Lead Engineer - Services Engineering
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 10, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 10, 2026. Baker Hughes scores A on the Alion truth index.
Lead Engineer - Services Engineering
Do you enjoy being part of a team that provides high-quality services for our customers?
Are you passionate about delivering innovative engineering solutions that enhance equipment performance and reliability?
Join a team that delivers essential services
At Baker Hughes, our purpose is clear. We take energy forward, making it safer, cleaner, and more efficient for people and the planet. Our Services Engineering team supports customers by delivering refurbishment, upgrade, and lifecycle engineering solutions that maximize the value, reliability, and performance of critical oilfield equipment.
Join a collaborative team of engineers and technical specialists working across complex customer projects, driving operational excellence while delivering high-quality engineering solutions that support our customers' success.
Partner with the best
As a Lead Engineer - Services Engineering, you will be responsible for leading technical activities that contribute to the delivery, refurbishment, maintenance, upgrade, and ongoing support of products, solutions, and systems within the SP&S organisation. This role supports both Customer-Owned and Rental Equipment across a range of product lines, including Subsea Xmas Trees, Tubing Hangers and associated tooling, Completion and Workover Riser Systems, and Wellhead Tooling.
Acting as the technical focal point throughout the project lifecycle, you will manage engineering activities from purchase order receipt through execution and final delivery, ensuring customer requirements are met while maintaining Baker Hughes quality, safety, and operational standards. You will work closely with engineering, operations, supply chain, commercial teams, and customers to deliver innovative solutions, resolve technical challenges, and drive successful project outcomes.
As a Lead Engineer - Services Engineering, you will be responsible for:
- Interpreting customer technical specifications and leading design reviews to ensure customer requirements, technical risks, and lessons learned are fully captured and addressed.
- Developing conceptual designs, layouts, and engineering solutions in accordance with Baker Hughes Design Process Management (DPM) protocols.
- Creating layouts, specifying functional components, evaluating stack-ups, undertaking engineering calculations, developing assembly procedures, and supporting manufacturing and workshop activities.
- Producing detailed designs for manufacture, conducting design verification activities, and preparing documentation for design reviews, including tolerance studies, reliability assessments, failure analysis, and design-for-manufacture evaluations.
- Applying design-for-manufacture principles across machining, turning, milling, drilling, and welding processes to ensure efficient production and assembly.
- Leading refurbishment, repair, maintenance, and upgrade projects for production and intervention equipment.
- Managing projects through engineering execution while coordinating activities across engineering, operations, supply chain, and commercial teams to achieve key project milestones.
- Serving as the primary technical interface with customers throughout project execution, providing technical guidance and resolving engineering challenges.
- Producing and maintaining engineering documentation, drawings, bills of materials, and PLM records.
- Supporting workshop operations to ensure equipment progresses through refurbishment, testing, and delivery schedules.
- Supporting client operations, installation, commissioning, and post-delivery technical activities as required.
- Providing 24/7 on-call engineering support when required.
- Maintaining awareness of and ensuring compliance with relevant industry standards, including API 6A, API 17D, and API 17G.
Fuel your passion
To be successful in this role, you will:
- Hold a Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
- Demonstrate proficiency in CREO and Mathcad for engineering design and analysis activities.
- Have experience within the oil and gas industry, preferably supporting production, intervention, or completion equipment.
- Possess strong technical knowledge of equipment refurbishment, maintenance, engineering modifications, or lifecycle support.
- Have experience managing engineering projects from initiation through execution and delivery.
- Be able to coordinate multiple priorities and collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams.
- Demonstrate strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including customer-facing experience.
- Have the ability to interpret technical requirements and develop practical, high-quality engineering solutions.
Working with us
Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all 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. To keep moving forward, we continue to push the boundaries of innovation and reward those who embrace change and drive results. Join us, and you can expect:
- Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing initiatives
- Comprehensive private medical care options
- Life insurance and disability coverage programs
- Tailored financial and retirement programs
- Additional elected and voluntary benefits
- Professional development and career growth opportunities within a global organization