Senior Lab Technician - Drilling and Completions Fluids

Are you able to work with teams to ensure on-time delivery?

Do you like working in collaborative teams and solving technical problems?

Join our innovating Drilling & Completion Fluids Team

Our Drilling and Completion Fluids business provides intelligent, connected technologies to support, monitor and control drilling processes. We provide innovative solutions across multiple geographies. Providing customers with the excellent solutions needed to improve their operations reliably and efficiently.

Partner with the best

This position delivers detailed lab testing and analytical work to support product and system design, project troubleshooting and performance analysis.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

·         Performing pilot testing on drilling and completion fluids on proposed mud program recipes and actual field mud and/or brine samples, when required.

·         Performing QA/QC on products as required.

·         Repairing, maintaining and calibrating site testing equipment. Plan new equipment purchase as required.

·         Analysing corrosion coupons recovered from the field and provide the corrosion technical report.

·         Running core flow tests to evaluate and select optimum mud cake breaker formulation.

·         Running PPA/PPT (permeability Plugging Apparatus/Test), laser PSD (Particle Size Distribution) analyser to evaluate and designing RDF (Reservoir Drill-In fluids) and Low invasion Coring Fluids

·         Monitoring and maintaining safe stock level of al lab consumables and spare parts for smooth operations.

·         Providing support to incident investigations and RCA.

·         Ensuring that laboratory and lab equipment are maintained and organized.

·         Providing mentorship and supervision to DCF Lab operations as required.

·         Collaborating with remote teams to share technical knowledge, theories, and actions to provide prompt and successful resolution to inquiries and issues.

Fuel your passion

To be successful in this role you will:

Have a Bachelor Degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering or Petroleum/Mechanical EngineeringHave a minimum of 5+ years of experience working in a Drilling Fluids Lab as a Lab Technician or Technical Support Engineer. 10 years of experience is desirable.Have previous experience in oil base fluids and water base fluids Have experience in drilling fluids design, applications, and performance.Be Technically competent to run all Drilling Fluids API related SpecsBe independent working in the lab and have Excellent Planning, interpersonal and influencing skills.Have excellent organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.Have the ability to travel (potential for travel to rig sites, customer facilities, meetings, training, etc.)

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 require:

Please discuss your preferred working patterns with the recruiter during the process

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 have to push the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their input. 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