Area Technical Applications Manager

Baker Hughes • Sugar Land, TX

4d • Remote

About The Position

Area Technical Applications Manager Would you like to apply upstream chemical expertise to ensure the right chemical solutions keep wellhead production flowing and customers successful? Are you energized by customer‑facing leadership balancing technical rigor, operational execution, and stakeholder trust across a large region? Partner with the best Baker Hughes is a global energy technology company enabling safer, more sustainable, and more efficient operations across the energy sector. Our teams support customers across the full energy value chain with advanced technologies and high‑performance chemical solutions. The Area Technical Applications team plays a critical role in ensuring the right chemical applications, field execution, and technical support that maximize well performance and production efficiency. Fuel your passion As an Area Technical Applications Manager, you will apply your expertise in production chemistry, wellhead applications, and customer operations to deliver high‑quality engineering support. You will lead risk mitigation, job planning, technical design, troubleshooting, and post‑job analysis to strengthen service performance. You will collaborate across functions and partner closely with customers to enhance operational outcomes and support business growth.

Requirements

• Have a bachelor’s degree in science, technology, chemical/application engineering, or mathematics.
• Have strong leadership capabilities, with excellent interpersonal, influencing, and planning skills.
• Have 5+ years of experience as a field manager or account manager, ideally within the chemical industry or upstream production chemicals.
• Have a customer‑focused approach with proven experience managing and supporting key customer accounts.
• Have the ability to participate in an on‑call rotation outside normal business hours.
• Have the ability to work effectively within a global matrix organization and collaborate across functions.
• Have excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts clearly.
• Have strong organizational, analytical, and problem‑solving skills.
• Have the ability to travel up to 25% for customer visits, team support, and field operations.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring full compliance with the Manage the Job Cycle (MtJC) process through all phases of job planning, preparation, and execution.
• Partnering with the assigned Service Delivery Coordinator/Salesperson to understand customer well objectives, operational requirements, and contractual models such as outcome‑based or line‑item contracts.
• Conducting offset job analysis and performing engineering modelling to identify operational hazards, risks, and potential incident scenarios.
• Collaborating with engineering, operations, quality, and product line teams to ensure all technical considerations, constraints, and product/service requirements are integrated into job planning.
• Designing detailed job programs that include risk mitigation strategies, contingency plans, and optimized engineering parameters to meet customer objectives and support future job opportunities.
• Communicating any risks to achieving client objectives through appropriate channels in alignment with Service Delivery Coordinators and Sales teams.
• Documenting all calculations, simulations, design revisions, and changes for visibility, handovers, and audit compliance.
• Providing technical support during job execution, including participation in on‑call rotations as required.
• Reviewing job as‑planned versus as‑executed performance, capturing lessons learned, and recommending procedural and engineering improvements for continuous operational enhancement.
• Supporting field incidents, conducting product/service failure assessments, and participating in incident investigations to determine root causes and corrective actions across planning, preparation, and execution stages.
• Ensuring timely incident management to accelerate customer issue resolution and support cash collection.
• Advising on product improvement opportunities, particularly for repetitive or systemic equipment/component failures.
• Supporting sales efforts by providing technical recommendations, application insights, and customer‑focused engineering support.
• Handling special engineering or operational projects as assigned.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level