Graduate-Upstream-Instrument and Control Engineer-AZ

Job Family Group:

• Business Support Group, Engineering Group
• Job Description:

Early Careers at bp

Looking to turn your career dreams into global impact? Explore graduate opportunities with bp. Here you get to work on challenging projects, learn from experts and mentors, and be part of a high-performing team from the get-go. You get the freedom to think boldly, the licence to innovate and the chance to grow in multiple directions. And you get supported, recognized and rewarded along the way.

Our Instrument & Control Engineering Graduate Programme

One Engineering is our early careers programme designed to create a pipeline of diverse professional engineers who are high-performers, have broad discipline experience, a transferable skills-set, leading through the energy transition, and solving the most complex problems of today and of the future. The program is 3 years, with either two 18-month or three 12-month rotations, designed to provide breadth of experience and build technical depth.

Early careers will follow a structured development offer to accelerate the acquisition of foundational technical skills, experience and knowledge, and application in the business world. The programme supports transition from university to discipline professional and, through our 'Elevate' training programme, provides a framework of ‘non-technical’ skills to support building personal effectiveness, helping you to grow both personally and professionally.

Early careers will build their experience through challenging development assignments, grow a toolkit of transferable skills for the future, and have a dedicated network of support, as well as a vibrant Early Careers community, to help them succeed.

Role and Responsibilities

Instrument and Controls include a range of engineering subdisciplines including instruments, process control, safety systems, measurements, communications and cyber security. It enables digitally secure, safe, reliable and optimal control of complex energy facilities, which include our oil and gas production facilities, pipelines, oil refineries, biofuels plants, green and blue hydrogen production, on-shore and off-shore wind, solar and integrated mobility solutions.

The instruments and protective systems role consist of three primary specialist areas including field instrumentation, safety instrumented systems (SIS), and fire and gas systems, all these systems playing critical roles in safe and reliable operations, environment and personnel protection. It is the control & automation engineer’s job to optimize production and enhance safety by making improvements to process control, as well as designing and maintaining the distributed control systems that house these controls. Operations critical telecommunications engineers enhance bp’s safety, security, communications, and operations in the field by engineering and supporting critical operational technology systems, connectivity and networks. The automation systems digital security role supports operations, projects and emerging technologies in understanding cyber security risks related to automation systems, developing solutions and processes to conform to bp requirements.

As a Graduate you could find yourself:

Working with the latest sensing, measurement & analysis instrument technologies; learning design and application of safety instrumented systems in production, refining, pipelines, carbon capture, hydrogen generation, biofuels and renewable energy facilities

Designing and building process plant control systems, which means incredible variety. One day you could be working out the best way to control a separation unit, the next you could be working on installing an advanced control system (a kind of autopilot) for oil and gas production.

Integrating instrument and protection systems for electric vehicles, battery charging and storage systems or working with miniature sensors to develop energy systems integrating wind, solar and green hydrogen energy.

Working with the latest wireless technology to support development and use of industrial IoT as we build new energy systems and modernize our legacy operations.

Working with an incredibly diverse and distributed team of experienced engineers with a global perspective. Instrumentation and Controls touch everything in bp to make our processes and systems operate safely and reliably.

Requirements

Azerbaijani citizenship

Relevant bachelor’s and/or master’s degree

2025, 2026 and 2027 academic year graduates are eligible to apply

CGPA 75% (2.5)

Specializations:

Engineering - Electrical/Electronic

Engineering - Instrument and Control

Engineering – Process Automation

• Important:
• You can apply to one role only!

Start Date

1st of September 2027

Travel Requirement:

• No travel is expected with this role
• Relocation Assistance:

• This role is not eligible for relocation
• Remote Type:

• This position is a hybrid of office/remote working
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