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Remote Sensing & Production Technology Lead
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Entity: Technology Job Family Group: IT&S Group
Job Description
Please note that roles based out of SJS or Sunbury will move to Timber Square, Southwark, from Q4 2027.
Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner!
The Remote Sensing & Production Technology Lead is accountable for end-to-end delivery of a multi-site technology and automation portfolio delivery across Upstream, ensuring safe, reliable and value-driven execution from concept through to operational handover.
The role provides strong portfolio governance with a team distributed across the operating centers, prioritization and integration across delivery squads, translating strategic intent into executable plans while maintaining deep alignment with Upstream operational needs, constraints and standards.
Accountabilities
- Lead the facilities automation portfolio, delivering initiatives across multiple sites, aligned to Upstream priorities and agreed business outcomes.
- Own portfolio planning and sequencing, balancing demand, delivery capacity, cost, risk and value across sites and initiatives.
- Contribute to the FM process and manage/monitor team spend.
- Manage HSSE compliance of the Sensors Labs
- Execute delivery using CVP, Agile, or stage-gated frameworks with clear scope, schedules, cost forecasts, portfolio-level risks, and quality controls.
- Act as the day-to-day point of contact for operations, owning escalation and resolution of portfolio-level and site-level risks, issues and dependencies.
- Manage vendor engagement, technical integration, and site-level commercial alignment, ensuring delivery remains within agreed portfolio cost and risk boundaries.
- Engagement with external bodies such as University collaborations and participation in Industrial forums such as Sprint Robotics
- Ensure operational data quality, including validation and effective use of dashboards for CBM, alarms, and surveillance, and for portfolio performance and health reporting.
- Integration with other systems of record and digital twin.
- Coordinate testing, validation, FAT/SAT, PoC-to-pilot progression, site readiness, commissioning, and handover, ensuring consistent standards and assurance across the portfolio.
- Drive adoption and readiness by coaching site teams and delivery squads, ensuring delivered solutions transition successfully into steady-state operations.
- Deliver effective digital integration including digital security compliance for facilities automation, ensuring validated, intelligence-supported data reaches operators for safe, efficient decision-making.
- Provide transparent portfolio performance insight, including progress, cost, risk, dependencies, adoption and outcomes, to support governance and reprioritisation decisions.
- Develop performance metrics (KPI's) and standardised reporting.
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Experience / Capabilities
- Strong track record delivering a portfolio of projects across multiple sites, with accountability for planning, sequencing, cost, risk performance and delivery outcomes at portfolio level.
- Deep Upstream operational understanding.
- Proven ability to coach teams and support consistent execution across sites.
- Skilled at coordinating engineers, operations, site teams, and vendors to land solutions effectively.
- Experience with operational data, dashboards, CBM/alarms, and decision-support tools, including portfolio-level performance and health reporting.
- Strong cross-disciplinary communication and problem-solving, including supporting portfolio-level planning, prioritisation and trade-off decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to manage portfolio-level risks, dependencies and delivery trade-offs across multiple initiatives.
- Denotes Critical Skill
Why join us?
At bp, we support our people to grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. 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, excellent retirement benefits, among others!
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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 a hybrid of office/remote working
Skills
Commercial Acumen, Communication, Data Analysis, Data cleansing and transformation, Data domain knowledge, Data Integration, Data Management, Data Manipulation, Data Sourcing, Data strategy and governance, Data Structures and Algorithms (Inactive), Data visualization and interpretation, Digital Security, Extract, transform and load, Group Problem Solving
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We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics like race, religion, color, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us. If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks. This careers site is for bp contractors only. Please do not refer or share the role(s) with anyone who is not currently a contractor at bp.
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