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Research & Technology Group
Job Description:
Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner.
Pangbourne This is an exciting opportunity to join the Castrol Technology Team, working at the forefront of advanced motor sport fuels while inputting a strategic view on global fuel technology for the wider Castrol business. Based within the Motorsport Technology Team, you will provide expert technical knowledge on next-generation, high-performance fuels and components for Castrol and its motor sport partners. You will also inform the business on regional fuel specifications and deliver strategic insights on how evolving fuel regulations, legislations, and technologies may influence and impact future powertrain and lubricant solutions, helping both our internal participants and external partners achieve their goals.
What does the day to day look like? You will combine experienced guidance for motor sport fuel programmes with strategic responsibilities for informing the Castrol lubricants business. Your primary focus will be to shape the future strategy and define the optionality for motor sport fuels by advancing renewable raw-material availability and sourcing, seeing opportunities for implementation of new data tools, initiating R&D programmes, and providing overall technical knowledge.
Acting as a trusted subject matter authority to the teams OEM Project Leaders, you will guide innovation and enable future capabilities across the motor sport fuel portfolio. The role requires close collaboration with the Senior Advisor for Automotive Technology and the wider Castrol Technology Team to ensure global fuel standards and their future evolution are fully considered when forming near and long-term strategies.
You will collaborate extensively with a broad range of internal and external partners.
Key Responsibilities:
Guide future motor sport fuel formulation strategy and optionality grounded on current and emerging fuel technology and regulatory requirements. Source, investigate and develop fuel components for the motor sport development team, targeting long-term performance opportunities aligned to motor sport regulations. Building and maintaining relationships with suppliers of novel renewable fuel components. Display leadership behaviours, deputising for the Team Leader when required, managing tasks such as budgeting and forecasting, and driving the team to innovate through new R&D initiatives.
Provide expert knowledge on novel combustion technology and motor sport fuel formulation to meet and exceed Castrols partners performance expectations. Find opportunities to apply advanced computational modelling techniques and lead projects to implement them. Oversee operational delivery to legacy motor sport partners, including blending, product approval, and timely dispatch, ensuring consistent quality and compliance with established standards. Coach and mentor technologists, providing technical leadership to colleagues across the Motorsport Technology Team.
Ensure the continued technical support and operational delivery of specialised Castrol fuel solutions for key non-racing partners, including overseeing blending, product validation, and timely dispatch to maintain quality, compliance, and performance standards. Represent Castrol in technical and regulatory forums and conferences related to fuel technology. Assess and communicate the impact that evolving global fuel technology trends, regulatory changes, sustainability initiatives, and OEM developments will have on propulsion and lubricant technology and provide insights to lubricant product development projects and OEM partnerships.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams in creation of supply agreements / contracts and aligning technical guidance with colleagues to focus on research and development, product stewardship, legal, and marketing. What do we want to see from you! Essential Degree or equivalent experience in Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, or related technical field, with a Masters/PhD qualification or additional relevant industry certifications will be preferred.
Expert-level knowledge and extensive experience in the formulation, development and testing of fuels and mobility products, spanning combustion, combustion engine technology, hybrids, and emerging powertrain technologies. Proven experience leading R&D projects focused on renewable or sustainable fuels, with strong knowledge of novel, sustainable fuel-production technologies. Deep understanding of vehicle propulsion and calibration technology, and the ability to translate this into impacts on…
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