Junior Assets Engineer

About

Description

The Junior Assets Engineer supports bp Southern Africa’s retail asset safety and integrity agenda by helping turn operational risk insight into practical action. The role contributes to the systematic reduction of asset integrity, operational, and major accident risks, including Loss of Primary Containment (LOPC), through data analysis, incident learning, action tracking, and close collaboration with key technical and operational stakeholders. Working closely with HSSE, Maintenance, Engineering, Construction, Dealers, and Contractors, the Junior Assets Engineer helps maintain robust safety barriers, improve compliance, strengthen asset integrity performance, and support safe and reliable operations across the retail network.

Responsibilities

• Collect, validate, and analyse asset integrity and HSSE data, including LOPC indicators, to identify trends, emerging risks, and improvement opportunities across the retail network.
• Translate data insights into clear problem statements, practical recommendations, and risk-based priorities for the Assets Integrity Engineer and relevant stakeholders.
• Support incident and near-miss investigations by gathering evidence, reviewing facts, analysing causal factors, and contributing to root cause assessments in line with required standards.
• Track corrective and preventive actions through to closure, verify effectiveness where required, and help embed lessons learned to prevent recurrence and reduce operational risk.
• Work with Maintenance, HSSE, Construction, Design and Engineering, Dealers, and Contractors to coordinate agreed risk-reduction actions and support consistent execution of safety-critical controls.
• Maintain clear action trackers, including owners, due dates, status updates, supporting evidence, and escalation points, to ensure actions are completed and sustained.

Qualifications

• Mechanical Engineering,
• Civil Engineering
• Industrial Engineering,

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