Manufacturing Team Leader -Test Technicians

Manufacturing Team Leader
-Test Technicians

Are you passionate about leading technical teams on the shop floor, driving troubleshooting excellence, and building a high-performing manufacturing workforce?

Do you thrive in fast-paced manufacturing environments where you can enhance technician capability, improve repair efficiency, and deliver operational excellence through cross-functional collaboration?

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.

The Tech Team Lead is responsible for deploying technician capability across the Monitoring Systems value stream to support repair discipline, troubleshooting effectiveness, work center readiness, and daily execution priorities. This role partners closely with Manufacturing Operations, Frontline Supervisors, Manufacturing Engineering, Test Engineering, Quality, Materials and Planning, Maintenance and Facilities, HSE, Training and Learning, HR, and Product / Technology Engineering. Ensure technician talent is aligned to production needs, skill level, technical complexity, and business outcomes.

The Tech Team Lead reinforces a repair-first mindset, supports technician development and work center rotation, improves escalation discipline, strengthens technician-to-engineering communication.

• Converting technician role definitions into consistent shop floor execution.
• Ensuring technicians are used as problem-solvers as well as Daily Management delivery specialists.
• Supporting technician progression through structured exposure, mentoring, and work center rotation.
• Focusing and developing repair velocity, troubleshooting discipline, fixture readiness, and Engineering engagement.
• Creating visibility to technician capability gaps impacting flow, yield, and delivery.
• Improving downtime recovery, yield, repair discipline, and technical workforce scalability.
• Deploying technician skills based on work center need, issue complexity, and business priority.
• Reinforcing the repair-first mindset: "What can I repair today?"

• Have bachelor’s degree in Engineering from an accredited university or college (with at least 4 years of experience in Manufacturing).
• Have demonstrated experience in manufacturing, test, repair, troubleshooting, or technical operations environment.
• Have strong understanding of shop floor execution, work center flow, production priorities, and daily operational constraints.
• Have experience developing technical problem-solving in areas such as product test, repair, rework, fixture support, equipment troubleshooting, or process improvement.
• Manage an operation, business, unit, or part of a production facility in order to reach defined targets in quality, cost, delivery and safety.
• Ensure continuous business improvement according to benchmarks and standards.

• Have Electrical Engineering degree.
• Have ability to distinguish between production execution issues, technician capability gaps, Engineering-owned issues, Quality issues, and equipment or fixture-related constraints.
• Have working knowledge of standard work, work instructions, manufacturing documentation, and escalation processes.

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. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

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…