Instruments Global Program Manager Lead

Instruments Global Program Manager - Team Lead

Are you inspired to work in Energy Technology?

Are you a proven leader who thrives on collaboration and process?

Partner With the Best

Join the team responsible for the smart instruments that differentiate Baker Hughes' control valves from its competitors'. The IET Industrial Valves & Gears Digital Products team engineers control valve instruments and related tools and applications. As the Global Program Manager Team Lead, you will be hands-on and leading the Application Product and Project Manager team collaborating with electrical, mechanical, firmware, software, test, manufacturing, supplier, and domain experts in a global team to deliver industry-leading technology. You will:

• Work with Digital Products' leadership and stakeholders to execute the team's commercial roadmap on-time and in-budget.
• Guide talent development and growth toward being a highly-performant team.
• Collaborate with other Digital Products Team Leads to allocate talent to execute project requirements.
• Understand high level program and project requirements and translate them into delivery targets. Document and track program assumptions and risks.
• Lead Agile/Scrum process transformation across mechanical/electrical, firmware, and test engineers; instrument quality; and other disciplines. Identify opportunities for, and implement solutions for, process and efficiency improvement.
• Collaborate with key program stakeholder groups to effectively and successfully define and complete program deliverables.
• Identify and scope solutions for conceptual and preliminary design; lead basic and detailed design execution. Provide guidance and expertise to the test teams for informal and formal testing.
• Identify and manage technical risk; understand trade-offs.
• Demonstrate accountability to meet team, business, and Company objectives.
• Ensure team's adherence to HSE and compliance requirements.

Fuel Your Passion

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have a demonstrable impact in leading and influencing cross-functional teams.
• Have experience in Agile project management.
• Demonstrate expertise in planning, organizing, and executing technical programs from product concept to commercial launch.
• Be a clear thinker: take decisions with speed and accuracy based on best available information.
• Have excellent interpersonal and facilitation skills and ability to interface effectively with different levels within and across the organization.
• Have strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Have an entrepreneurial mindset that allows you to be self-directed, highly resilient, creative, and solution oriented.
• Have an ability to operate iteratively to define and prioritize work based on resource or technical dependencies, product requirements, and commercial needs.
• Have an ability to, and experience with, analyzing and interpreting engineering specifications and drawings. Have experience with configuration and design change management.
• Collaborate with global teams; have timezone flexibility.
• Have a strong desire to learn and grow.
• Have a Bachelor's in an Engineering Discipline such as Mechanical, Electrical, Computer Engineering

Preferred Qualifications

• Member of a professional project management institute such as APM or PMI and/or a formal ScrumMaster certification.
• Six Sigma or Lean trained.
• Experience as a technical or team lead.

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. This role is a hybrid role based in the Houston area; we can offer 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
• Comprehensive private medical care options
• Safety net of life insurance and disability programs
• Tailored financial programs
• Additional elected or voluntary benefits

You will be eligible to participate in Company-sponsored benefit programs, including health & welfare programs and the Thrift Plan (401k). You will have a choice of coverage options that best suit your needs. Coverage options and contribution amounts are related to your benefit elections, base salary level, and specific requirements of each of these plans.

This position is eligible for our comprehensive and competitive benefits package, which can be found here, and is further eligible for additional forms of compensation such as bonuses subject to the terms of the applicable benefit plans or policies.