Application Engineer - Drilling Services

Baker Hughes; Kuwait City; On-site; KWD 18,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Baker Hughes in Kuwait City invites an experienced Applications Engineer to drive flawless job execution from pre-planning through post-job analysis. You will design technical programs, perform engineering modelling, and collaborate with Service Delivery Coordinators and sales to align client objectives with contract terms.

This role demands leadership, strong communication, and global collaboration across disciplines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering or mathematics.
• Minimum 7 years of drilling services experience.
• Experience in directional drilling.
• Prefer prior experience with Baker Hughes.
• Willingness to travel.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with MtJC process.
• Collaborate with Service Delivery Coordinator and sales to understand client objectives and contracts.
• Perform offset job analysis and engineering modelling to assess hazards.
• Work with disciplines to cover all application aspects and constraints.
• Design a job program with risk/contingency plans to meet client goals.
• Communicate risk of missing objectives through proper channels.
• Document calculations and plan revisions for audit visibility.
• Provide on-demand product support during job execution.
• Compare planned vs. executed jobs and drive improvements.
• Support field incidents related to products/services.
• Participate in incident investigations and corrective actions.
• Advise on product improvement opportunities and sales support.
• Handle special projects as required.

Skills

Leadership

Interpersonal skills

Planning skills

Communication skills

Presentation skills

Organizational skills

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Travel readiness

On-call availability

Global collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Job description

Job description

Are you a highly motivated, creative individual and passionate about Application Engineering?

Are you an innovative and collaborative professional?

Join our team!

Baker Hughes is the leading energy technology company, who delivers across the energy value chain through our market-leading business segments. 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.

Partner with the best

The Applications Engineer ensures Baker Hughes can deliver flawless execution through involvement in pre-planning, job execution, and post-job analysis. This position delivers a technical job program or application design that maximizes our opportunity to meet the job objectives in line with the contract terms and conditions. This position works seamlessly together with the Service Delivery Coordinators and other resources across organizational boundaries to ensure all aspects and constraints of the applications are understood and have been considered

As a Services Senior Specialist - Applications Engineering, you will be responsible for:

• Ensuring compliance with manage the Job Cycle (MtJC) process
• Working with the assigned Service Delivery Coordinator/Salesperson to understand the client’s well construction or production objectives as well as the commercial terms for Baker Hughes (i.e. outcome based contract, line item contract, etc.)
• Performing offset job analysis and product/service specific engineering modelling calculations to understand application hazards and incident potential
• Working together with all disciplines and stakeholders to ensure all aspects and constraints of the application and suggested products/services have been considered
• Designing a job program, including risk mitigation plans and contingency plans, that can meet the client’s objective(s), maximize revenue potential and ensure future job assignments for Baker Hughes
• Working with the assigned Service Delivery Coordinator/Salesperson to ensure any risk of not meeting the client’s objective is communicated to the client using the appropriate channels/processes for the respective client
• Accurately document any calculations/simulations/plan revision and/or changes during the project cycles for visibility to dependent teams and audit purposes
• Providing on-demand support in accordance with product portfolio or on-call schedule for job execution
• Comparing job as-planned versus job as-executed, document any lessons learned and develop recommendations for further improvements to procedures to ensure continuous improvement takes place
• Working on Field Incidents related to products/services
• Participating in Incident Investigations when required, ensuring the end to end process is considered, (including job planning, preparation, and execution), when determining incident root cause(s) alongside appropriate corrective actions
• Ensuring timely incident management to enable fast customer issue resolution and cash collection
• Advising on product improvement opportunities for repetitive component/product failures
• Providing sales support and product application recommendations
• Product line specific responsibilities as applicable
• Handling special projects as required

Fuel your passion!

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering or mathematics
• Have a minimum of 7 years of experience in Drilling Services
• Have a previous experience working in directional drilling
• Have a previous experience working with Baker Hughes is preferred
• Excellent leadership, strong interpersonal, influencing and planning skills
• Ability to be on call outside of normal business hours
• Ability to work in a global matrix organization
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Strong organizational, analytical and problem solving skillsMust have the ability to travel (potential for travel to rig sites, customer facilities, meetings, training, etc.)

Desired Charasteristics:

• Significant operational experience
• Comfortable presenting in front of an audience of experienced peers
• Ability to manage, develop, coach, and mentor teams across organizational boundarie
• sAbility to learn and use various computer tools to prepare data and visualizations for analysis
• Ability to work independently

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.

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 have to 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

The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: Services Specialist - Applications Engineering