Industrial Products Technical Skills & Capabilities - Competency Program Manager

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Waygate Technologies team provides industry-leading products and services that optimize the inspection process. We help a diverse range of customers across the value chain to reduce operating costs and improve productivity

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As an Industrial Products Technical Skills & Capabilities - Competency Program Manager, you are developing, governing, and maintaining the competency, skills, and learning systems that support workforce capability across Industrial Products. You are building standardized competency frameworks, mapping skills to roles, and ensuring HRIS/LMS integrations support accurate capability data. You are leading reporting, analytics, compliance tracking, and system enhancements to give the business visibility into workforce capability and readiness. You are partnering with cross-functional teams to drive adoption, improve data quality, automate reporting, and introduce new digital tools that elevate the capability ecosystem.

As a Competency Program Manager, you are responsible for:

Competency & Skills Framework Governance

• Building, maintaining, and standardizing competency frameworks, skills libraries, and job to competency mappings, ensuring global usability and operational relevance.

• Facilitating reviews with SMEs to validate, update, and continuously improve competency content across disciplines.

• Ensuring competency frameworks integrate with performance management, learning, and succession planning processes (where applicable).

Systems, Data & HR/LMS Integration

• Leading design, enhancement, and governance of competency and learning systems, ensuring data structures, workflows, and functionality support capability requirements.

• Managing and optimizing HRIS/LMS integrations (e.g., Workday, LMS platforms), ensuring competency, learning, and performance data flow accurately.

• Working with digital teams to translate business requirements into functional system enhancements, workflows, and reporting tools.

Reporting, Analytics & Compliance

• Developing dashboards and workforce capability reports to support leadership visibility and operational decision making.

• Leading compliance reporting for technical certifications, regulatory requirements, and training completion, ensuring audit readiness.

• Establishing and maintaining data governance, quality standards, and documentation for competency and learning systems.

Stakeholder Engagement & Change Adoption

• Partnering with HR, Digital Learning, Operations, and IT teams to embed a unified capability data ecosystem.

• Leading communications, user training, and change management for competency system enhancements, reporting tools, and digital processes.

• Supporting senior stakeholders by providing high quality reporting, guidance, and insights related to workforce capability.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Identifying opportunities to automate reporting, improve data accuracy, and streamline capability processes.

• Supporting deployment of new learning technologies, digital tools, and system upgrades linked to competency and skills development.

• Benchmarking internal and external practices to inform capability strategy improvements.

KPIs (KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS)

• Accuracy and completeness of competency and skills data

• Timely delivery of compliance and capability reporting

• Improvement of data flow and system functionality across HR/LMS platforms

• Engagement with dashboards and digital capability tools

• Consistent application of governance and data quality standards across regions

Fuel your passion

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 7+ years of experience in competency management, capability frameworks, learning systems, or HR systems governance.

• Have a strong background in competency framework design, assessment workflows, and job‑to‑competency mapping.

• Have hands-on experience managing or implementing HRIS/LMS platforms, including data structures and reporting.

• Have the ability to translate operational or HR requirements into system functionality and digital workflows.

• Have proven experience producing workforce analytics and capability reports for senior leadership.

• Have experience supporting compliance-readiness and regulated workforce environments.

• Have strong stakeholder engagement skills across HR, technical teams, and leadership groups.

Desired Qualifications:

• Have experience with global or multi‑region operations.

• Have knowledge of safety‑critical industries or technical operations.

• Have exposure to digital learning ecosystems and capability systems.

• Have experience managing SME groups or validation committees.

Work in a way that works for you

We are recognizing that everyone is different and the way people want to work is varying. In this role, flexibility may be offered depending on project schedules, field needs, and customer requirements.

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 must 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 to Maintain knowledge of new developments and technologies of Lufkin and other manufacturers’ equipment to provide the highest standard of service.

• 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

You will be eligible to participate in Company-sponsored benefit programs, including health & welfare programs and the Thrift Plan (401k). You will have a choice of coverage options that best suit your needs. Coverage options and contribution amounts are related to your benefit elections, base salary level, and specific requirements of each of these plans.

This position is eligible for our comprehensive and competitive benefits package, which can be found here, and is further eligible for additional forms of compensation such as bonuses subject to the terms of the applicable benefit plans or policies.