Lead Mechanical Engineer – Customer Order Engineering

Do you enjoy solving complex mechanical engineering challenges to support customer‑specific orders?
Are you motivated by leading engineering solutions for advanced inline inspection products used in harsh environments?

Join our Team!

Baker Hughes is being recognized as a global energy technology company serving the oil and gas sector across more than 120 countries. Our Process & Pipeline Services (PPS) business delivers industry‑leading in‑Line Inspection (ILI) services to pipeline operators worldwide. Through innovative Magnetic and Ultrasonic technologies, we are enabling pipeline integrity, safety, and regulatory compliance across global energy infrastructure.

Partnering with the best

As a Lead Mechanical Engineer – Customer Order Engineering, you are supporting and enhancing existing ILI products while delivering engineering‑to‑order solutions aligned with customer and regulatory requirements. You are leading problem‑solving initiatives to enable timely project execution, coordinating with regional teams and product development centers, and providing technical leadership to ensure product reliability and performance in demanding operating environments.

As a Lead Mechanical Engineer – Customer Order Engineering, you are being responsible for:

• Coordinating product feature extensions to support customer‑specific order requirements.

• Adapting and integrating products and services to fulfill engineering‑to‑order customer requests.

• Responding to technical customer service inquiries related to application and order engineering.

• Leading Engineering‑to‑Order workflow processes in collaboration with regional teams and product development centers.

• Performing mechanical evaluation, design, analysis, testing, and integration of systems and components using sound engineering principles.

• Supporting hands‑on development of new components and complete systems designed for harsh operating environments.

• Providing technical discipline leadership to engineers supporting assigned projects.

• Managing engineering tasks to meet technical, schedule, and quality requirements.

• Developing project plans and resource estimates to address customer requests or product issues.

• Conducting production testing and analysis to validate design performance.

• Ensuring designs complies with business, industry, and regulatory standards, codes, and requirements.

• Applying design principles that support reliability, manufacturability, maintainability, and operability.

• Creating, reviewing, and approving engineering documentation such as test plans, reports, and drawings.

Fueling your passion
To be successful in this role you are:

• Have a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or Mechatronics.

• Have a minimum of 5 years of experience in mechanical engineering design including CAD modeling, machining, assembly drawings, and load calculations.

• Have demonstrated ability to investigate and resolve complex technical problems.

• Have experience leading engineering projects and influencing technical decisions.

• Have experience with unit testing and test‑driven development.

• Have strong written and verbal communication skills with proven teamwork capability.

• Have experience working and influencing in a cross‑functional or matrix organization.

Desired:

• Have experience in pipeline integrity engineering and management.

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 

• Safety net of life insurance and disability programs 

• Tailored financial programs 

• Additional elected or voluntary benefits