Lead Geophysicst

Location
- United Kingdom - Sunbury
- Travel required
- Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role
- Job category
- Engineering
- Relocation available
- This role is not eligible for relocation
- Job type
- Professionals
- Job code
- RQ059869
- Experience level
- Senior

Job summary

**Entity**:
Gas & Low Carbon Energy
**Job Family Group**:
Engineering Group
**Job Summary**:
**About the role**:
Come and join us in Offshore Wind Engineering where we are a fast-growing business and a key part of bp’s transition from an International Oil Company to Integrated Energy Company.

Management of natural geohazards and manmade obstructions (challenging seabed and shallow subface ground conditions, seabed infrastructure, debris, UXO, etc.) is a critical aspect of offshore wind farm development. Working alongside fellow geoscience experts, you will have the opportunity to influence and make a significant contribution to our renewables business.

You will be able to draw on the decades of experience of bp’s enviable geoscience teams but also craft the future of the new team purpose built to serve the needs of the OFW business. You will be part of a coordinated geoscience team developing fit-for-purpose ground models and ground-engineering for bid assessment through design, construction, and operation.***

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Provide geohazards expertise across bp’s offshore wind portfolio from bid through development to operations.- Ensure geohazard identification, assessment and mitigation by avoidance or by design at windfarm sites, cable routes, landfalls and onshore facilities.- Work within an integrated geoscience team to build fit-for-purpose ground models for wind farm engineering.- Quantify and present risks to relevant partners to ensure they are understood, controlled and continuously reduced across the business.- Ensure safe and cost-efficient design and integrity management throughout asset life in accordance with bp and industry technical practices and standards.- Handling relationships with third party suppliers, contractors, and other partners.- Actively contribute to technology development and to the wider geohazards community of practice to share knowledge and findings.**What you will need to be successful**:
- Excellent understanding of the impact of Marine Geohazards issues to operational safety and integrity in delivery of the bp vision.- Ability to rapidly identify and communicate key issues in support of the growth of bp's Offshore Renewables - especially in relation to the assessment of entry to new operational areas.- Experience in delivering Geohazards Assessments cross a variety of international settings.- Excellent interpersonal skills both oral and written.- Tried experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams and major projects with mínimal technical supervision**You will work with**:

- Reports to Senior Manager Site Assessment and Ground Engineering- Engage regularly with Head of Wind Farm Design and LCoE and VP Offshore Wind Engineering- Works closely with associated OFW engineering teams (Technical Project Management, Technology and Methodology, Turbines, Foundations, Transmission, Floating Wind, Construction, Ports and T&I, Operations)- Works closely with related geo-teams in other parts of the bp group.- Partners with survey, consenting and procurement teams- Works with team members in wind resource, metocean, value engineering to optimise LCoE- Works with foundation design and installation teams to ensure reliable ground engineering design through the full project lifecycleAt bp, we provide an excellent environment and benefits such as an open and inclusive culture, a great work-life balance, tremendous learning and development opportunities to craft your career path, life and health insurance, medical care package and many others

Diversity sits at the heart of our company and as an equal opportunity employer, we stay true to our mission by ensuring that our place can be anyone's place. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.

**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**:
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