Lead Process Engineer (Contract)
Location: London (Hybrid, minimum 3 days in office)
Contract Type: Contract (Outside IR35)
Travel: Quarterly overseas travel required (all travel and accommodation covered)
Key Responsibilities
Lead process engineering on upstream development and optimisation projects
Identify and evaluate production improvement opportunities
Drive debottlenecking and facility optimisation work
Produce and review key process deliverables
Review vendor packages and contractor deliverables
Work closely with operations to improve facility performance
Present technical recommendations to stakeholders
Support project planning, scheduling and reporting
Requirements
10+ years' upstream oil & gas process engineering experience
Background in production optimisation or brownfield projects
Experience across conceptual, FEED and detailed design phases
Strong process simulation skills (UniSim, Flaresim or similar)
Confident leading technical scopes independently
Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
Knowledge of international engineering standards
Willingness to travel internationally each quarter and able to pass offshore or overseas medicals