Job Description

Flow Assurance Specialist

Would you like to lead integrated solutions that unlock additional value from mature fields?

Join our team

Baker Hughes is a global energy‑technology company operating in more than 120 countries. We deliver innovative solutions that make energy safer, cleaner, and more efficient. Our teams help customers maximize asset value by improving recovery, extending field life, and implementing sustainable production strategies across mature and developing assets.

Partner with the best

As a Flow Assurance Specialist you will be Identifying, diagnosing, and mitigating flow assurance risks in a way that is directly linked to production reliability and project bankability. The flow assurance specialist should have worked on projects that progressed from fluid characterization, concept design, and pre-FEED/FEED into execution, commissioning or operational implementation, and performance monitoring. The role requires working knowledge of the individual products, chemicals, monitoring systems, operating practices, and facilities interventions that make up the flow assurance value chain, with the ability to translate technical risk into practical mitigation plans and client-facing value.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading assessment of production fluids, operating conditions, network constraints, solids, wax, scale, hydrates, corrosion, water handling, emulsion behavior and shutdown or restart risks.

• Defining fit-for-purpose chemical, operational, mechanical, thermal, surveillance, pigging, and production management solutions for mature field applications.

• Understanding the role, limits, and integration requirements of chemicals, inhibitors, monitoring tools, pigging programs, heating or insulation options, separation or water-handling changes, and operational procedures.

• Applying experience from implemented mitigation programs, including start-up behavior, steady-state operations, shutdown and restart performance, chemical effectiveness monitoring, production losses avoided, and lessons learned from field operations.

• Establishing pressure, temperature, rate, water cut, composition, turndown, restart, and network operating limits required to sustain reliable production.

• Quantifying production risk, deferment exposure, mitigation cost drivers, monitoring needs, and value impact for integrated field management proposals.

• Challenging flow assurance assumptions, guide junior specialists, and ensure proposal inputs are practical, bankable, and aligned with operating constraints.

Qualifications

• BSc/MSc in Chemical, Petroleum, Mechanical, Process Engineering, or related discipline.

• 12–15+ years experience in flow assurance, production chemistry, production operations, facilities support, or integrated production optimization.

• Direct experience on projects that progressed from concept design and pre-FEED/FEED into execution, commissioning or operational implementation, and performance monitoring.

• Deep expertise in solids, wax, scale, hydrates, corrosion, multiphase flow behavior, network constraints, and flow assurance mitigation strategies.

• Working knowledge of chemicals, inhibitors, monitoring systems, operating procedures, pigging programs, heating or insulation options, and facilities interventions used across the flow assurance value chain.

• Proven ability to translate flow assurance risks into bankable mitigation plans, operating envelopes, and client-facing proposal inputs.

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. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

• 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
• Comprehensive private medical care options
• Safety net of life insurance and disability programs
• Tailored financial programs
• Additional elected or voluntary benefits

The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: Engineering Advisor - Regional Customer Applications