Lead Application Engineer - Drill Bits

Lead Application Engineer- Drill Bits

Do you enjoy taking ownership of projects to ensure success?

Are you passionate about being part of a successful team?

Be part of a successful team!

A leader in the oilfield services industry. Baker Hughes offers opportunities for qualified people who want to grow in our high-performance organization. Our leading technologies and our ability to apply them safely and effectively create value for our customers and shareholders.

Partner with the best

The Lead Applications Engineer ensures Baker Hughes can deliver flawless execution through involvement in pre-planning, job execution, and post-job analysis. This position delivers a technical job program or application design that maximizes our opportunity to meet the job objectives in line with the contract terms and conditions. This position works seamlessly together with the Service Delivery Coordinators and other resources across organizational boundaries to ensure all aspects and constraints of the applications are understood and have been considered. Providing technical leadership and defining, developing, and evolving software in a fast paced and agile development environment using the latest software development technologies and infrastructure

As a Lead Application Engineer- Drill Bits, you will be responsible for

• Ensuring compliance with manage the Job Cycle (MtJC) process
• Working with the assigned Service Delivery Coordinator/Salesperson to understand the client’s well construction or production objectives as well as the commercial terms for Baker Hughes (i.e. outcome based contract, line item contract, etc.)
• Performing offset job analysis and product/service specific engineering modelling calculations to understand application hazards and incident potential
• Working together with all disciplines and stakeholders to ensure all aspects and constraints of the application and suggested products/services have been considered
• Designing a job program, including risk mitigation plans and contingency plans, that can meet the client’s objective(s), maximizing revenue potential and ensuring future job assignments for Baker Hughes
• Working with the assigned Service Delivery Coordinator/Salesperson to ensure any risk of not meeting the client’s objective is communicated to the client using the appropriate channels/processes for the respective client
• Accurately documenting any calculations/simulations/plan revision and/or changes during the project cycles for visibility to dependent teams and audit purposes
• Providing on-demand support in accordance with product portfolio or on-call schedule for job execution
• Comparing job as-planned versus job as-executed, document any lessons learned and develop recommendations for further improvements to procedures to ensure continuous improvement takes place
• Working on Field Incidents related to products/services
• Participating in Incident Investigations when required, ensuring the end to end process is considered, (including job planning, preparation, and execution), when determining incident root cause(s) alongside appropriate corrective actions
• Ensuring timely incident management to enable fast customer issue resolution and cash collection
• Advising on product improvement opportunities for repetitive component/product failures
• Providing sales support and product application recommendations
• Handling special projects as required. Ensuring team receives consistent messages and has clear understanding of business direction, strategy and results

Fuel your passion

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have bachelor's degree with 5 plus years of experience in drill bit application engineering.
• Excellent leadership, strong interpersonal, influencing and planning skills
• Ability to be on call outside of normal business hours
• Ability to work in a global matrix organization.
• Excellent communication and presentation skill.
• Strong organizational, analytical and problem solving skills.
• Must have the ability to travel (potential for travel to rig sites, customer facilities, meetings, training, etc.)

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

Working with us

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.

Working for you

Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow, we know we have to push the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us, and you can expect:

• Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities
• Comprehensive private medical care options
• Safety net of life insurance and disability programs
• Tailored financial programs
• Additional elected or voluntary benefits

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