Job title Foundation Programme Lead
About BP Our business is the exploration, production, refining, trading and distribution of energy. This is what we do, and we do it on a truly global scale. With a workforce of 80,000 employees, BP operates with business activities and customers in more than 80 countries across six continents. Every day, we serve millions of customers around the world. We are continually looking for talented, committed and ambitious people to help us shape the face of energy for the future.
BP's Upstream segment focuses on finding reserves of oil and gas, developing the means to extract and process it and then consistently producing and transporting it to market. This involves using cutting edge technology to find the energy reserves, the ability to drill thousands of meters under the ground, designing, building and operating some of the world's largest most complex production onshore / offshore facilities and finally being able to transport these fluids, in order to provide energy to the world.
Through Technology we have designed industry leading solutions to drive business delivery and are continuously extending the limits of what we can do. We attract, inspire and retain a diverse talent pool with world class development, deployment and connectivity. Common processes and practices define the way we work, where we strive to make every well better than the previous one.
Role synopsis
Foundation Programme Lead will work as integrated part of the Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey (AGT) Wells Discipline Capability Team. This team is responsible for technical aspects of recruitment, development, assessment and deployment of Wells professionals aligned to BP Global Wells Organisation (GWO) strategy and AGT regional business priorities.
The Foundation Programme Lead will manage foundation early career developmental programmes aimed at equipping junior engineering hires with the basic technical and core competencies necessary to grow their careers, through a combination of formal training and structured on-the-job experiences aligned with BP’s standards.
The scope of the role encompasses supporting:
• Wells engineering scholarship students prior to graduate hire
• Wells summer internship progammes
• Wells ‘Challenge’ progarmme (‘Challenge’ is the descriptor for BP’s development programme for graduate hires - challengers)
Key accountabilities Development and Recruitment
• Management of the global Wells Challenge Programme development plan within AGT Region.
• Conduct training needs analysis for challenge staff and work out development programmes, including in-country and overseas training, workshops / learning forums, and webinars.
• Develop processes and provide implementation assurance for effective coaching of Challenge population.
• Manage development assessment processes for all challengers in accordance with global wells standards.
• Manage Wells summer internship programme within AGT region.
• Responsible for technical assessment/interviews for graduate and summer intern recruitment.
• Work with Human Resources to build and maintain relationships with relevant local and international universities.
• Oversee developmental progress of Wells sponsored Azerbaijani students on university scholarship programmes.
• Oversee technical aspects of recruitment of national candidates for Wellsite Leader of the Future programme (WSLf); monitor performance and provide liaison with WSLf programme management.
Standards and Compliance
Essential Education
• Minimum Bachelor degree in Engineering or Technical Sciences
Essential experience and job requirements
• Minimum 10 years of experience in Oil and Gas industry
• Experience in working out strategies to develop workforce capability
• Demonstrable ability to clearly articulate strengths and developmental needs of technical staff under early career development
• The capability to work with inexperienced (junior engineering) staff, their team leaders, Wells Management and other internal and external stakeholders
• Exhibit excellent teamwork behaviours
• Be highly self-motivated, driven to success and ability to work with minimum supervision
• Exhibit excellent networking and communication skills – This role involves close interaction with internal and external stakeholders including universities and training providers. Success will require good networking and relationship building
• Demonstrated fluency and excellence in verbal and written English
Desirable criteria & qualifications
• Managerial experience
• Degree in Petroleum Engineering
• Demonstrable experience of well related activities as a practising engineer in an international operating oil company
• Demonstrable capabilities of managing, leading, developing, coaching and assessing less experienced (junior engineering) Wells staff.
• Experience in developing others.
• High awareness and experience in developing HSE culture.
• Demonstrable ability to meet deadlines and prioritise workload.
• Previous experience of competency based interviewing for Wells related disciplines.
• Demonstrable successes of effectively influencing others (peers and superiors) when not in a position of line authority.
• Demonstrable ability to identify improvement opportunities and acting decisively to implement them.
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