Senior Production Chemist - TSI

Location

Pune | India

Job description

• The Senior Production Chemist is responsible for expertise and input into decision making to ensure the safe, efficient, and reliable operations with respect to flow assurance, crude dehydration, foam, and emulsion control, produced and injected water, corrosion mitigation, sampling and laboratory analysis, and chemical management
• A leadership role providing guidance and mentoring for the Production Chemistry team to ensure development
• This role supports Production Chemistry across several regions to optimize production and maintain compliance with industry standards and regulations, and early adoption of best practices and innovations present on the industry
• Engaging with various disciplines, sub-functions, and contractors, the Senior Production Chemist responds to production-related challenges, implementation of practical solutions, emphasizing risk reduction, production streamlining, defect elimination ensuring standardization of monitoring of production chemistry threats and barrier health as required for multiple regions
• The role will participate / lead in codifying best practices and continuous improvement into technical standards, support their implementation and self verification across operating entities

Core responsibilities:

• Provide Production Chemistry expertise to other teams squads across PO (Operations, Maintenance Reliability, Projects Ops, TAR and Subsea) as required to manage threats.
• Ensure pragmatic solutions are identified and implemented to manage risk, production efficiency, defect elimination and standardization, to deliver safe, reliable and compliant operations.
• Manage team, provide training and supervision of internal and contracted personnel, transparent leadership and behaviors, and continuous improvement.
• Provide capability and support for flow assurance; lead on emulsions, hydrates, waxes, scale and asphaltene related challenges.
• Corrosion Prevention and Control: Interfacing with Integrity Management teams to provide capability and support to manage corrosion threats.
• Provide support for all production chemistry related trouble shooting or incident investigations.
• Ensure processes meet environmental regulations to minimize or eliminate impact on the environment.
• Record relevant learning in shared learning systems, incorporate into local activities, specifications/ practices/ procedures and raise high priority lessons.
• Contribute to CMS contract management and continuous development

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 KPI s to drive continuous improvement.
• Support staff development of junior engineers

Must have education requirements:

• Degree in Chemistry/ Chemical Engineering or relevant science or engineering field ( Biology, Mechanical Engineering, Corrosion science).

Must have certifications:

• Working towards professional accreditation (Chartered Chemist, Professional or Chartered Engineer)

Preferred education/certifications

• Chartered Chemist, Professional or Chartered Engineer

Minimum years of relevant experience:

• 10+ years exposure to oil and gas laboratory analysis
• 10+ years working in oil and gas production (upstream/downstream)

Total years of experience:

• 14+ years in the field of Production Chemistry supporting upstream operations.

Must have experiences/skills (To be hired with)

• Operating experience in relevant production chemistry or engineering roles
• Deep technical expertise related to the field, including chemical selection, optimization, laboratory management, analytical techniques, threat assessment, corrosion mechanisms, corrosion management, and well treatments
• Experience in creating value through the formation and delivery of cost-effective improvement programs
• Ability and confidence to engage with and influence senior leadership on technical matters.
• People leadership, partnership and an ability to network and influence across organizational boundaries
• Familiar with process design, process safety and operating conditions of typical OG units
• Proficient in English, written and oral.

Good to have experiences/skills (Can be trained for - learning/on-the-job):

• Management and leadership skills
• Integrity management in oil and gas projects
• Corrosion, materials and damaging mechanisms in oil and gas industry
• Skills in digital to enhance Production Chemistry monitoring
• Advanced knowledge of working with agile principles and tools
• Experience working collaboratively in a global organization.
• Customer service approach

Travel requirements - 20-30%

Travel Requirement

Up to 25% travel should be expected with this role

Skills:

Application of hierarchy of control, Application of hierarchy of control, Asset health monitoring, Commercial acumen, Defect Elimination, Design case for safety, Design development and delivery, Design performance standards, Economic evaluation methodology, Emergency process isolation and shutdown systems, Environment and Social Impact Assessment, Facility layout, Fluid characterisation, Hazardous area classification, Hydraulics, Layer of Protection Analysis, Lean Practices, Major accident risk, Operational performance standards, Personal Safety, Plant Layout, Process and process safety design philosophies, Process control and automation, Process performance monitoring, Process safety assurance + 5 more

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