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Baker Hughes is a global energy technology company serving the oil and gas industry in more than 120 countries. The Commercial and Sales organization drives growth by building strong partnerships with customers, marketing hydrocarbons, and offering integrated equipment and service solutions. Focusing on digital transformation and the energy transition, the team leverages data-driven insights to optimize sales performance and maximize customer value.
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The Well Planner 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.
Responsibilities, authorities and accountabilities
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
Ensure compliance with manage the Job Cycle (MtJC) process
Work 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.)
Perform offset job analysis and product/service specific engineering modelling calculations to understand application hazards and incident potential
Work together with all disciplines and stakeholders to ensure all aspects and constraints of the application and suggested products/services have been considered
Design 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
Work 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
Provide on-demand support in accordance with product portfolio or on-call schedule for job execution
Compare 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
Work on Field Incidents related to products/services
Participate 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
Ensure timely incident management to enable fast customer issue resolution and cash collection
Advise on product improvement opportunities for repetitive component/product failures
Responsible for providing sales support and product application recommendations
Product line specific responsibilities as applicable
Handles special projects as required
Second contact later the sales team and support to the customers
Internal communication Time Management
QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS:
• Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering or mathematics
• 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 skills
• Must have the ability to travel (potential for travel to rig sites, customer facilities, meetings, training, etc.)
DESIRED CHARACTERISTICS:
• Significant operational experience
• Comfortable presenting in front of an audience of experienced peers
• Ability to manage, develop, coach, and mentor teams across organizational boundaries
• Ability to learn and use various computer tools to prepare data and visualizations for analysis
• Ability to work independently
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering or mathematics
• 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 skills
• Must have the ability to travel (potential for travel to rig sites, customer facilities, meetings, training, etc.)
Desired Characteristics
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Our people are at the heart of everything we do at Baker Hughes. We know we’re at our best when all our employees are thriving, engaged, and able to bring their full potential to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent, and develop leaders at every level to bring out the best in everyone.
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Our innovations have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep moving forward into the future, 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 contributions
The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: Services Specialist - Applications Engineering

Baker Hughes (NASDAQ: BKR) is an energy technology company that provides solutions for 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.
For more than a century, our inventions have revolutionized energy. We harness the power of engineering, data, and science to redefine what's possible. Our diverse portfolio of equipment and service capabilities span the energy and industrial value chain. Our two operating segments, Oilfield Services & Equipment (OFSE) and Industrial & Energy Technology (IET), are organized based on the nature of our markets and customers, and consist of similar products and services. Visit us at bakerhughes.com to learn more.