The DFX Engineer will lead the integration of Design-for-X principles into Weatherford’s product development lifecycle, ensuring that new designs are optimized across manufacturing, supply chain, reliability, and serviceability dimensions. This role is critical to enhancing product performance, reducing lifecycle costs, and accelerating time-to-market for Weatherford’s global portfolio.
Responsibilities
Safety & Compliance:
- Uphold the highest standards of safety, ethics, and quality in all engineering activities.
- Ensure that all product development and updates comply with company HSE policies, industry regulations, and quality management systems.
- Proactively foster a strong safety culture and always insist on ethical conduct and adherence to standards.
Design For Manufacturing (DFM)
- Ensure designs are optimized for manufacturability by simplifying geometries, standardizing components, and aligning with internal and external process capabilities. Collaborate with manufacturing teams to reduce lead times, minimize waste, and improve production efficiency.
Design For Supply Chain (DfSC)
- Integrate supply chain considerations into design decisions, including material availability, supplier capabilities, logistics constraints, and cost optimization. Work with sourcing and procurement teams to ensure designs support scalable and resilient supply chains.
Design For Reliability (DfR)
- Apply reliability engineering tools such as FMEA, DRBFM, and fault tree analysis to identify and mitigate failure modes early in the design process. Ensure designs meet reliability goals aligned with customer expectations and field conditions.
Design For Assembly (DFA)
- Simplify assembly processes by reducing part count, using modular designs, and ensuring ease of alignment and fastening.
Design For Testing (DfT)
- Embed testability into designs to enable efficient validation, diagnostics, and quality assurance during production and field deployment.
Design For Serviceability
- Ensure that products are easy to maintain, repair, and upgrade in the field, minimizing downtime and service costs.
Design For Safety & Compliance
Incorporate hazard identification and risk mitigation strategies early in the design phase to meet HSE and regulatory standards
Skills And Competencies
- Leadership & Decision-Making: Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to make effective, timely decisions and judgments independently. Capable of setting a clear vision for the team and motivating others to achieve goals.
- Communication & Teamwork: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across all levels of the organization and in cross-functional teams. Able to clearly convey expectations and technical information to team members, stakeholders, and clients.
- Technical Problem-Solving: Strong analytical mindset and problem-solving ability in the engineering domain. Adept at diagnosing complex issues and guiding teams to innovative, practical solutions.
- Project Management & Organization: Exceptional project management skills, including planning, scheduling, and prioritization. Highly organized and detail-oriented, with a proven ability to manage multiple projects and meet tight deadlines without sacrificing quality.
- Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Innovative thinker who proactively challenges established practices and embraces new ideas. Proven ability to drive process improvements and encourage creative technical solutions, keeping the organization at the forefront of technology.
- Technical Knowledge & Standards: Strong foundation in engineering principles and familiarity with relevant national/international design standards. Keeps technical skills up to date and maintains awareness of emerging tools, technologies, and best practices.
- Safety & Quality Focus: Deep commitment to product quality and workplace safety. Understands and implements quality assurance processes and safe work practices in all engineering activities. Sets high expectations for compliance with safety rules, regulatory standards, and ethical guidelines.
- Financial Acumen: Good understanding of budgeting, cost control, and resource allocation in an engineering context5. Ability to develop business cases for projects, manage departmental budgets, and analyse financial impacts of engineering decisions.
- Adaptability: Able to adapt to changing project needs and priorities. Remains calm under pressure and can redirect efforts to address unexpected challenges or critical field issues. Self-motivated and capable of working with minimal supervision while guiding a team through change.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, or a related field.Minimum of 12 years of relevant engineering experience in product design and development, preferably in oilfield services or industrial equipment.Proven expertise in applying DFX methodologies across complex engineering projects.Proficiency in CAD tools (e.g., Creo, Pro/E), PLM systems (e.g., Windchill), and reliability analysis software.Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, supply chain dynamics, and reliability engineering
Preferred
Master’s or Ph.D. degree in Engineering or a related technical field.Familiarity with downhole tools, drilling systems, Well completion equipment, would be beneficial.Process & Quality Systems: Experience with quality frameworks and methodologies such as ISO 9001 in an engineering context. Knowledge of Six Sigma, Lean Engineering, or continuous improvement programs in product development is desirable.A record of innovation evidenced by patents, technical publications, or successful implementation of new technologies in products is valued.
About Us
Weatherford is a leading global energy services company. Our world-class experts partner with customers to optimize their resources and realize the full potential of their assets. Across our operating locations, including manufacturing, research and development, service, and training facilities, operators choose us for strategic solutions that add efficiency, flexibility, and responsibility to any energy operation.When you join Weatherford, you instantly feel connected to something bigger – a community that is grounded by our core values and driven to create innovative solutions for our customers. We celebrate each other’s successes, grow together, and learn from each other constantly. Individually, we are impressive. Together, we are unstoppable. We are One Weatherford.Weatherford is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
