Lead Designer - CAD

Are you passionate about leading complex design activities for oilfield equipment

Would you like to guide design teams and deliver highquality subsurface solutions

Join our team

Baker Hughes is a global energytechnology company operating in more than 120 countries. We deliver innovative solutions that make energy safer cleaner and more efficient. Our Oilfield SubSurface teams design and develop advanced components systems and controls that support reliable and safe energy production worldwide.

Partner with the best

As a Lead Designer (CAD) you will lead design activities for oilfield subsurface components systems and controls equipment. You will ensure designs meet company standards and engineering competence requirements while providing leadership in executing business goals programs and processes. You will coordinate design teams establish drafting processes and develop standardized templates drawings specifications and Bills of Materials using established or newly developed design tools.

As a Lead Designer - CAD you will be responsible for:

• Planning and organizing design activities with clear schedules priorities and corrective actions when progress falls below plan.
• Generating mechanical designs from engineering specifications and verifying designs against manufacturing and assembly practices including tolerance studies and fitforfunction validation.
• Following Design Process Management (DPM) processes and ensuring compliance with drawing standards.
• Defining and managing design deliverables to meet contractual and thirdparty requirements.
• Interpreting engineering requirements and defining dimensions and tolerances to meet fit form and function criteria.
• Securing and coordinating design resources in collaboration with engineers and monitoring progress to completion.
• Identifying assessing and mitigating hazards ensuring designs meet HSE requirements and incorporate lessons learned.
• Creating layout detail and assembly designs addressing safety environmental and structural considerations.
• Driving continuous improvement through risk reduction cost reduction and performance enhancement initiatives.
• Creating work packs reviewing drawings developing test procedures and leading small design teams.
• Producing layout detail fabrication and assembly drawings in accordance with ASME Y14.5 standards.
• Developing 3D models and drawings suitable for manufacture using company parametric practices.
• Creating and maintaining Bills of Materials in documentation systems for engineering approval.
• Supporting design verification activities including tolerance analysis design reviews manufacturability and basic calculations.
• Creating basic FAT procedures prototype test procedures and documenting results for approval.
• Ensuring all design documentation is correctly archived within electronic document management systems.
• Applying designformanufacture principles for machining welding and fabrication processes.
  

Fuel your passion

To be successful in this role you will:

Education

• Hold a BSc HNC or HND in Mechanical Engineering or an equivalent vocational qualification with significant relevant experience.
  

Personal & Leadership Skills

• Be conscientious flexible versatile and determined.
• Communicate assertively and positively.
• Be fluent in English (additional local languages desirable).
• Work effectively within teams and adapt to changing work demands.
  

Technical & IT Skills

• Have demonstrable experience using modern 2D/3D CAD tools and drafting standards.
• Be familiar with materials welding heat treatment and elastomers.
• Understand relevant industry standards codes and design methodologies.
• Be proficient with design and documentation software including PDM systems.
• Exposure to Six Sigma Mathcad or similar engineering tools is desirable.
  

Work in a way that works for you

This is a fulltime design leadership role involving close collaboration with engineering manufacturing and project teams. Work priorities may vary based on project schedules and business needs.

Working with us

At Baker Hughes we value collaboration innovation and technical excellence. We empower our design professionals to lead improve processes and deliver highquality engineering solutions while fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

Working for you

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

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