Production Technician

Role synopsis:

Production Technician – responsible for carrying out day to day site operational activities to ensure the asset operates in a safe, compliant, and reliable manner with minimum impact on the environment to deliver the business objectives.

Key accountabilities:

1. Deliver safe, compliant, reliable operations ensuring that BP HSSE and Operating Discipline expectations are met;
2. Monitor and control equipment and process and ensure that facility operations remain within the parameters stated in the Operations Manual/Procedures and communicate to the site leadership any deviation;
3. Optimize plant and equipment performance and where options for plant optimization exist ensure they are raised with the site leadership and AEST team. Safe and efficient execution of operating tasks. (Comment: Operations routines, SOPs, basics care etc.);
4. Comply with all process safety aspects of operations and identify any gaps to compliance and seek approval. (Including SOPs, MOC, ORA, overrides, LO/LC valves, leaks and seeps, handovers etc.);
5. Deliver full compliance with all Control of Work requirements for the role;
6. Prepare and implement isolations, perform monitoring, integrity and pre-start-up checks, process line-ups, reinstatement after maintenance etc.);
7. Maintain an awareness of the site major risks and ongoing operational risks and informs site leadership of any emergent risks.

Essential Education:

High School or related technical course in Process Management or Production and Crude Storage

Essential experience and job requirements:

1. Minimum 7 years of experience as a production technician or corresponding function;
2. Extensive knowledge of equipment and its functions;
3. Knowledge of integrity management requirements;
4. Angolan nationality (required).

Desirable criteria & qualifications:

1. Operating experience in the oil and gas industry
2. Experience in using a computerized maintenance management system

About BP:

We are a global energy business involved in every aspect of the energy system. We have 75,000 employees in 80 countries, working towards delivering light, heat and mobility to millions of people, every day. We are one of the very few companies equipped to solve some of the big complex challenges that matter for the future. We have a real contribution to make to the world’s ambition of a low carbon future. Join us, and be part of what we can accomplish together.