Aviation Quality Manager

Sunbury-On-Thames, England, United Kingdom

7/24/2025

Entity:

Technology

Job Family Group:

Research & Technology Group

Job Description:

Fuels & Low Carbon Technology (F&LCT) is a diverse team of over 300 technologists, scientists, and engineers driving innovation to support bp’s Fuels, Refining, Bioenergy, and Hydrogen businesses. We also back the Technology group through Innovation Management, Modelling, Digital Science, and academic research. Within F&LCT, the Refining and Advanced Fuels Technology (R&AFT) team of 120+ professionals collaborate closely with business units to ensure fuel quality throughout the entire supply chain—from refineries and third-party suppliers to customers and product lines. As the fuel landscape evolves towards the energy transition, we develop differentiated fuel products, including an increasing portfolio of bio-based fuels, and lead technical programs to safely integrate renewable feedstocks into refinery operations.

We are excited to offer the position of Aviation Quality Manager. In this role, you will lead a team of Aviation Fuel Technologists overseeing Product Quality (PQ) and Research & Development efforts covering conventional and low carbon renewable aviation fuels. Your focus will be on compliance, customer-centric quality assurance, and advancing innovative, sustainable fuel solutions. You will report directly to the Senior Manager of Global Aviation & Product Quality Assurance.

As Aviation Quality Manager, you will be a key member of a global team responsible for ensuring that aviation fuel meets stringent quality and safety standards from manufacture to aircraft wingtip. You will lead your team in collaborating with Technology and Business groups to maintain fuel quality across worldwide supply chains and support bp’s net zero goals through R&D initiatives.

Accountabilities will include:

Technical Services and Quality Assurance:

• Management and implementation of product quality (PQ) standards, policies & procedures for operations in all Aviation & bp performance units to ensure compliance with bp and industry regulations.
• Manage PQ problem resolution across the supply chain, by supporting global PQ technologists and authorities in all aspects of aviation fuel quality assurance and control.
• Manage and oversee quality assurance, through periodic global monitoring plan assessments including inspections of supply locations, laboratories, and operational sites to verify conformance with standards and procedures, performance reporting and root cause analysis.
• Liaise with bp & 3rd party refineries, pipelines, shipping, supply, and logistic groups to coordinate and implement aviation fuel quality initiatives and fuel specification changes.
• Development and maintenance of PQ training materials, providing global PQ training to all relevant bp business units and or 3rd parties as required.
• Lead and contribute to the Product Quality Network (PQN) to discuss PQ issues, share lessons learned and coordinate implementation of new initiatives across R&AFT and C&P Aviation.
• Management of PQ incident database, review of PQ incident trends, providing trend & emerging risk data to relevant internal PQ forums.
• Represent bp in external technical bodies (e.g., EI JIG, ASTM, AFC Exco) where specification and product handling issues are debated, ensuring bp are aware of impacts & changes.
  
  

Customer Differentiation:

• Leading C&P Aviation PQ Technical Service Agreements (TSA’s)
• Approval of new supply sources for conventional and renewable aviation fuel.
• Digital applications, lead in the simplification and improvements to e.g., assessment inspection and incident reporting.
  
  

Realising bp net zero ambitions:

• Lead in P&O bp refineries in SAF production via coprocessing.
• Lead in the participation of SAF Standalone Unit project, providing technical support for SAF production compliance & optimisation.
• Lead and influence in R&D activities to review new technology pathways, advanced feedstocks, and potential changes to Aviation industry specifications.
• Lead in providing technical support to T&S in SAF blending, product handling and supply.
• Keep a view on H2 and Electric Aviation technology development.
  
  

What You’ll Need to Succeed:

• Degree-qualified in Science or Engineering, preferably Chemistry or Process/Chemical Engineering.
• Expertise in petroleum fuels or the aviation industry, including fuel manufacture, distribution, engine use, laboratory testing, and quality assurance.
• Strong communication skills with an empathetic and collaborative approach.
• Proven ability to influence, solve problems under pressure, and drive change.
• Experience writing technical documentation and working within agile frameworks is a plus.
• Highly organized, with a bias for action and the ability to work cross-functionally across Technology, C&P, P&O, and ST&S teams.
  
  

This role provides exposure to the Technology, C&P, P&O and ST&S, providing the opportunity to create new networks, exposure to renewable fuels and support bp safety leadership principles through product quality compliance.

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 challenging 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 meaningful, 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 many others benefits.

Reinvent your career as you help our business meet the challenges of the future.

Apply now!

Travel Requirement

Up to 25% 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, Analytical Thinking, Bioprocess Design, Catalysis (Inactive), Chemical kinetic modelling, Communication, Creativity and Innovation, Curiosity, Experimental Design, Group Problem Solving, Industry technology knowledge, Intellectual Asset Management, Life cycle and circularity, Multi-physics modelling, New process technology scale-up, Novel process development, Pilot and demonstration plant operation, Presenting, Process Safety Engineering, Science and Technology Leadership, Scientific publication, Talent Matching, Technoeconomic evaluation of processes, Thermophysical modelling, Thought Leadership

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