Baker Hughes is inviting qualified candidates to apply for the position of Applications Engineer – DrillBit. The role is available in Lagos, Nigeria. This opportunity is ideal for engineering professionals who are passionate about delivering innovative energy solutions and supporting flawless project execution.
Company: Baker Hughes
Job Title: Applications Engineer – DrillBit
Location: Lagos, Nigeria / Luanda, Angola
Job Category: Services
Job ID: R165258
Employment Type: Full-time
Application Closing Date: Not Specified
About the Role
Do you love leading and motivating others to achieve a goal?
Do you relish the prospect of working with cutting-edge energy products?
Partner with the Best
Baker Hughes stands as a leading global energy-technology company, delivering innovative solutions that make energy safer, cleaner, and more efficient across the entire value chain. Operating in more than 120 countries, the company blends deep industrial expertise with advanced engineering and digital technologies to support energy production, transformation, and decarbonization.
With over a century of heritage, Baker Hughes partners with customers in oil and gas, industrial sectors, and emerging energy markets to accelerate progress toward a more sustainable energy future.
Job Summary
The 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 opportunities to meet job objectives in line with the contract terms and conditions. The successful candidate will work seamlessly with Service Delivery Coordinators and other resources across organizational boundaries to ensure all aspects and constraints of the applications are fully understood and considered.
Key Responsibilities
As an Applications Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Ensure compliance with the Manage the Job Cycle (MtJC) process.
- Work 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 (such as outcome-based contracts or line-item contracts).
- Perform offset job analysis and product/service-specific engineering modelling calculations to understand application hazards and incident potential.
- Work together with all disciplines and stakeholders to ensure all aspects and constraints of the application and suggested products/services have been considered.
- Design a job program, including risk mitigation plans and contingency plans, that meets the client’s objectives, maximizes revenue potential, and ensures future job assignments for Baker Hughes.
- Work 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 and processes.
- Accurately document calculations, simulations, plan revisions, and project changes during project cycles for visibility to dependent teams and audit purposes.
- Provide on-demand support in accordance with the product portfolio or on-call schedule for job execution.
- Compare jobs as planned versus jobs as executed, document lessons learned, and develop recommendations for continuous improvement.
- Work on field incidents related to products and services.
- Participate in incident investigations when required, ensuring the end-to-end process, including job planning, preparation, and execution, is considered when determining incident root causes and corrective actions.
- Ensure timely incident management to enable fast customer issue resolution and cash collection.
- Advise on product improvement opportunities for repetitive component or product failures.
- Provide sales support and product application recommendations.
- Perform product line-specific responsibilities where applicable.
- Handle special projects as required.
Requirements
To be successful in this role, you should have:
- Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics.
- Excellent leadership, interpersonal, influencing, and planning skills.
- Ability to be on call outside normal business hours.
- Ability to work in a global matrix organization.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Excellent organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to travel, including travel to rig sites, customer facilities, meetings, and training.
- Significant operational experience.
- Comfortable presenting in front of an audience of experienced peers.
- Ability to manage, develop, coach, and mentor teams across organizational boundaries.
- Ability to learn and use various computer tools to prepare data and visualizations for analysis.
- Ability to work independently.
- Must have completed NYSC.
Work in a Way That Works for You
Baker Hughes recognizes that everyone is different and that the way people want to work and perform at their best varies.
For this role, the company offers the following flexible working pattern:
- Flexible working hours, allowing employees to adjust the times they work during the day to suit their productivity and personal commitments.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should apply online through the link below:
Application Link:
https://careers.bakerhughes.com/global/en/job/BAHUGLOBALR165258EXTERNALENGLOBAL/Applications-Engineer-DrillBit
Application Closing Date: Not Specified.