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o	Creates, designs and analyzes new products in a multitude of polymers and manufacturing processes 
o	Master of Embedded systems.
o	Does performance reviews, cost estimation and schedule meetings, fabrication and procurement issues.
o	one line diagrams, cable trays and  instrumentation diagrams (P&ID's) and decision  making skills.
o	Manages a team of 28 E/I Engineers.
o	Maintain Time sheets and design reviews set ups. 
o	Experience in working with design teams, implicated strategic construction planning, involved in comprehensive engineering solutions, which include schematic, design/development and construction phase for various  industrial/government projects.        
o	 Key Strengths: Promis-E, AutoCAD, Electrical Design Master, Siemens PLCs and HMIs, FESTO valves and  Sensors, ABB/SIEMENS/ROCKWELL Drives, Pspice, Matlab, Matcad, Multisim
o	Experience in PSPICE , MATLAB and MCAD.
o	Knowledge and implementation of electric/electronic/pneumatic control systems design, CAD drafting standards,  programming PLCs/HMIs.
o	 Ability to design and draft single line drawings, logic drawings, controls and LAN network drawings, panel  layouts, conduit layouts, wire schedules, and instrumentation loops.
o	Ability to perform lighting level calculations, short circuit calculations and over current protection for both lighting  and power applications.
o	Ability to perform control and power distribution/ transformers/single-three phase motor/ generator calculations  (low, medium and high voltage system), protective relaying, fire detection and security system, voltage drop  calculations, route conduit and cable tray.
o	 Knowledge of cost estimation and price analysis to develop and facilitate cost effective designs, perform all bid  process requirements, construction project planning and management. 
o	 Capability of strategic planning, management and supervision. 
o	Provide safety leadership relative to electrical distribution and power systems.  Qualify personnel in safe operation of High and Medium Voltage switching and execution of electrical system Lock Out/Tag Out. 
o	Lead development and implementation of arc flash, power system and electrical distribution Standard Operating Procedures and employee training and qualification
o	Work collaboratively with Engineering, Management, SHE, Purchasing, Maintenance and Reliability, Planning, Human Resources, Finance, Planning, and contractors on scoping, developing and implementing projects and programs.
o	Demonstrated competency with export power generation systems larger than 10 MVA; larger than 25 MVA.
o	Power electronics Design expert. (Analog and Digital Design
o	Examines existing products for cost, manufacturability, functionality, and quality improvements. 
o	Drives recommendations for products and projects as required; drives improvements in designs of existing products. 
o	Maintains direct interaction with Marketing & Sales and clients during the development of new products. 
o	Supports production facilities to drive product improvement, cost reduction, and product specification efforts. 
o	Analyzes design problems using engineering, mathematical principles and extensive knowledge of tooling and products. 
o	Creates design concepts and production level CAD drawings to support new products and existing product improvement. 
o	Develops product specifications for newly developed products and modifications to existing products. 
o	Monitors tooling success and make adjustments as required; communicate job schedule as necessary. 
o	Mentor and Lead Electrical Designer Levels I & II on best practices in product and tool designs. 
o	Supplies product designs & PLC programming requirements to Electrical Designer Level I and Engineering Technicians. 
o	Direct current power supplies and circuits for instrumentation, DCS and PLC systems and safety interlocks/shutdowns.
o	All instrumentation and field analyzers, both analog and discrete.
o	Coordinates all levels of Design Input as dictated in the department documentation. 
o	Coordinates the analysis of SPC data for corrective actions. 
o	Evaluates product function & performance during customer startups.
o	Worked with maintenance of Fired Heaters, air condenser, crude oil tower and reflux drums on daily basis.
o	Experience programming PLC’S and DCS.
o	Process control systems architecture design implementation.
o	Thorough understanding of the engineering documents associated with electrical/instrumentation such as: P& IDs, loop sheets, specification sheets, electrical line diagrams, logic diagrams, installation detail drawings, etc
o	Work on Voltage above 138KV and below 600V.
o	Resolve Electrical equipment reliability malfunctions.
o	Provide advice on safety, reliability, replacement, and flexibility of the electrical equipment.
o	Knowledge of different SAP modules.
o	Working knowledge of test equipment and test methods.
o	Provide routine electrical support to refinery process plants that include, but are not limited to, refining, NGL and utilities plants. 
o	 Provide routine electrical operation support to refinery in-house power generation and electrical distribution systems.
o	 Perform electrical system studies, such as system transients, dynamic modeling and load flow and reliability calculations. 
o	 Prepare electrical design packages and specify materials to add new equipment or modify existing systems.
o	 Prepare scoping, review proposals and detailed designs and follow-up on execution of major projects.
o	 Develop operating and switching procedures for electrical equipment.
o	 Prepare annual and long range operating plans and objectives. 
o	Troubleshoot, review, and implement solution for electrical problems/issues.
o	Provide technical standards/reports for preventative and predictive maintenance and repair of electrical equipment.
o	Provide technical expertise during testing, commissioning, and start-ups on new electrical equipment installation.
o	Support project engineering group in reviewing designing of electrical equipment, electrical distribution systems and substations.
o	Work within other organization to identify trends and opportunities to improve plant/stations availability, increase plant capacity, growth, reliability, maintainability and expandability.

This has been my first job coming out of college as a BSEE w/minor in CS. I interned a couple times at bp, once as an EE intern and once as a Platform Engineering (Digital) intern. My first internship at bp (in-person) as an EE intern was great, I really liked my team and the work was interesting and I got to work with a variety of different teams on my project. At the end of the summer, I asked my manager if I move to some sort of CS position if I received another internship offer for the next summer. The next summer, I got what I wished for and worked as a Digital intern. After having a fine experience at my Digital internship, I was offered a full-time position in Digital and accepted in the hopes of moving to an EE position, since that is where my main passions and interests lie. Through 2 internships, they made it seem like moving around the company was common, so I thought it would be possible. However, after not really having much work to do in my first rotation in Digital, I tried hard to move to an engineering team, but was not successful. I thought my 2 internships in different areas and connections would help me, but obviously I was mistaken. I know people in my program that have had good experiences in Digital, so I'm chalking it up to me being unlucky with team placement off the bat, as well as finding out that I'm not as interested in the Digital space as I thought I was and not being able to move to a different part of the company as quickly as expected. I wish there was more support for Digital graduates (something being heavily advocated for by us), such as assigned technical mentors. Also, most of the Digital graduates are on very diverse and international teams, which is good experience, but it's difficult to feel supported when the people you work with mostly are on the other side of the globe. In my experience, Digital is the area most affected by this problem because we have tons of contractors, a lot of whom are in India, Malaysia, etc. Overall, while I have been at bp, I haven't had many things to add to my resume, which I feel like is one of the worst experiences at a company as a recent graduate who is trying to build their career and grow as a professional.

The culture has been fine in my experience and the benefits are great, definitely the best part of my time at bp, along with the other graduates I've met.

I think bp is a fine company that is trying to rectify its image after the PR nightmare it faced about a decade ago. I do think it's genuinely trying to change as a company into a true "energy" company instead of an oil company. If you're in the Digital space and want to feel valued and work on cool projects, I'd probably steer clear of bp. It's trying to become more of a "digital" company, but it still values Petroleum Engineers and other engineer much more than it values developers. You'll get paid much more at tech companies and probably work on cooler projects, all while being supported and mentored. All that being said, there are some really cool projects at bp, but it just takes a bit of luck to be apart of them.

I can only recommend bp. I worked in three different roles in the past and I've been satisfied so far. The salary is competitive, colleagues are normal, I loved all my teams so far.

If you like routine and continuity, it's not for you. Changes are constant at bp, always newly introduced systems, process changes etc, we are always learning, but I like that. It's not a monotone job.

The work volume is not for everyone. There are days when you are so busy you can barely go to have lunch or to the restroom, and you have to be able to handle the heavy workload and the stress it comes with, but there are also days when you don’t have to do anything. These are mostly periods - summer is usually calm, while spring is crazy busy.

I personally enjoy this, because during calm periods I work from home and I can do housework. Or watch movies. So you have to be prepared mentally that you are either very busy or you have free time, which might not be very motivating for some people, but I love it.

Although there are constant changes, the processes are usually clear and improvements are also constant.

The work itself is not easy at first. It requires common sense and you need advanced computer skills, as you will be resolving other people's issues who are not. You have to do some investigation and find out the issue before you can help. There is also live chat. I don't like that, but it's manageable. There are always new issues every day, so it is not boring.

However once you get used to the work, it can become a little monotone, unless you are willing to work on the special cases.

English knowledge is a must. Written and spoken communication is part of the job, daily, in whatever role you are at bp.

There is home office - 2 office days/week, but it might change back to 3 office days (it was like thar prior covid and they are already talking about changing it back.)

The office is beautiful and comfortable. When I first stepped in, I thought I am in a hotel. I won't say it's luxurious, but compared to other workplaces, it kinda is. Coffee is free on all floors with multiple selections and plant based milks (soy, almond etc.) there are focus rooms if you want to hide. No sitting order, you can sit down wherever you want if you booked the spot or just sit in the common areas in the sofas. Cleaning ladies are cleaning up the restroom and everything else three times a day, so it's very clean. There are massage chairs, some training equipments, a sleeping pod, salt room, music room and other things.

I left bp and started working at a different SSC. After two months, I came back running. I won't leave again anytime soon.

After working for nearly a decade at BP, holding a variety of roles in various departments, I experienced great joy and great disappointment. My biggest takeaway is that your manager (or the leadership of your department) can pave the way to either your success, stagnation or demise. Change was constant the entire time I was there and during some of the hardest times (oil spill era), I had phenomenal leaders who fostered my progress and growth. Yet, as the company began downsizing, I encountered 'managers' who had no backbone or clue on how to grow or represent their employees' capabilities. 

I was extremely loyal to the company and believed in their values, because the majority of staff embodied them. However, it only takes one or two 'difficult' clashes to put you outside of the cliques and then you are managed out, demeaned and made to feel you are incompetent. Although they bring you to the team as the subject matter expert, others who have no clue about the discipline are allowed to influence decisions based on their 'feelings.' They attempt to gaslight you, and it's a known tactic they use to get people to quit instead of firing them. If you are seriously considering an offer from BP, know that it's just a 'job' not a career; you are expendable; don't miss your valuable family life for work success; negotiate your salary and benefits because they will attempt to low ball you and have you do more than the prior person did for less. Be prepared for constant change and don't be one to buck the status quo unless you have high-profile leaders that 'have your back.'

It wasn't until I left that I realized how complex the bureaucracy and 'leading by consensus' made simple projects so much more difficult -- leading to tons of iterations of the same product, rework, redundant work or work that never leads to anything productive. Of the 4 roles I had in a decade, 2 were phenomenal and 2 were what I described above. So, roll the dice and take a chance. :) Being in an oil major, their benefits, bonuses and competitive salaries make it very hard to leave.

What I liked about my time with BP was that a 'typical' workday always involved new problems to solve and a lot of learning. The workday began at 6:30am and ended at 5:00pm. First order of business was morning meetings where each departmenet in the I&E shop met and discussed events of the previous day, safety issues, and that day's work assignments. Technicians working alone or more commonly in pairs were given work orders and sent out into the operations units to perform their assigned tasks.

I had a chance to work with each department in the I&E shop for at least 3 weeks each. I got a chance to put a lot of the instruction I'd received in school into practice in an actual work environment. In addition to learning how to install and calibrate variouspresure, flow, level, and temperature transmitters and sensors I learned how to integrate all these into DCS, fieldbus, SCADA, etc systems.

Management and co-workers were always helpful and genuinely concerned with my having a positive experience and getting as much hands on experience as possible. Everyone I worked with never failed to answer my questions and showed remarkable patience in letting me figure things out.

Initially the hardest part of the job was the physical requirements of climbing tanks and towers and working in very confined and hot spaces with all my tools and PPE. After the 2nd week I adjusted and had no problems.

The most enjoyable part of the job was being accepted as a part of the team and given meaningful work to do. I felt trusted and competent and it made me feel good.

I worked as both a contractor for and a employee of BP Exploration back in the days when it found, retrieved, refined, transported, and sold petroleum and its by products. I was a proud member of the team even during the Macondo disaster when we did the right thing and cleaned up and paid for restoration of the environment. Once It changed its name to “bp” it metamorphosed into a company so desperately concerned with its social image and went from its mission of responsibly providing energy to the world to chasing Instagram fads and to much of its leadership got caught up in social justice warrioring. It’s sad to see the changes going on. 

Life at BP Exploration was all about major technological projects and development. Bringing new fields to life, collecting the resource in accordance with local law and bringing prosperity to areas that may have never known it. While delivering superior products to market and providing reliable service. 

Life at “bp” is a pale shadow of those days. Frightened of the climate change mob they instead develop windmill farms and solar panel fields that blight the land. More meager offshore projects that are dwarfed by competitors projects. They dispose of the assets that stood as the pinnacle of technological achievement. They chase fads and worry more about appearing “woke” than about their prior mission. It’s now an endless cycle of stress, Pulse surveys, Social Enginneering and an 18 month layoff cycle. It’s  become more and more difficult to accomplish actual work anymore.

My time there has been very stressful from having to learn on my own coupled with a heavy workload and very tight timelines. Struggles with different departments and vendors wanting to cooperate with each other, which is especially difficult for such a large company. Safety importance dropped over time and was replaced with a drive to complete work quickly, which was exacerbated with dropping oil prices. Have been unwilling to spend money for automation even though ROI due to eliminating manual resources would be achieved within the same year. Leadership does not understand business theory.

Being laid off now because failure of leadership to submit the correct promotion paperwork 2 years ago and HR unwillingness to correct it and grant the promotion off-cycle even though 2 co-workers hired after me were hired at a higher level. Was to be promoted this year, but promotion freeze prevented it from being completed. Layoff of all employees is occurring at my level without consideration of accomplishments or skills, but based only on grade level. Co-workers hired after me at a higher grade are being retained. Would have been retained had I been promoted when I was supposed to be. Leadership is very short-sighted as concern is only for reducing severance amount even though mid and long-term negative impact due to lack of job knowledge in job individuals are being placed in.

I held positions as an administrative assistant in three subsidiaries of BP/Amoco and a customer service representative within the US Fuels business unit. My last position was in the corporation's Business Service Center, where I was a Specialist, Account Management. In this position I owned responsibility for the smooth systems operation and account billing and collection activity for fuel purchases for a nationwide customer data base. In the responsibility of billing and collection activity, I posted cash, created invoices, reconciled cash, researched residuals, made soft collection calls, working extensively with representatives in the Credit department when necessary to coordinate collection activity. I made a daily review of receivables aging reports for customers. During the last 5 years of my tenure, my specialty area was federal, state, and municiple accounts. The position responsibilities evolved into service to corporate customers of all types; i.e., trucking, government, state, and small businesses across the nation. Daily communications with customers, both internal and external. Extensive documentation within customer management system called Seibel.

There are many tasks that are required from the manager on a day-today basis at BP. 

First of all, the manager must know all that needs to be done in the store that day and ensure that his staff completes it effectively. A typical day at work consists of the manager working with different technologies (P.O.S. system, Lottery, check cashing, Post Office) and making sure that all drawers are balanced at the end of the day. A manager must also consistently motivate employees to deliver a high level of customer service and stay on task. 

This job has taught me many things. I learned that not everybody has the same mindset and thought process so the things I say to my employees must be extremely clear and straightforward; there is no room for assumption. It is also important to show appreciation for the things that my employees do. An employee must know that his or her hard work does not go unnoticed. 

The hardest part of my job is to ensure that a certain level of service is being delivered. In this highly competitive industry, customer service cannot be overlooked and a certain level of service can be a difficult think to measure. 

To me, the most enjoyable part of my job is constantly talking and interacting with people. I meet all types of people every day and that is what I enjoy the most. It is a wonderful networking opportunity and it is also an important skill to have.

contracted for them 11/12 years ago, redundantly round and round arriving on location to find a co-worker already doing what i was sent to do and vice/versa to many people in control with absolutely no communication between any of them causing 1000's of wasted man hours and not much getting done but VERY costly,unneeded overhead. Well good to know somethings never change! Well very minutely now not only are contractors repeatedly cross paths but employees are thrown in for good measure. They are trying a new algorithm that was proved inadequate from the last company i worked for. BP is trying to reduce cost by becoming a complete contract company which has it's pro's but mostly CON's not only for the company but for those it indirectly employs.People think they are making out, but overhead has not truly been taken into account, this new way of operations is an excellent training program, but for those who are in the know it is beyond frustrating having to call for every action needed, if you have service, hoping 1 of the 4 people that are there to assist you answer the phone, then go through the other 20 contacts you have picked up along the way don't answer either, so the say $20 bid for a 5 min job now has taken 4 hours because of that lack of communication, now it cost you $5 in gas alone to operate that well

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