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