Delivery Lead, Energy Storage Systems

Entity:
Innovation & Engineering
Job Family Group:
IT&S Group
Job Description:
Our purpose is reimagining energy for people and our planet. We want to help the world reach net zero and improve people’s lives.
The Advanced Energy Solutions (AES) team within Applied Sciences has been established to drive bp’s research, development, and innovation agenda in the spheres of electrification, energy management and energy systems integration. The team’s purpose, in service of bp’s growth engine businesses, is to position bp to win in these areas by ensuring that bp builds the right key capabilities, places the right technology bets, and owning the effort of combining new and emerging energy technologies and business models to a pre-scale stage.
The Delivery Lead is responsible for driving, exploring, and implementing the solutions through innovation pilots, proof of concepts, pre-scale commercialisation and business development activities. The successful candidate demonstrates the strong ownership of the projects to ensure the successful delivery and to define the use case in various BESS application scenarios. The role requires the candidate to be a good collaborator with the engagement of multiple functions and business collaborators across the group.
Responsibilities: Ownership of key work packages across multiple Energy Storage pilots and pre-scale projects, ensuring alignment to safety, performance and reliability standards.
Delivery planning and Execution Coordination: Own the elicitation of business requirements, documentation of functional requirements, and development of comprehensive delivery plans for battery Energy Storage Systems.Produce standardized solutions specifications in line with the project use case, and overall requirements.Lead 3rd party partners and OEM relationships and work closely with procurement teams to optimize efficiencies through the delivery.Stakeholder Management: Identify relevant collaborators and coordinate across internal teams, external contractors, utilities, local authorities, equipment suppliers and ensure alignment throughout the project delivery lifecycle.Technical Governance and Oversight: Apply an understanding of Energy Storage (battery) technologies, use cases, and applications areas (EV charging, Microgrid) plus experience in project delivery coordination to:Elaborate and refine delivery schedules, solution charter, and project/equipment costs (if applicable) to make sure a lean but practicable solution with an acceptable risk profile is delivered.Conduct technical feasibility studies, risk assessments, and other forms of technical due diligence (FATs, SATs) at relevant achievements within the project.Up-to-date knowledge on applicable international and regional (EMEA) standards for the design, and full life cycle delivery of battery Energy Storage Systems.Risks, Issues and Opportunities Management: Implement effective procedures and own the identification and cataloging of risks, issues and opportunities, while ensuring adequate interface to cascade inwards to the AES team, as well as upwards into the relevant aggregate project, program, and regional registers.Reporting, Documentation and Findings Management: Proactively generate content, and all relevant delivery documentation progress, and highlights are available to relevant partners.About you:
A degree in an Engineering (preferably an Electrical, Mechanical, Renewable Energy, or Construction Management).Relevant Project Management certification is desirable.Experience (5+ years) in the design and delivery of power systems (preferably battery Energy Storage Systems within the EMEA region).Resilient, result-oriented, with ability to lead the multiple projects in a complex organization environment, and influence within cross-functional teams. Independent, agile, and autonomic.So, if you are looking for an exciting and purposeful challenge in solving some of the planet’s biggest problems, there is no time like now! Why Join our team?
At bp, we provide an excellent working environment and employee 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.
We support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and exciting environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to crafting an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.
There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are significant, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and others benefits.
Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future.
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Travel Requirement
Negligible 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:
Agility core practices, Analytics, Business Analysis, Coaching, Collaboration, Configuration management and release, Digital Project Management, Documentation and knowledge sharing, Facilitation, Information Security, Mentoring, Metrics definition and instrumentation, Risk Management, Service operations and resiliency, Stakeholder Management, Supplier Relationship Management, System Design
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