Lead Engineer - Customer Order Engineering - Mechanical (Subsea Wellhead & Casing Solutions)

Lead Engineer – Customer Order Engineering – Mechanical (Subsea Wellhead & Casing Solutions)

Are you a Mechanical Engineering professional with a passion for delivering innovative subsea solutions?

Do you enjoy leading complex engineering projects, driving technical excellence, and supporting world-class subsea production systems for global customers?

Join our team!

As part of the Subsea Wellhead & Casing Solutions team, you will play a key role in delivering engineering solutions that support the design, manufacture, and deployment of critical subsea systems. This role offers the opportunity to lead customer order engineering activities, provide technical leadership, and collaborate with global engineering teams to ensure successful project execution.

Partner with the best

The Lead Engineer, Customer Order Engineering – Mechanical, will provide technical leadership and engineering expertise across customer projects within the Subsea Wellhead & Casing Solutions portfolio. You will be responsible for leading engineering design activities, ensuring compliance with customer specifications and industry standards, and supporting projects from concept through manufacturing and delivery.

The role combines engineering leadership, technical problem-solving, project execution, design verification, stakeholder collaboration, and continuous improvement. Working closely with customers, manufacturing teams, project managers, and engineering specialists, you will ensure high-quality engineering solutions that meet safety, reliability, performance, and commercial requirements.

As a Lead Engineer – Customer Order Engineering – Mechanical , you will be responsible for:

• Interpret requirements and specifications for the purposes of engineering design.

• Interpret customer engineering specifications to develop layout, detail, and assembly designs while defining engineering work scopes and execution plans for effective resource allocation across parts, drawings, reports, specifications, and procedures
• Develop conceptual design requirements and layouts for review following company design process management (DPP) protocols.
• Approve Bill of Materials (BOM), drawings, selection of components, stack-ups, assembly procedures, and support manufacturing
• Approve detail designs for manufacture and participate and create material for design reviews including materials and environmental reviews using relevant software to prepare general drawings.
• Undertake design verification, which may include but not limited to:  Tolerance studies, design reliability, design for manufacture, simple failure analysis, design reviews, calculations for basic design Verification purposes.
• Identify improvements in existing products, procedures and processes and develop cost effective solutions to satisfy specifications

Fuel your passion

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Automation Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or an equivalent engineering discipline.

• Have significant engineering design experience within Subsea Wellhead Systems, Subsea Production Systems, or related oil and gas equipment.

• Demonstrate substantial post-graduate industrial experience, including experience within relevant engineering and technical leadership roles.

• Possess strong knowledge of mechanical design principles, engineering calculations, materials selection, and manufacturing processes.

• Have experience interpreting customer specifications and converting technical requirements into practical engineering solutions.

• Demonstrate expertise in engineering design verification, reliability assessment, risk evaluation, and design review processes.

• Be fully familiar with Risk Assessment and Reliability Verification methodologies and procedures.

• Have strong knowledge of industry standards and codes applicable to subsea and oilfield equipment, including API 5L, API 5CT, API 6A, API 17D, and NACE MR0175.

• Have experience working with 2D and 3D CAD modelling systems and engineering analysis software.

• Be fluent in English, with additional language capabilities considered beneficial.

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way people work and deliver at their best varies. We support flexible working arrangements and encourage a healthy balance between professional and personal commitments.

Working with us

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are stronger when our employees are developed, engaged, and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work. We invest in our workforce, promote inclusion, and develop leaders at every level to help individuals and teams succeed.

Working for you

Our innovations have transformed energy for more than a century. To continue shaping the future, we need people who embrace change, challenge convention, and drive continuous improvement.

Join us, and you can expect:

• Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing initiatives.

• Comprehensive private medical care options.

• Life insurance and disability programs.

• Competitive financial and retirement benefits.

• Additional elected and voluntary benefits.

• Career development opportunities within Engineering, Customer Order

The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: Lead Engineer, Mechanical, Customer Order Engineering About Us:

We are an energy technology company that provides solutions to energy and industrial customers worldwide. Built on a century of experience and conducting business in over 120 countries, our innovative technologies and services are taking energy forward – making it safer, cleaner and more efficient for people and the planet.

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Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company that values innovation and progress? Join us and become part of a team of people who will challenge and inspire you! Let’s come together and take energy forward.

Baker Hughes Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. Apply Now