The Cargo Assurance Specialist is part of the ST&S RPTAP Cargo Assurance team, which is responsible for minimizing cargo losses, preventing quality degradation, and conducting cargo inspector audits related to HSE and operational issues. The team also provides global guidance and assurance on the suitability and efficiency of transportation, storage, and refining assets currently usedor potentially used in the futureby ST&S RPT, including global LNG assets.
Role Synopsis
The team consists of industry guides specializing in the quality and quantity management of hydrocarbons and biofuels. The team acts as a central support function, handling all quality and quantity-related queries, reducing cargo losses, leading product quality, ensuring compliance with legislation and industry standards, and performing HSE and operational audits of cargo inspectors.
In addition to operational responsibilities, the team plays a global advisory role on the suitability and performance of transportation, storage, and refining assets used by ST&S RPTE worldwide.
Key Accountabilities
- Provide timely, accurate, and commercially sound technical guidance on all cargo matters, including tank preparation, additive treatment, and measures to ensure cargo remains fully on specification.
- Develop and maintain inspection quality standards and globally aligned Cargo Assurance (CA) procedures, providing guide support in inspection, measurement, regulatory compliance, and HSE.
- Create, update, and lead test slates within the Cargo Management Online Portal (CMOP) to meet bench requirements. Review and approve inspection company invoices in CMOP to ensure accuracy and commercial integrity.
- Superintend cargo transfers in the field as needed, providing technical assurance and guidance in selecting and evaluating thirdparty subcontractors.
- Identify and assess potential quality and quantity risks arising from interfacing teams (e.g., Advanced Fuels), offering early consultation and embedding appropriate mitigation measures.
- Support Trading Operations in handling or contesting thirdparty claims, working closely with Trading Operators, ST&S RPT Contracts, and ST&S RPT Legal to protect BP's commercial and operational interests.
- Lead structured product quality incident investigations, delivering rootcause analysis and actionable recommendations to prevent recurrence and improve operational integrity.
- Build strong working relationships and credibility with trading benches, influencing operators, team leaders, and traders on technical matters.
- Collaborate actively with the global Cargo Assurance network and provide technical support to other BP businesses as needed.
- Contribute to BP's internal product quality governance forums, ensuring ongoing oversight of regulatory, compliance, and specification requirements.
- Deliver structured training and regulatory updates to trading benches on product quality, shipboard operations, and terminal operations.
- Provide technical guidance for new business origination and new storage contracts.
- Ensure adherence to BP policies, ST&S governance requirements, HSSE standards, and the BP Code of Conduct, fostering a culture of safe and ethical operations.
- Ensure thirdparty contractors meet BP's policies, standards, and Code of Conduct requirementsparticularly HSSEthrough thorough audits and performance reviews, supporting an incidentfree or equivalent experience ship/shore interface.
- Represent BP in global industry forums and standards bodies related to oil and gas measurement, testing, and operations, ensuring relevant insights are shared with internal partners.
- Undertake up to 15% travel for audits, inspections, and operational attendance. The role requires successful completion of the Fitness-to-Task medical test.
Recruiting Criteria
Essential Education
- Degree or equivalent experience or equivalent professional qualification in oil/gas tanker operations, surveying/inspection, chemistry, chemical engineering fielded technical rigor (preferred).
Essential Experience
- Shown hands-on experience in oil analysis and laboratory testing procedures.
- Significant industry experience across technical, operational, and commercial aspects of oil and gas cargoes.
- Strong commercial awareness with the ability to balance technical risk, operational practicality, and business outcomes.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and partner engagement skills, with the ability to influence internal and external partners.
- Experience working effectively across multiple geographies, cultures, and time zones.
- Strong problemsolving capability and the ability to apply sound technical judgment in complex or timecritical situations.
- Ability to operate effectively within a small, highly specialized team and collaborate with the global Cargo Assurance community.
- Experience in, or strong exposure to, an oil trading environment (preferred).
Essential Technical & Physical Competencies
- Fuels quality and laboratory results interpretation
- Shipping and terminal operations
- Quantity determination and measurement
- Regulatory and standards interpretation
- Contract interpretation
- Refinery processes and operations
At bp, we provide the following environment and benefits to you:
- A company culture where we respect our diverse and unified teams, where we are proud of our achievements and where fun and the demeanor of giving back to our environment are highly valued
- Possibility to join our social communities and networks
- Learning opportunities and other development opportunities to craft your career path
- Life and health insurance, medical care package
- And many other benefits.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform crucial job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
