Standards Specialist
About the role
We are seeking a highly motivated and technically astute professional who thrives in a multifaceted, fast-paced environment. This role is responsible for establishing, implementing, and continuously refining the company's Operating Management System, including operational policies, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and guidance documents.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with office- and field-based production teams, collaborators, and leaders to understand business and operational needs, then develop, refine, and implement standard operating procedures, policies, and guidance documents that cover both field and office activities.
- Engage proactively across the business to maintain, strengthen, and continuously improve the Operating Management System, identifying gaps and driving systemic enhancements that promote safety, standardization, and efficiency.
- Support and streamline the management of change processes for policies, procedures, and guidance documents, ensuring timely, effective, and well-documented updates.
- Collaborate with the Investigation Team to analyze incidents and implement corrective actions on a systemic basis, embedding lessons learned into standards and practices.
- Work with the Process Safety Team to assess risks and enhance policies, procedures, and guidance documents, ensuring controls are practical, robust, and aligned with operational realities.
- Proactively engage key stakeholders to identify management system gaps, develop creative corrective action plans, and drive them to timely completion while supervising progress and measuring impact.
- Support the ongoing management and optimization of the enterprise-wide document management system to ensure accessibility, version control, and usability for all users.
- Cultivate a culture of teamwork and continuous learning by actively sharing lessons learned across disciplines and business functions, then embedding them into BP standards to achieve organization-wide improvement.
- Demonstrate high initiative and ownership by working towards superior outcomes, seeking opportunities to over deliver, and applying imaginative problem-solving when established methods are insufficient to meet safety, efficiency, or reliability goals.
Requirements
- 4 years minimum experience in oil and gas preferred, not required
- Bachelor of science degree, preferably engineering
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to work with multi-functional office & field-based teams in-person and remotely
- Motivated, self-starter enthusiastic about affecting change to drive upstream innovation
- Ability to collaborate and build alignment with individuals and within multi-discipline teams
Qualifications
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to work with multi-functional office & field-based teams in-person and remotely
- Motivated, self-starter enthusiastic about affecting change to drive upstream innovation
- Ability to collaborate and build alignment with individuals and within multi-discipline teams
Skills
- Analytical Thinking
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Continuous Improvement
- Courage
- Creativity and Innovation
- Curiosity
- Customer quality requirements
- Decision Making
- Ensuring quality
- Ethical judgement
- Excellence
- Facilitation
- Influencing
- Investigations
- Knowledge Sharing
- Listening
- Problem Solving
- Quality assurance and quality control
- Quality Audit
- Quality conformance
- Quality in Design
- Quality Management
- Quality Management Systems
Benefits
How much do we pay (Base)? $115,000 - $145,000
Note that the pay range listed for this position is a good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible base compensation at the time of posting.
Schedule
Up to 50% travel should be expected with this role
Pay
$115,000 - $145,000
Benefits
- Access to health, vision and dental insurance
- Flexible working schedule
- Paid time off policy
- Discretionary annual bonus program
- Long-term incentive program
- A generous 401K matching program
Legal Disclaimer
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us. If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.