Overview
Mechanical engineering is vital to BP. It ensures safe and reliable plant operation, over the life of an asset in a cost-effective manner. This involves preventing hydrocarbon releases, maximizing equipment uptime and ensuring quality projects are delivered to schedule and budget.
Mechanical engineers support our operations and projects around the world. Some work in project teams with major contractors, ensuring the correct selection, specification and construction of mechanical equipment and systems. Others help to build new facilities or modify existing assets, or work within operations to develop and implement maintenance programmes, monitoring equipment performance and investigating operational difficulties. Mechanical engineers also work as technical specialists, advising operations and projects on particular aspects of mechanical engineering. Not to mention their work with a broad range of mechanical equipment, such as gas turbines, compressors, heaters, vessels and piping, as well as all aspects of its design. Working with the latest technology and some of the brightest minds in the industry, this area upholds the very highest standards of mechanical integrity.
From the day you start, you’ll be involved in real projects. As a mechanical engineer, you could find yourself:
From assuring mechanical integrity at the development phase of a project, to ensuring that the correct equipment is specified and is fit for purpose, you’ll have access to all of the different areas of engineering you want to explore. This includes mechanical design, technology development, construction projects and rotating equipment. As for where you go once your graduate programme’s finished, that’s largely up to you. We’ll encourage you to expand your mechanical engineering skills in exciting roles in projects and operations; building a career that you can be proud of.
This programme ensures quality experience gained in a real role in operations or projects, where you’ll gain hands-on experience of facility operation and maintenance, and exposure to creating a new facility and the requirements of delivering a major project.
