Job Description

Preventive Quality Systems Leader

Are you passionate about building world‑class preventive quality systems?

Would you like to drive quality excellence and risk prevention across a global engineering organization?

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 Industrial & Energy Technology (IET) organization is committed to embedding quality into every stage of the product and service lifecycle through proactive risk management, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.

Partner with the best

As a Preventive Quality Systems Leader, you will develop, drive, and embed a world‑class preventive quality approach across IET. You will strengthen the Business System through proactive risk management, defect prevention, and knowledge reuse across product and process lifecycles. Leveraging best practices from automotive, aerospace, and other high‑reliability industries, you will help establish scalable and practical preventive quality methodologies suited to Engineer‑to‑Order (ETO), Configure‑to‑Order (CTO), and Flow manufacturing environments.

As a Preventive Quality Systems Leader, you will be responsible for:

• Developing, driving, and embedding a world‑class preventive quality approach throughout IET.
• Strengthening the Business System through integrated risk management, defect prevention, and knowledge reuse.
• Leveraging best practices from automotive, aerospace, and other high‑reliability industries, adapting them to Baker Hughes operating models.
• Establishing and continuously improving a pragmatic, risk‑based integrated project and technical risk management framework.
• Expanding understanding, capability, and rigor around:
  • Project FMEAs
  • System FMEAs
  • Design FMEAs
  • Process FMEAs
  • Knowledge management and lessons‑learned systems
• Maximizing learning, standardization, prevention, and reuse across the enterprise.
• Driving deployment and integration of:
  • Control Plans
  • Measurement System Analysis (MSA)
  • Process Controls
  • Statistical methods
  • Other preventive quality tools embedded within the Business System
• Defining and deploying differentiated adoption models ranging from lightweight preventive quality approaches for lower‑risk applications to full APQP methodologies for strategic, high‑risk product lines.
• Evolving and embedding an integrated Problem Solving Framework across IET, including:
  • 3Cs
  • A3
  • 8 Step
  • Apollo
  • Cordant
  • Shainin
  • Six Sigma methodologies
• Driving organizational alignment and commitment to preventive quality principles across all levels of the organization.
• Training, coaching, and developing a global network of SMEs to support adoption and capability development.
• Assessing the maturity, effectiveness, coverage, and business impact of preventive quality systems and associated tools.
• Ensuring preventive quality practices remain aligned with business strategies, customer expectations, and operational priorities.

Fuel your passion

To be successful in this role, you will:

• Hold a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college.
• Be Lean Six Sigma certified or actively pursuing certification (Green Belt, Black Belt, or Master Black Belt).
• Have significant experience in Process Improvement and consistent application of APQP tools
• Demonstrate strong knowledge of:
  • Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)
  • Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA)
  • Control Plans
  • Measurement System Analysis (MSA)
  • Statistical Process Control (SPC)
  • Root Cause Analysis methodologies
• Possess strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate complex concepts to senior leadership.
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal, coaching, leadership, and influencing capabilities.
• Be capable of developing new methodologies and approaches to improve organizational performance.
• Have proven ability to analyze and resolve complex business and quality challenges.
• Demonstrate success leading programs, projects, and transformation initiatives.
• Possess strong planning, execution, and project management skills.

Desired Characteristics

• Leadership experience in the development of APQP tools within a globally recognized standards body
• Extensive knowledge of preventive quality systems within highly regulated or complex engineering environments.
• Proven capability to influence across global, cross‑functional organizations.
• Strong passion for quality excellence, continuous improvement, and organizational capability development.

Work in a way that works for you

This is a full‑time global leadership role requiring extensive collaboration across engineering, quality, manufacturing, operations, and business leadership teams to drive preventive quality excellence throughout the organization.

Working with us

At Baker Hughes, quality is at the center of everything we do. We foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and collaboration while empowering our teams to anticipate risks, prevent defects, and deliver exceptional outcomes for our customers.

Working for you

We offer a competitive benefits package aligned with local market standards, including:

• Work–life balance and wellbeing programs
• Comprehensive private medical care
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Competitive financial programs
• Additional voluntary or elective benefits

The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: Quality Senior Advisor - Quality Management