Inorganic Chemist

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.

Who we are

Fuels & Low Carbon Technology (F&LCT) is a global organization of more than 300 technologists, scientists, and engineers who develop groundbreaking solutions across bps Fuels, Refining, Bioenergy, and Hydrogen businesses. The organization also supports bp’s wider Technology function through innovation management, modelling, digital science, and academic research partnerships—providing the scientific and engineering foundation that enables bp’s low carbon and operational ambitions.

Within F&LCT, the Bioenergy & Hydrogen Technology (B&HT) team focuses on crafting and scaling technologies that unlock bp’s low carbon growth. The team advances pathways across bioenergy, biogas, SAF, hydrogen, and novel feedstocks, while working closely with bp businesses to ensure solutions meet real operational and commercial needs. B&HT plays a central role in defining bp’s technology direction for today’s energy needs as well as the energy transition by driving innovation from early-stage concepts through deployment ready solutions.

Job Purpose and primary objectives:

We are delighted to present this excellent opportunity for an Inorganic Chemist to join our global team of scientists who provide data and insight reaching across bp – from research and innovation into low carbon technologies, to critical business support for our global value chain.

The Applied Chemistry team works across multiple interfaces to meet business needs and identify opportunities where applied chemistry can add value. The team supports bp’s strategic framework across fuels (including biofuels), SAF, biogas, feedstocks, hydrogen, oil and gas, and crosscutting lowcarbon initiatives.

This role reports to the Inorganic Chemistry Lead.

Key responsibilities include:

• Deliver safe, standardsadherent experimental operations, contributing to the development of an HSSE expectations aligned with the bp's goals.
• Responsible for fundamental and applied studies in chemistry and catalysis to support technology deployed within the business and the appraisal of new processes of potential future interest to bp
• Lead experimental programmes in heterogeneous catalysis to develop new technology for conversion chemistry.
• Responsible for leading the design, execution, and interpretation of experimental work to deliver upon set objectives.
• Provide expertise in laboratory-scale evaluation and measurement and/or the application of innovative analytical techniques.
• Development of relevant in-house capability by identifying and implementing standard methodologies in chemistry, including evaluation from industry and academia.

Essential Criteria & Qualifications:

• PhD in Chemistry or a related field, or a Master’s/Bachelor’s degree with demonstrated relevant experience.
• Experience in chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, or related fields.
• Resourceful experimentalist with practical research experience in laboratory scale reaction testing equipment.
• Ability to work closely with technology colleagues to identify fundamental needs in chemistry, catalysis, modelling, and characterization, devise relevant approaches, and deliver/transfer results and insights to meet these needs.
• Knowledge of key catalyst characterization techniques and ability to interpret and apply results
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to contribute to team success by fostering learning, sharing ideas, and building capability.

Desirable Experience:

• Experience working with world class universities or third-party laboratories to support studies related to chemistry, catalysis, materials and/or digital tools for delivering robust and high-quality data used for making decisions.
• Experience of kinetics and kinetic modelling would be desirable but not essential.
• Experience in syngas or CO2 conversion chemistry or biofeedstocks.
• Experience across the areas of catalyst synthesis, characterization techniques and catalyst testing.Role & responsibilities

Preferred candidate profile