Lead Designer - CAD

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, coordinate design teams, establish drafting processes, and develop standardized templates, drawings, specifications, and Bills of Materials.

Responsibilities

• Plan and organize design activities with clear schedules, priorities, and corrective actions when progress falls below plan.
• Generate mechanical designs from engineering specifications and verify designs against manufacturing and assembly practices, including tolerance studies and fit‑for‑function validation.
• Follow Design Process Management (DPM) processes and ensure compliance with drawing standards.
• Define and manage design deliverables to meet contractual and third‑party requirements.
• Interpret engineering requirements and define dimensions and tolerances to meet fit, form, and function criteria.
• Secure and coordinate design resources in collaboration with engineers, monitoring progress to completion.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate hazards, ensuring designs meet HSE requirements and incorporate lessons learned.
• Create layout, detail, and assembly designs addressing safety, environmental, and structural considerations.
• Drive continuous improvement through risk reduction, cost reduction, and performance enhancement initiatives.
• Create work packs, review drawings, develop test procedures, and lead small design teams.
• Produce layout, detail, fabrication, and assembly drawings in accordance with ASME Y14.5 standards.
• Develop 3‑D models and drawings suitable for manufacture using company parametric practices.
• Create and maintain Bills of Materials in documentation systems for engineering approval.
• Support design verification activities, including tolerance analysis, design reviews, manufacturability, and basic calculations.
• Create basic FAT procedures, prototype test procedures, and document results for approval.
• Ensure all design documentation is correctly archived within electronic document management systems.
• Apply design‑for‑manufacture principles for machining, welding, and fabrication processes.

Qualifications

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.

Benefits

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

Baker Hughes Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.