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Materials & Corrosion Engineer (Refining) – TSI
Location: IN: Pune – Building 5
Travel required: Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role
Job category: Engineering
Relocation available: This role is eligible for relocation within the country
Job type: Professionals
Job code: RQ086208
Experience level: Intermediate
Job summary:
Entity: Production & Operations
Job Family Group: Engineering Group
Job Description:
About bp:
- 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 talent to pursue opportunities, motivated by elite insight and expertise. We’re always aspiring for more 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!
About the Role:
- The Materials & Corrosion Engineer is accountable for providing corrosion and materials engineering expertise and judgment in the service of the Refinery integrity teams and projects teams in support of engineering risk and the delivery of safe, compliant, and efficient operations.
Responsibilities:
- Provide corrosion and materials engineering expertise to refinery teams operations teams across P&O (Production & Operations) (Operations, Maintenance & Reliability, Projects Ops, Turnarounds) to manage corrosion and materials threats on equipment.
- Ensure pragmatic solutions are identified and implemented to manage risk, production efficiency, defect elimination, and standardization, to deliver safe, reliable, and compliant operations.
- Support damage mechanism reviews (DMR) for new equipment and revalidations. Review and carry out corrosion rate assessment and prepare corrosion management documentation.
- Provide corrosion input to risk-based inspection (RBI) plans.
- Review inspection results and make repair recommendations.
- Review and endorse corrosion-related metrics (e.g., corrosion control matrices and LOPC (Loss of Primary Containment) data) and intervene where appropriate.
- Provide corrosion and materials engineering support to incident investigations.
- May be required to support Biofuel and Biofuel pretreatment.
People and business related:
- Provide visible safety leadership in accordance with bp safety leadership principles, lifesaving rules, and process safety fundamentals to model desired safety behaviors.
- Record relevant learning in shared learning systems, incorporate into local activities, specifications/practices/procedures, and raise high-priority lessons.
- Support performance management through implementation, measurement, and analysis of relevant KPIs to drive continuous improvement.
Education:
Must have education requirements:
- Degree in Corrosion or Materials Engineering related discipline (e.g., chemical engineering, chemistry, mechanical engineering, civil engineering).
- Postgraduate certification in corrosion.
Must have certifications:
- API 571 refinery damage mechanisms.
- API 580/581 RBI.
Preferred education/certifications:
- Professional accreditation e.g., Professional Engineer, Chartered Engineer (IOM3, IChemE, Institute of Corrosion).
- Above-ground storage tank inspection, inspection data analysis for corrosion rates, API 653 remaining life assessment, and risk-based inspection plan development (will be beneficial).
- Certification and/or in-depth knowledge NACE Senior Corrosion Technologist, BSI ISO/ENI AS Standards, AWS/CSWIP/ASNT NDT Techniques.
- Relevant field experience with pressure systems integrity engineering for O&G processing facilities.
Experience job requirements:
Minimum years of relevant experience:
- 5+ years’ experience working in the field of Corrosion or Materials Engineering in refining operations.
Total years of experience:
- 5+ years’ experience working in the field of Corrosion or Materials Engineering in refining operations.
Must have experiences/skills (To be hired with):
- Operational corrosion management experience.
- Technical expertise in several areas related to the discipline applied to Refinery Operations. These include:
- Refinery corrosion mechanisms
- Refinery materials selection
- Understanding of refinery processing units
- Inspection techniques (e.g., UT, radiography, visual)
- Failure investigation
- Chemical treatments for corrosion control
- Corrosion monitoring
- Corrosion management systems for refinery operations
- Fabric maintenance/painting
- Certification and/or in-depth working knowledge in API 580, API 510, API 570, API 571, API 653, NACE Senior Corrosion Technologist, BS/ISO/EN/AS standards, AWS/CSWIP/ASNT NDT techniques.
- Familiar with industry standards for corrosion and integrity management and their application.
- People leadership, teamwork, and an ability to network and influence across organizational boundaries.
- Fluent in English, written and oral.
- Familiar with process design, process safety, and operating conditions of typical O&G units.
- Individual must be highly motivated and a self-starter.
Good to have experiences/skills (Can be trained for – learning/on-the-job):
- Welding.
- Sour service.
- Integrity management in refineries and oil & gas projects.
- Cathodic protection.
- Erosion and erosion management.
- Background in mechanical design, selection, fabrication, and quality assurance of pressure equipment, heat exchangers, piping systems, valves, and pressure relief devices.
- Knowledgeable in Biofuel production, process of producing feedstock for various products.
- Knowledgeable in pretreatment in Biofuel feedstock, reactions, product purification.
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