VP Construction & Maintenance

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Job Description

Job Family Group: Retail Group

Job Description:

About us

Our purpose is to bring together people, energy and markets to power and navigate a changing world. In a time of constant change and possibility we need new talent to pursue commercial opportunities, fueled by world-class insight and expertise. We’re always striving for more innovative digital solutions, sustainable outcomes and closer collaboration across our company and beyond, and you could be part of that too. Together we continue to grow as the world’s leading energy company!

Role Purpose

As Vice President, Construction and Maintenance, you will lead the end-to-end construction, maintenance and facilities agenda across a large-scale, multi-site retail and travel center portfolio. This role is accountable for ensuring bp’s physical network is safe, reliable, operationally resilient, cost-effective and positioned to support long-term commercial growth.

You will oversee construction project delivery, capital planning, maintenance strategy, facilities reliability, contractor performance, repair and maintenance spend, and the execution of site investment programs. Working closely with Operations, Merchandising, Food, Fuel, Real Estate, Finance, Procurement, HSSE, Legal and Technology leaders, you will ensure construction and maintenance priorities are aligned to enterprise strategy, customer experience, operational needs and financial commitments.

This role requires strong enterprise leadership across a complex asset base where decisions directly impact safety, customer experience, uptime, brand standards, capital efficiency and field execution. You will establish clear governance, decision rights, performance routines and accountability mechanisms so that construction and maintenance work is prioritized, delivered and sustained with rigor.

You will also play a critical leadership role in modernizing how construction and maintenance capabilities support the business. This includes improving project delivery, strengthening preventative maintenance programs, driving vendor and contractor accountability, creating clearer insight to asset performance and maintenance spend, and partnering across the organization to ensure physical site investments generate measurable value.

Key Accountabilities

Construction strategy and capital program delivery

• Own the construction strategy and capital delivery roadmap across the assigned retail and travel center network, ensuring projects are aligned to enterprise priorities, customer needs, safety requirements and financial returns.
• Lead the planning and execution of new builds, remodels, refreshes, major site investments, food and merchandising projects, fuel infrastructure activity, facility upgrades and other construction programs.
• Establish disciplined governance for project prioritization, scope control, schedule management, budget management, risk mitigation and collaborator decision-making.
• Ensure construction projects are delivered safely, efficiently and in compliance with bp standards, regulatory requirements, permitting expectations and applicable site operating constraints.
• Partner with Real Estate, Operations, Merchandising, Food, Fuel, Finance and Strategy teams to sequence capital work in a way that optimizes commercial value, minimizes disruption and supports long-term network growth.

Maintenance, reliability and asset performance

• Lead the maintenance strategy for the physical asset base, ensuring sites are safe, reliable, guest-ready and able to support consistent operational execution.
• Build and strengthen preventative maintenance, reactive maintenance, asset reliability and facilities performance programs to reduce downtime, improve customer experience and manage total cost of ownership.
• Create access to maintenance spend, recurring failure points, asset lifecycle risks and operational difficulties so the business can make informed investment and repair decisions.
• Drive improvement in work order management, response times, vendor performance, field communication and issue escalation across the maintenance ecosystem.
• Ensure maintenance priorities support safe operations, site uptime, brand standards, food and fuel offer execution, and the overall customer and guest experience.

Contractor, vendor and partner management

• Oversee contractor, vendor and service provider performance across construction, maintenance, facilities and related project activity.
• Set clear expectations for safety, quality, cost, timing, compliance, service levels and issue resolution.
• Partner with Procurement, Legal, HSSE and Finance to ensure supplier strategies, contracts, controls and performance routines are fit for purpose and support business outcomes.
• Strengthen contractor accountability through performance scorecards, governance forums, partner concern routines and corrective action plans.
• Develop a vendor ecosystem that can support speed, consistency, quality and scalability across a geographically dispersed network.

Operational partnership and field execution

• Serve as the senior leader accountable for connecting construction and maintenance decisions with operating realities in the field.
• Partner closely with Operations and site leadership to prioritize work, manage disruption, resolve issues and ensure projects and maintenance activity support the needs of customers, team members and operators.
• Establish clear communication routines so field leaders understand planned work, project impacts, maintenance priorities, critical issue paths and expected outcomes.
• Support business continuity, emergency response and critical issue resolution when asset, maintenance or construction matters affect operations.
• Ensure construction and maintenance teams operate with a practical understanding of site-level execution, labor realities, guest impact, safety expectations and commercial trade-offs.

Financial, governance and risk management

• Own financial rigor across construction and maintenance budgets, including capital planning, repair and maintenance spend, forecasting, tracking, reporting and performance management.
• Drive transparency to project costs, maintenance trends, vendor spend, change orders, capital efficiency and return on investment.
• Establish governance routines that support disciplined decision-making, clear accountability, and the timely surfacing of risks, trade-offs, and barriers.
• Ensure compliance with bp policies, HSSE requirements, control expectations, permitting requirements, regulatory obligations and ethical standards.
• Use data, analytics and performance insights to find opportunities to reduce cost, improve reliability, prioritize capital investment and strengthen execution.

Team leadership and capability building

• Build, lead and develop a high-performing construction and maintenance organization with clear accountabilities, strong technical capability and a shared commitment to safety, reliability and operational excellence.
• Clarify roles, decision rights and ways of working across direct reports, matrixed partners, field teams, contractors and enabling functions.
• Create a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, collaboration and disciplined execution.
• Strengthen succession, leadership capability and technical expertise across project management, facilities, maintenance, reliability, vendor management and capital delivery.
• Lead through influence across a complex organization, aligning senior collaborators around priorities, trade-offs and execution requirements.

What you will need to be successful

• Significant senior leadership experience in construction, maintenance, facilities, engineering, capital p