Lead Process Engineer (Contract)

Kintec Global Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 111,000 - 166,000; Part time

Job summary

Kintec Global Recruitment is seeking a Lead Process Engineer for a contract role in London. Hybrid: minimum 3 days in office.

The role leads upstream development and optimisation projects, driving debottlenecking and facility improvements, and coordinating with operations and vendors. International travel is quarterly and medicals will be arranged.

Qualifications

• 10+ years' upstream oil & gas process engineering experience.
• Experience in production optimisation or brownfield projects.
• Willingness to travel internationally each quarter and pass offshore medicals.

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.

Skills

Upstream oil & gas

Production optimisation

Brownfield projects

Conceptual design

FEED & Detailed design

Process simulation

Stakeholder engagement

International travel ability

Tools

UniSim

Flaresim

Job description

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