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Baker Hughes

Makes oilfield equipment and gas turbines

Digital Technology Senior Specialist - Application Operations Engineering

Enterprise ApplicationsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeHouston, TX, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a STEM major (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) is required, along with a minimum of 6 years of professional experience.
  • Experience with agile or iterative project methodology such as Scrum is required; experience using agile project management tools such as JIRA or Rally is preferred.
  • ITIL certification is required.

Responsibilities

  • Manage a vendor support team of technical and functional experts and interact directly with other cross-functional support teams to resolve production application issues in a timely manner.
  • Work with business and IT leaders and users to prioritize critical issues and work toward resolution.
  • Ensure conformance to generic ERP Operations support standards and practices.
  • Coach and monitor contingent staff in ERP Operations support standards and practices.
  • Manage internal IT processes, including the Change Control Board, patch application testing, and coordination and communication for outages.
  • Conduct performance and operations reviews for leadership and stakeholders using established Service Delivery metrics, and own those metrics.
  • Own and be responsible for reducing open cases, root-cause analyses, recurring issues, service-level agreement issues, and turnaround time.
  • Work with cross-profit-and-loss teams to ensure system availability and minimize planned and unplanned outages.
  • Work with the IM Risk and Security team to ensure SOX and controllership requirements are met, including policies, standards, and documentation, and ensure ERP compliance.
  • Serve as a domain and ERP expert and drive operational excellence and stabilization of Operations into the OM process area.
  • Guide and direct the team in OM and Supply Chain areas, using expertise to help the team overcome roadblocks.
  • Build relationships with multiple stakeholders, including IM owners, business points of contact, support teams, and end users, and maintain regular contact with functional stakeholders through meetings.
  • Act as the single point of contact for escalations, ensure they are addressed appropriately, and communicate continuously.
  • Receive and resolve Voice of the Customer feedback and relay it to leadership.
  • Partner with P&L and lead mandatory compliance, productivity, and business initiatives beyond day-to-day operations.
  • Collaborate across the IM Operations team and lead initiatives as part of the Grid Solutions Application Support team, as required.
  • Maintain relationships with peers and vendors to integrate the program into the overall Grid Solutions strategic organization objectives and activities.

Desired Qualifications

  • Previous experience managing cross-functional operations or initiatives and challenging stakeholders.
  • A global mindset and ability to manage and collaborate across a broad and diverse set of customers and stakeholders.
  • Ability to identify and analyze technical risks and impacts quickly, define alternatives, and prioritize actions to remove roadblocks.
  • Experience with Operations management methodologies and their effective use for business benefits.
  • Ability to provide status updates at all organizational levels according to a communication plan.
  • Significant customer-facing experience.
  • Ability to coach and train, and motivate a team to adopt standards and methodologies.
  • Extensive experience solving challenging technical issues in a high-pressure environment.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills.
  • Analytical, creative, and business-focused problem-solving ability.

About the Company

Baker Hughes

Makes oilfield equipment and gas turbines

Baker Hughes makes equipment and runs field services for oil and gas producers, LNG plant operators, pipeline companies and industrial power users. Its products cover the whole gas chain, from drill bits and well completions to the compressors and turbines that chill natural gas into liquid for export. Its oilfield arm drills, completes and maintains wells, while its industrial arm designs, builds and services turbomachinery, valves and monitoring software. It earns money from equipment sales, project work and long-term service agreements that keep installed machines running. The current company formed in 2017 when Baker Hughes combined with GE's oil and gas business, and it is based in Houston.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Houston, TX
Founded
1972

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