Job Description
Lead Engineer, Product Design and Engineering – Mechanical
Join our Baker Hughes Team!
Baker Hughes is a global energy technology company serving the oil and gas industry in more than 120 countries. The Commercial and Sales organization drives growth by building strong customer partnerships, marketing hydrocarbons, and offering integrated equipment and service solutions. Focusing on digital transformation and energy transition, the team leverages data-driven insights to optimize sales performance and maximize customer value.
Partner with the best
As a Lead Engineer, Product Design and Engineering - Mechanical, you will be responsible for:
- Lead Global sustenance engineering process and guidelines to centralize the design engineering
- Lead the engineering change management of control valves, ensuring compliance with ASME BPVC, ANSI/ISA, API, PED / ATEX / IECEx
- Create and review 3D CAD models, engineering drawings, and specifications.
- Perform stress analysis, flow calculations, CV sizing, noise, cavitation and material selection for valve components.
- Drive design reviews, risk assessments, and design verification activities.
- Drive innovation in valve design to improve performance, reliability, and manufacturability
- Collaborate with suppliers to ensure quality and manufacturability of components.
- Strong skill in writing engineering-controlled specifications that define the product lines.
- Establishing and maintaining consistency of a control valve product's performance, functional and physical attributes with its requirements, design, operational information, and manages changes throughout the system life cycle.
Fuel your passion
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 4 year Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from an accredited university or college
- Have minimum 6+ years of experience in control valve Design, Engineering, Manufacturing and Valve Assembly Process.
- Strong expertise in ERP and PLM. SAP & Team center are added advantage.
- Deep understanding of control valve systems design and application, fluid dynamics, and materials for corrosive and high-pressure environments.
- Have detailed knowledge of control valve design including understanding of required material selection.
- Strong leadership, communication, and project management skills.
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:
- Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities
- Comprehensive private medical care options
- The safety net of life insurance and disability programs
- Tailored financial programs.
- Additional elected or voluntary benefits
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering
- Minimum 6+ years experience in control valve design, engineering, manufacturing and assembly processes
- Expertise in ERP and PLM systems
- Experience with SAP
- Experience with Teamcenter
- Knowledge of ASME BPVC, ANSI/ISA, API, PED, ATEX, IECEx compliance requirements
- Ability to create and review 3D CAD models, engineering drawings, and specifications
- Experience performing stress analysis, flow calculations, CV sizing, noise and cavitation analysis, and material selection
- Experience driving design reviews, risk assessments, design verification, and writing engineering-controlled specifications
- Strong leadership, communication, and project management skills
- Experience collaborating with suppliers to ensure component quality and manufacturability
Baker Hughes Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Baker Hughes and has not been reviewed or approved by Baker Hughes.
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Retirement Support — Feedback suggests retirement contributions combine automatic employer funding with a dollar‑for‑dollar match, with immediate vesting on the match. This structure can meaningfully increase savings for employees who participate consistently.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Feedback suggests a discounted employee stock purchase program with regular purchase periods and no brokerage fees provides accessible ownership upside. Program parameters are clearly laid out through the benefits hub and plan materials.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Feedback suggests exempt staff have flexible, manager‑approved time off while non‑exempt employees accrue vacation and receive paid personal time. Company‑paid holidays and paid parental leave further broaden time‑away options.
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