- Salary
- $84k – $155k
- Location
- US-NV-MINDEN-1631 BENTLY PARKWAY SOUTH, United States of America
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- IT
- Seniority
- Lead
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Source
- Workday
Description
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?
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 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.
As a Manufacturing Team Leader -Test Technicians, you will be responsible for:
- 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?”
To be successful in this role, you will:
- 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.
Preferred:
- 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.
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. 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
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
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.
This position is eligible for our comprehensive and competitive benefits package, which can be found here, and is further eligible for additional forms of compensation such as bonuses subject to the terms of the applicable benefit plans or policies.
The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: Manufacturing Team leader - Operations Management
