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