Lead Process Engineer

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