Reliability Engineer

Baker Hughes • Midland, TX

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About The Position

The Reliability Engineer identifies, leads, and executes activities aimed at reducing the costs of failure, including costs caused by non-productive time, repairs, personnel, and premature product failures. The role works within or in close collaboration with regional service delivery, global product line and engineering, quality, and supply chain functions to support comprehensive incident management and robust corrective action implementation.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience in reliability engineering.
• Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics.
• Excellent leadership, interpersonal, influencing, and planning skills.
• Ability to work in a global matrix organization.
• Understanding of the Service Delivery process and the technical nature of the business.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience as a Field Engineer or Specialist, Remote Professional, product development professional, applications engineer, AMO engineer, or in another technical discipline.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Facilitation and presentation skills.
• Ability to work and communicate well with others.
• Ability to communicate effectively in English.
• Experience presenting detailed and technical information.
• Project management skills.
• Advanced problem-solving skills related to applied engineering, design, and technology development.
• Strong knowledge of the Six Sigma DMAIC process and business intelligence.
• Self-contained, self-motivated, structured approach to working within a global, interdisciplinary team under limited supervision.
• Strong commitment to learning.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with the Manage the Job Cycle (MtJC) process.
• Lead or participate in incident investigations, considering the end-to-end process—including job planning, preparation, and execution—to determine root causes and appropriate corrective actions.
• Prevent failures across the lifecycle of a product or service through active monitoring and corrective action planning.
• Support job planning and preparation by participating in Risk Assessment, deviation waiver, Management of Change (RA / DWR / MOC), and Deployment Readiness Assessment (DRA) processes.
• Participate in the engineering design review process.
• Execute key steps in the Field Incident Management Process (FIMP).
• Manage the FRACAS DMAIC stages and apply root cause analysis (RCA) processes.
• Develop and review cause maps.
• Facilitate or lead incident investigations, incident reviews, and corrective action boards.
• Develop RCA reports and technical or field bulletins.
• Identify FRACAS trends to prioritize failure modes for corrective action investigations.
• Analyze performance data, monitor performance, and identify and report performance trends.
• Develop and report key performance indicators as needed.
• Share lessons learned with field personnel and collaborate across the reliability engineering community to facilitate knowledge transfer.
• Act as a subject matter expert for the respective area to service delivery and supply chain functions.
• Support new product development in reliability engineering through direct liaison with engineering and the deploying region.
• Handle other product-line-specific responsibilities and special projects as required.

Benefits

• Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities.
• Comprehensive private medical care options.
• Life insurance and disability programs.
• Tailored financial programs.
• Additional elected or voluntary benefits.
• Eligibility to participate in company-sponsored health and welfare programs and the Thrift Plan (401k), with a choice of coverage options.
• Eligibility for a comprehensive and competitive benefits package.
• Eligibility for additional forms of compensation, such as bonuses, subject to applicable benefit plans or policies.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level