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 customerfacing 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 highperformance 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 highquality engineering support. You will lead risk mitigation, job planning, technical design, troubleshooting, and postjob analysis to strengthen service performance. You will collaborate across functions and partner closely with customers to enhance operational outcomes and support business growth.

As an Area Technical Applications Manager, you will be responsible for:

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 outcomebased or lineitem 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 oncall rotations as required.

Reviewing job asplanned versus asexecuted 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 customerfocused engineering support.

Handling special engineering or operational projects as assigned.

To be successful in this role you will:

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 customerfocused approach withproven experience managing and supporting key customer accounts.

Have the ability to participate in an oncall 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 problemsolving skills.

Have the ability to travel up to 25% for customer visits, team support, and field operations.

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone works differently, and that flexibility helps people perform at their best. In this role, we offer:

Flexibility to work remotely within the United States, with a preference for candidates based in or near Denver, Colorado.

Remote leadership expectations, supporting a geographically distributed team across multiple states.

Travel of approximately 25% (one week per month) for customer visits, team support, field reviews, and operational needs.

Working with us

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged, and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and wellbeing of our workforce, train and reward talent, and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.

Working for you

Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep moving forward tomorrow, we know we have to push boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their contributions. When you join us, you can expect:

Contemporary worklife 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

Contemporary worklife 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

The annual pay scale for this position is between $1,17,060.00 - $2,64,440.00.

Candidates for this role (office-based/ hybrid/ remote) must be located in or near the locations displayed above. The pay range/scale displayed above represents Baker Hughes' good faith estimate of the minimum and maximum for this position at the time of this posting and applies to the possible locations for this position. Baker Hughes will issue a non-bias competitive offer; the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hires, full-time salaries in some U.S. locations, not including equity or benefits. Where an applicant will ultimately fall within the pay range/scale depends on a variety of factors, including, for example, geographic work location, skillset, qualifications, internal pay alignment, level of experience, and demonstrated performance over time. Please keep in mind that the range stated above is the full base salary range for the role and does not include other forms of compensation. Your recruiter can share more about the pay range for this position during the hiring process.

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.

You will be eligible to participate in the Baker Hughes Short-term incentive plan applicable for the above position. The actual payout for your short-term incentive award will be based on company and individual performance and is

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