Intern programmes
Our internship programme is a chance to start learning and growing with us as you work on some of the most exciting and technically challenging projects our industry has to offer.
Intern programmes
Our paid internships offer invaluable real-world experience and take place during the summer for eight weeks. It is a talent pipeline for the following year’s graduate programme.
You’ll get involved in real projects and have a role of significant value, getting exposure to markets and stretch opportunities. Beyond that, your internship will use online and virtual learning, leveraging classroom and on-the-job training to give you the building blocks of a fulfilling career. And you won’t be doing it alone. We’ll assign you a buddy, one who can help you navigate the organization, give advice on your development and help you learn what it takes to achieve your goals.
Our Technical Solutions India (TSI) centre in Pune, aims to build on bp’s existing engineering and technical strengths to deliver high-quality services to its hydrocarbons and other businesses worldwide. TSI brings together diverse engineering capability to provide technical services across a range of areas including engineering, maintenance, optimization, data processes, projects and subsurface to deliver safe, affordable energy, while continuously innovating how we work. Our global subsurface solutions team delivers high-quality, high-impact, subsurface technical products to address prioritized business challenges across bp’s oil, gas and low carbon energy businesses.
The precise nature of your internship role and the projects you work on will be determined by your skills as well as the needs of the business, but your responsibilities should include:
- Working on projects and supporting your team to find the best solutions.
- Helping to maintain performance within your team and for bp.
- Building relationships within bp and with external partners, collaborating across functions, segments and teams to deliver excellence.
- Demonstrating drive and dedication through the bp beliefs with an emphasis on safety.
Technology supports bp’s purpose to help deliver energy to the world today and tomorrow. As an expert community of science, safety and security and digital specialists, our aim is to advance and protect bp against threats and attacks.
Technology is positioned as an engine for innovation across bp and plays a key role in driving value and returns.
Within technology, our one digital early careers programme provides a gateway for interns to discover a range of foundational experiences and an exciting and rewarding career in digital and technology.
What to expect:
- A comprehensive, fully supported eight-week intern experience, with events, assignments and learning opportunities.
- Global networking.
- Continuous support and feedback.
What we need from you:
- An open, inquisitive mind and a passion for working with the latest technology.
- A growth mindset and ability to innovate and grow and bring diversity of thought.
Our commercial discipline is integral to achieving bp’s purpose to deliver energy to the world today and tomorrow. This early careers programme represents bp's commercial ambitions across our business entities globally. It gives interns a breadth of opportunity to build their business skills and experiences, and to understand the complete commercial value chain across bp. As a commercial intern, you work on real-time projects over eight weeks within the customer & products (C&P) and gas & low carbon energy (G&LCE) businesses.
- C&P: one commercial early careers complete rotations across our customers & products businesses and gain experiences and exposure to our customer offer, commercial acumen and customer facing or commercial operations. You may have a rotation role, for example, in sales and marketing, supply chain management, logistics, retail operations, strategic planning or competitor intelligence.
- G&LCE: as part of the team that delivers value through our gas & low carbon energy portfolios, one commercial early careers work to support building and growing transition businesses and markets. Over the course of this assignments, interns will help drive new decarbonization technologies and capabilities, and maximize performance and value of our gas businesses.
In people, culture & communications (PC&C), our purpose is to discover, empower and care for brilliant people. We build and enable our culture, develop emotionally connected leaders and dynamic teams and help bp achieve our purpose to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow The PC&C discipline plays a critical part in supporting this, existing to ensure the right people, in the right roles, at the right time, who are aligned and contributing to their full potential for the success of bp. PC&C partners closely with bp businesses to deliver their priorities and to recruit, develop, deploy, reward and energise the talent they need.
At bp our P&C business partners are an integrated discipline. Movement between businesses, teams and projects takes place flexibly based on business need, activity flow and each partner's development needs and readiness for new experiences. We aim to provide broad learning opportunities in both standard partnering roles and project delivery.
