Quality Specialist - QA Engineering

Quality Specialist – QA Engineering, Pressure Pumping

Driving Equipment Reliability, Quality Assurance, and Compliance Across Pressure Pumping Operations

Baker Hughes is a global energy technology company serving the oil and gas sector across more than 120 countries. The Pressure Pumping team supports customer well construction, stimulation, cementing, acidizing, and production enhancement activities through safe field execution, reliable equipment performance, and strong service quality. By applying robust quality assurance, engineering discipline, and continuous improvement, the team helps reduce defects, improve equipment reliability, and deliver consistent operational performance.

Fuel your passion

The Quality Specialist – QA Engineering role supports Pressure Pumping operations by ensuring that high-pressure fracturing, cementing, acidizing, and auxiliary equipment are inspected, tested, maintained, and released in accordance with Baker Hughes standards, customer requirements, and applicable industry standards including API, ISO, ASME, and DS-1. This role focuses on equipment integrity, defect reduction, failure analysis, corrective and preventive action management, vendor quality, and documentation control to support safe and reliable field operations.

As the Quality Specialist – QA Engineering, Pressure Pumping, you will have the following responsibilities:

• Oversee equipment integrity and quality readiness by reviewing pre-job inspections, pressure testing, function testing, and release documentation for frac pumps, cementing units, blenders, hydration units, acidizing equipment, manifolds, high-pressure iron, and auxiliary equipment.

• Lead and support failure analysis, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA), and reliability improvement initiatives for equipment failures, non-productive time, repeat defects, and field quality events.

• Ensure compliance with Baker Hughes quality management systems, customer requirements, API Q1/Q2, ISO 9001, ASME, DS-1, pressure control requirements, and applicable maintenance and operational procedures.

• Conduct quality assessments, process audits, equipment audits, and maintenance workflow reviews to identify gaps, verify compliance, and drive corrective actions across pressure pumping operations.

• Manage and review Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs), Non-Conformance Reports (NCRs), equipment turnover dossiers, inspection records, pressure test charts, calibration records, and quality release packages.

• Support vendor and supply chain quality by inspecting or reviewing raw materials, spare parts, redress kits, pressure control components, and critical consumables to reduce premature field failures and service quality risks.

• Track quality performance indicators, defect trends, audit findings, equipment reliability data, and CAPA effectiveness to support continuous improvement and management reporting.

• Work closely with operations, maintenance, engineering, HSE, supply chain, vendors, and field teams to promote a strong quality culture, improve equipment reliability, and ensure safe and compliant service delivery.

To be successful in this role, you will:

• Have a bachelor’s degree in Engineering, preferably in Mechanical, Petroleum, Industrial, Chemical, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical quality and field operations experience.

• Have experience in quality assurance, quality engineering, equipment reliability, maintenance quality, or field service quality within oilfield services, pressure Engineering JDpumping, well services, or heavy industrial operations.

• Demonstrate knowledge of pressure pumping equipment such as frac pumps, cementing units, blenders, hydration units, acidizing systems, high-pressure iron, manifolds, pressure control components, and auxiliary equipment.

• Understand quality management systems and industry standards such as API Q1/Q2, ISO 9001, ASME, DS-1, inspection requirements, pressure testing, calibration, NCR, RCA, and CAPA processes.

• Be able to interpret technical drawings, inspection reports, pressure test records, maintenance history, failure data, equipment dossiers, and quality documentation to support risk-based decisions.

• Show strong analytical, troubleshooting, auditing, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to drive corrective actions through cross-functional teams.

• Be committed to HSE, compliance, operational discipline, service quality, defect prevention, and continuous improvement in pressure pumping operations.

• Have good communication skills in English, both written and verbal, with the ability to prepare clear reports, explain quality findings, and influence operational improvements.

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 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

The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: Quality Specialist - QA Engineering