Field Specialist – Well Testing Project

Leading Well Testing Execution, Team Coordination, and Service Excellence at the Wellsite

Baker Hughes is a global energy technology company serving the oil and gas sector across more than 120 countries. The Well Testing Project team supports customer exploration, appraisal, completion, production, and intervention activities by delivering safe and reliable well testing, flowback, clean-up, surface testing, production testing, pressure control, data acquisition, and related wellsite services. By combining technical expertise, supervisory discipline, and strong field execution, the team helps customers evaluate reservoir performance, confirm well deliverability, and make informed operational decisions.

Fuel your passion

The Field Specialist role supports Well Testing Projects by leading safe and efficient field execution, coordinating team members during wellsite activities, ensuring equipment and job readiness, and driving service excellence throughout the job cycle. This role works closely with customers, supervisors, engineers, logistics, maintenance, HSE, and field crews to deliver high-quality well testing services, resolve operational challenges, and maintain reliable performance at the wellsite.

As the Field Specialist – Well Testing Project, you will have the following responsibilities:

• Lead the safe and efficient execution of well testing activities at the wellsite, including pre-job preparation, rig-up, pressure testing, flow operations, sampling, data acquisition, flowback, clean-up, rig-down, and demobilization.

• Coordinate and guide field team members during daily operations to ensure clear task allocation, effective communication, disciplined shift handover, and alignment with the approved well testing program.

• Drive service excellence by ensuring jobs are delivered safely, on time, and in accordance with customer requirements, Baker Hughes standards, operating procedures, and service quality expectations.

• Prepare, inspect, operate, and support readiness of well testing equipment, including test separators, choke manifolds, flowlines, burners, tanks, pressure control equipment, sand management equipment, emergency shutdown systems, and data acquisition systems.

• Monitor wellsite parameters, including pressure, temperature, flow rate, choke size, fluid properties, sand production, separator performance, gas rate, liquid rate, and operational trends; escalate issues and support corrective actions when required.

• Support team capability by mentoring junior crew members, reinforcing safe work practices, sharing technical knowledge, and promoting a positive, disciplined, and customer-focused field environment.

• Maintain accurate field documentation, including daily reports, well testing reports, job tickets, equipment checklists, pressure test records, sampling records, HSE documentation, lessons learned, and close-out reports.

• Communicate job progress, operational concerns, equipment status, safety observations, and service quality updates to supervisors, customers, engineers, and cross-functional teams to support reliable project delivery.

To be successful in this role, you will:

• Have a high school diploma, technical diploma, or bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical discipline, with relevant practical field experience in oil and gas well testing operations.

• Have a minimum of 8 years’ experience in oil and gas well testing, surface testing, production testing, flowback, clean-up, or related wellsite service operations.

• Demonstrate the ability to lead field execution, coordinate team members, support job readiness, and maintain strong service quality during well testing operations.

• Show good knowledge of well testing equipment, pressure control, test separators, choke manifolds, burners, tanks, flowlines, sand management, sampling, data acquisition, and surface testing package operations.

• Be able to monitor wellsite data, identify operational deviations, troubleshoot equipment or process issues, and support timely corrective actions in fast-paced field environments.

• Have proven ability to mentor junior crew members, promote teamwork, support safe work execution, and contribute to a service excellence culture at the wellsite.

• Be committed to HSE, compliance, service quality, environmental responsibility, pressure control discipline, and safe execution of all well testing project activities.

• Have good communication skills in English, both written and verbal, with the ability to prepare clear field reports, provide operational updates, and communicate effectively with customers and internal teams.

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