Reliability Engineer

Baker Hughes • Midland, TX

23d

About The Position

The Reliability Engineer identifies, leads, and executes activities to reduce failure-related costs, including non-productive time, repair costs, personnel costs, 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 implementation of robust corrective actions.

The role supports product and service lifecycle reliability through incident investigation, root cause analysis, corrective action planning, performance monitoring, trend analysis, and knowledge sharing. It also contributes to job planning and preparation, engineering design reviews, deployment readiness, and new product development. Special projects may be assigned as required.

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.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; must be able to communicate effectively in English.
• Ability to facilitate and present, work well with others, and communicate effectively.
• Self-contained, self-motivated, and structured approach to work within a global, interdisciplinary team under limited supervision.
• Strong commitment to learning.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience as a Field Engineer/Specialist, Remote Professional, product development professional, applications engineer, AMO engineer, or in another technical discipline.
• Previous experience presenting detailed and technical information.
• Project management skills.
• Advanced problem-solving skills related to Applied Engineering, Design, and Technology Development.
• Strong Six-Sigma DMAIC process and business intelligence knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with the Manage the Job Cycle (MtJC) process.
• Lead or participate in incident investigations, considering the full 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 processes.
• Develop and review cause maps.
• Facilitate or lead incident investigations and incident review and corrective action boards.
• Develop root cause analysis reports and technical or field bulletins.
• Identify FRACAS trends and prioritize failure modes for corrective action investigation.
• Analyze performance data, monitor performance, identify and report performance trends, and develop and report key performance indicators as needed.
• Share lessons learned with field personnel and facilitate knowledge transfer across the reliability engineering community.
• 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 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.
• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package.
• Potential additional compensation such as bonuses, subject to applicable benefit plans or policies.

What This Job Offers

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