Lead Process Engineer (Contract)

Kintec Global Recruitment; Royal Borough of Greenwich; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Kintec Global Recruitment in London is seeking a Lead Process Engineer for a contract role. Hybrid work with a requirement to be in the office at least three days a week.

You will lead upstream development and optimisation projects, identify production improvements, and drive debottlenecking while collaborating with operations and vendors. The role requires extensive experience, strong communication, and willingness to travel internationally each quarter.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of upstream oil & gas process engineering experience.
• Experience with production optimisation or brownfield projects.
• Experience across conceptual, FEED and detailed design phases.
• Strong process simulation skills with UniSim or similar.

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

Process simulation

Stakeholder engagement

Upstream oil & gas

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

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