Are you passionate about driving operational excellence and transforming manufacturing performance?
Would you like to lead Lean transformation initiatives that deliver measurable business impact across a global technology organization?

Join Our Team

At Baker Hughes, we are transforming the future of energy through innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. As a Lean Leader, you will play a critical role in driving operational excellence across our Nailsea site, partnering with leadership teams to enhance safety, quality, delivery, cost, and people performance through Lean Six Sigma methodologies and business transformation initiatives.

Partner with the best

As a Lean Leader, you will serve as the site's senior Continuous Improvement leader, responsible for deploying strategic Lean and Six Sigma initiatives across manufacturing, supply chain, engineering, quality, planning, warehouse, and support functions. You will champion a culture of continuous improvement and embed operational excellence into daily business operations.

Fuel your passion

In this role, you will:

• Developing and executing the site Continuous Improvement roadmap aligned with business objectives.
• Partnering with the Site Leader and leadership team to identify strategic transformation opportunities and improvement priorities.
• Driving Lean Six Sigma projects utilizing DMAIC, Kaizen, Value Stream Mapping, Standard Work, DFSS, and structured problem-solving methodologies.
• Establishing and delivering improvement targets focused on productivity, quality, inventory, cost reduction, OTIF, safety, and customer satisfaction.
• Collaborating with operations leaders to improve labour productivity, throughput, first pass yield, capacity utilization, lead times, and schedule adherence.
• Leading site-wide process optimization and waste elimination initiatives across value streams.
• Coaching and developing leaders and teams in Lean principles, problem solving, and continuous improvement tools.
• Building and sustaining a pipeline of high-impact improvement projects delivering measurable operational and financial benefits.

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Business, or a related discipline.
• Have significant experience in manufacturing, operations, engineering, supply chain, quality, or operational excellence leadership roles.
• Have demonstrated success leading large-scale continuous improvement and business transformation programs.
• Have experience managing complex cross-functional projects and influencing stakeholders at all organizational levels.
• Have a proven track record of delivering measurable productivity, quality, cost, and operational improvements.
• Have Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification; Master Black Belt certification is strongly preferred.
• Have strong analytical, coaching, facilitation, and change management skills.
• Have experience driving data-driven decision making and sustainable operational improvements within a manufacturing environment.

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 flexible working patterns where possible, enabling you to balance your working life and responsibilities outside of work.

Working with us

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all 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 challenge 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.