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DCF Central Fulfilment Leader

Are you an experienced operations leader with a passion for building high-performing global fulfillment organizations, driving standardization, and improving operational efficiency across diverse geographies?

Do you enjoy collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to strengthen supply chain execution, maximize asset reliability, and support business growth through disciplined operational governance and continuous improvement?

Partnering with the best

Baker Hughes is a global energy technology company serving customers in more than 120 countries. We design, manufacture, and deliver industry-leading solutions that support energy extraction, production, and processing. Our commitment to innovation and operational excellence drives safer, cleaner, and more efficient energy solutions worldwide.

Fueling Your Passion

The Drilling & Completion Fluids Central Fulfillment Leader is accountable for the global operational strategy, governance, and execution of DCF Central Fulfillment activities across Liquid Mud Plants (LMPs), Fluid Environmental Services (FES), Asset Management, Assembly Maintenance & Overhaul (AMO), and operational systems deployment.

The successful candidate will serve as the partner to DCF leadership, Commercial, Technology, and Product Management teams on infrastructure and assets required to deliver flawless service to our customers.

This role requires strong global leadership, operational discipline, financial acumen, and the ability to drive standardization and execution across a geographically dispersed operating footprint.

The successful candidate must be capable of operating as the single point of accountability for DCF Central Fulfillment performance globally, ensuring strong governance, standardization, and execution across manufacturing, tolling, LMPs, AMO, FES, asset management, and operational systems.

This leader will bring the operational depth, business judgment, and execution discipline required to support DCF growth, improve global fulfillment reliability, strengthen working capital performance, and deliver measurable contribution to Baker Hughes' profitability.

As a DCF Central Fulfilment Leader , you will be responsible for:

Global Operational Excellence

• Leading global infrastructure and capex strategy for DCF LMP, AMO, FES, and associated fulfillment operations.
• Driving consistent execution across regions to improve HSE, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, and customer fulfillment.
• Ensuring infrastructure operational readiness to support customer campaigns, regional growth, project startups, and business expansion.

Liquid Mud Plants, AMO & FES Asset Performance

• Establishing and govern global operating standards, KPIs, rhythms, and performance management processes.
• Establishing standard operating models for LMPs, AMO workshops, and FES operations across regions.
• Partnering with regional service delivery teams to improve reliability, operating efficiency, and execution discipline.
• Providing global oversight for Liquid Mud Plants, AMO locations, FES assets, and related operational infrastructure.
• Managing asset deployment, utilization, lifecycle management, maintenance performance, and operational uptime.
• Driving productivity, reliability, capacity utilization, and cost improvement across the global DCF asset base.
• Supporting regional teams in resolving operational constraints impacting customer delivery and asset readiness.

To be successful in this role you will:

Education

• Have Bachelor's degree in supply chain, Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, Chemistry, Business, Logistics, or related technical discipline.
• Have MBA, Master's degree, or advanced qualification in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, or Business preferred.
• Have Lean Six Sigma, APICS, PMP, or relevant operational excellence certification preferred.

Experience

• Have minimum 12 years of progressive experience in supply chain, manufacturing, fulfillment, operations, asset management, or service delivery.
• Have minimum 5 years in leadership roles managing complex operations, manufacturing networks, or geographically dispersed teams
• Have demonstrated experience leading manufacturing, blending, tolling, AMO, asset management, or field support operations for Drilling and Completion Fluids
• Have experience managing global or multi-region operational footprints with strong exposure to customer-facing execution.
• Have proven success delivering operational productivity, cost reduction, margin improvement, working capital improvement, and cash generation.
• Have strong knowledge of Oilfield Services, chemical manufacturing, process industries, or industrial manufacturing environments preferred.
• Have experience with toll manufacturing, supplier qualification, external manufacturing governance, or third-party production models preferred.
• Have experience working with SAP, planning systems, manufacturing systems, asset management tools, and operational dashboards.
• Have strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills with the ability to use KPIs to drive performance improvement.
• Have strong commercial and financial acumen with ability to connect operational decisions to EBITDA, cash flow, margin, and customer fulfillment.
• Have effective leadership skills with a track record of building high-performing teams, managing change, and creating a culture of accountability.
• Have strong stakeholder management skills with ability to influence and align senior leaders across Commercial, Operations, Finance, Manufacturing, Technology, Quality, Sourcing, Logistics, and Supply Chain.

Technical Skills Requirement

The successful candidate should demonstrate strong technical capability in:

• Liquid Mud Plant design, construction and operations
• Fluid Environmental Services (FES) Asset management, deployment and utilization
• Asset reliability and lifecycle management
• Manufacturing operations management
• Chemical blending or process manufacturing
• Capacity planning, network optimization and capital management
• Supplier capability assessment, qualification and development
• Health, Safety, Environmental and Quality management systems

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too.

Working with us

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are stronger when our people are developed, engaged, and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work. We invest in wellbeing, capability development, and leadership growth across all levels.

Working for you

Our innovations have transformed the energy industry for over a century. To continue progressing, we look for individuals who embrace change and contribute to building the future.

What You Can Expect

• Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities
• Comprehensive private medical care options
• Safety net of life insurance and disability programs
• Tailored financial programs
• Education assistance
• Generous parental leave
• Mental health resources
• Dependent care support
• Additional elected or voluntary benefits

This position requires valid work authorization in the country of employment. The employer is unable to sponsor work authorization for this role at any time.