Senior Principal Engineer – Production Controls Systems (PCS)
Baker Hughes · United Kingdom
Senior Principal Engineer – Production Controls Systems (PCS)
Are you passionate about driving technical excellence in complex engineering systems?
Would you like to be recognized as a technical authority within a global engineering organization?
Join our Baker Hughes Team!
Our Oilfield Services business provides intelligent, connected technologies to monitor and control energy assets. Our Production Controls Systems engineering organisation develops, integrates and supports complex topside and subsea control solutions across the product lifecycle. The team provides multidisciplinary technical expertise to deliver safe, reliable and compliant solutions that meet customer, product and business requirements.
Partner with the best
As a Senior Principal Engineer – Production Controls Systems, you will operate within the Technical Oversight career path and serve as a controlled Technical Title Holder (TTH) for the PCS technical domain. You will provide technical leadership, engineering governance and systems engineering expertise across relevant products, projects and disciplines.
Working within a global, multidisciplinary engineering environment, you will act as a trusted technical advisor, providing independent technical challenge and helping ensure engineering excellence, appropriate governance, compliance and delivery of reliable customer-focused solutions.
As a Senior Principal Engineer – Production Controls Systems, you will be responsible for:
- Providing technical leadership and guidance across the full range of Production Controls Systems products and engineering activities.
- Acting as a Technical Title Holder (TTH) and ensuring engineering activities comply with applicable technical standards, processes, and governance requirements.
- Applying systems engineering principles throughout the product lifecycle including requirements management, architecture, interface management, configuration control, verification, validation and technical-risk management to ensure robust and reliable solutions.
- Reviewing and approving complex engineering designs, technical documentation, and development activities.
- Supporting resolution of complex technical challenges and providing recommendations for effective solutions.
- Championing engineering best practices, design procedures, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Collaborating with global engineering teams, product management, manufacturing, quality, and project stakeholders.
- Leading technical reviews, risk assessments, root cause investigations, and corrective action activities.
- Ensuring products meet customer requirements, safety standards, environmental regulations, and applicable industry requirements.
- Providing coaching, mentoring, and technical development support to engineers across the organization.
- Supporting strategic technology development and contributing to the long-term engineering roadmap of the PCS business.
- Providing technical engagement with customers, suppliers and external technical or industry bodies.
- Identifying technical capability and competency-development needs; supporting mentoring, knowledge sharing, formal learning and structured on-the-job development.
- Mentoring early-career, mid-career and Principal Engineers and supporting development of future TTHs.
Fuel your passion
To be successful in this role, you will
- Have a bachelor’s degree, or equivalent demonstrated professional competence, in Automation and Control, Systems Engineering, Electrical or Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering or another discipline relevant to the approved PCS technical domain. An advanced degree, Chartered Engineer status or equivalent professional recognition is desirable.
- Have significant relevant experience in Production Control System engineering within Baker Hughes or a comparable complex, safety, or reliability-critical engineering environment.
- Have knowledgeable experience in the Mechanical, Electrical, Electronic and System aspects of Production Control Systems to compliment the Software TTH roles.
- Demonstrate extensive technical expertise and engineering leadership across multiple products and disciplines.
- Have strong knowledge of systems engineering principles, product development processes, and engineering governance.
- Possess excellent problem-solving, decision-making, and technical communication skills.
- Be capable of influencing engineering strategy and driving alignment across global teams.
- Have experience leading technical reviews, design assurance activities, and risk management processes.
- Demonstrate the ability to mentor, coach, and develop engineering talent.
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:
- 4 day from office
- 1 days from home (remote)
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 well-being 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 going forward tomorrow, we know we must continue pushing boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their contribution.
Join us, and 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
- Additional elected or voluntary benefits
This role is suited to a highly experienced engineering professional who can provide technical authority, independent assurance and multidisciplinary leadership while influencing engineering strategy, developing people and supporting delivery of complex Production Controls Systems solutions across a global organisation.
The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: Senior Principal, Mechanical, Engineering Management