delivery of capital projects as required and provide engineering discipline leadership to ensure compliance with mechanical engineering standards across the Bengaluru site.

This is a hybrid role, combining leadership of a multi-disciplinary engineering team with an operational focus on safe, reliable, and compliant delivery.

Key Accountabilities

Job Advert

Downstream Research and Development is where bp’s physical research and development takes place. It covers the science behind bp’s products, processes, and technologies, supporting innovation across the full lifecycle from research and product development through to demonstration, scale-up, commercialisation, and in-market technical support.

This is an opportunity to join a business that works closely with many of bp’s internal businesses and external partners, supporting today’s operational priorities while helping to deliver future technologies.

This role leads the assurance of mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation engineering within an R&D environment, providing oversight and verification of engineering delivery.

The post holder will also provide technical query support to the Bengaluru operating teams.

Success in this role means strengthening inherently safer design, supporting safe systems of work, and meeting the engineering challenges of a research, development, and technology-led business.

What you will be responsible for:

• Lead the safe and effective delivery of engineering and maintenance activities for bp’s research equipment and infrastructure, ensuring health, safety, legislative, commercial, and business requirements are met and maintained at the Bengaluru site.
• Act as the Accountable Engineering and Maintenance Person for the multi-disciplinary site engineering team, ensuring compliance and delivery in line with the Group Operating Standard and bp engineering practices, including the development of local practices where required.
• Support bp’s R&D operations team to minimise downtime and optimise the availability of laboratory and pilot plant assets.
• Provide guidance and support for major engineering and maintenance events at the bp R&D Bengaluru site, including outages, pilot plant shutdowns, and planned or unplanned events. Providing leadership for incidents throughout their lifecycle.
• Ensure competent discipline experts are available to support the technical requirements of the site-based R&D team, drawing on local engineering resources or corporate engineering support as required.
• Review and monitor the planned preventative maintenance programme, identifying and implementing improvements and cost efficiencies.
• Optimise spare parts holdings, with a focus on asset life, obsolescence, strategic spares, and safe and secure storage.
• Manage the Bengaluru site asset register and clearly identify safety-critical equipment.
• Ensure maintenance and engineering goods and services are competitively tendered and delivered in a cost-effective manner.
• Lead design review and assurance for site-based experimental equipment and pilot plants, including externally procured small- to medium-scale laboratory research equipment.
• Deliver the Engineering and Maintenance Manager role positively and professionally, completing required self-development and driving compliance and assurance programmes to confirm that systems and equipment are designed to bp standards and t