Job Summary
The Global Cost Optimization and Repair Manager drives cross-functional cost
optimization across Weatherford Product Lines, using repair, redesign, supplier,
manufacturing, sourcing, and process improvement as key value-creation levers.
With an initial focus on Drilling Services (DS), the role expands proven
approaches across other Product Lines to reduce cost, extend asset life, and
improve reliability.
The role develops and executes cost-reduction initiatives across design,
specifications, materials, sourcing, suppliers, inventory, manufacturing,
repair, and asset reuse.
The role requires strong communication, analytical, and influencing skills to
connect technical, operational, financial, and commercial stakeholders and
deliver safe, scalable, and commercially justified outcomes.
Responsibilities
SAFETY, SECURITY & COMPLIANCE
Maintains the highest standards of corporate governance, ensuring activities
are conducted ethically and in compliance with Company Security, Compliance
and HSE policies, the Management System, relevant laws, regulations,
standards, and industry practices.
Places Quality, Health & Safety, Security, and protection of the Environment
as core values and ensures cost optimization initiatives do not introduce
unacceptable technical or operational risk.
Ensures repair procedures, redesign solutions, supplier qualifications, and
risk-based change approvals comply with applicable engineering, HSE, and
quality requirements.
QUALITY
Maintains service quality as an immediate priority and actively supports
compliance with and improvement of Weatherford’s Management System.
Partners with Engineering and Quality to define, validate, approve, document,
and sustain repair methods, inspection criteria, qualification requirements,
acceptance limits, and controlled technical documentation.
Supports NCR resolution, root-cause analysis, lessons learned, and corrective
and preventive actions related to repaired, redesigned, or optimized
components.
STRATEGY EXECUTION, COST OPTIMIZATION & CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
Contributes to the development of the global cost optimization and repair
strategy and supports its translation into prioritized cross-product-line
initiatives and implementation plans.
Builds and manages a cross-product-line pipeline of cost optimization and
repair initiatives, prioritizing opportunities based on financial value,
reliability, volume, risk, complexity, scalability, and speed to impact.
Identifies high-cost, high-consumption, high-failure, high-scrap,
long-lead-time, or supply-constrained components and works with Engineering
and other stakeholders to develop repair, redesign, sourcing, reuse,
manufacturing, or process-improvement solutions.
Leads cross-functional initiatives from concept through deployment,
coordinating stakeholders, milestones, dependencies, risks, resources,
approvals, and value-realization plans to ensure solutions are technically
sound, commercially justified, and operationally executable.
Identifies gaps and develops or strengthens the processes, workflows,
scorecards, data standards, tools, systems, and operating practices needed to
support consistent execution and measurable value delivery.
Builds upon and continuously improves the existing DS cost optimization and
repair framework, working with Repair Champions and relevant functions to
leverage knowledge, develop capabilities, resolve constraints, and adapt
proven practices and solutions across other Product Lines.
Monitors implementation, adoption, savings, quality, reliability, and
supplier performance and drives corrective actions and continuous improvement
as business needs evolve.
COMMUNICATION
Communicates cost optimization and repair priorities, portfolio status,
process or qualification changes, key risks, decisions required, and
implementation progress across Product Lines, functions, and management
stakeholders.
Leads by influence across functions and geographies, building alignment
through technical, commercial, and operational credibility.
FINANCIAL
Maintains and reports projected and realized savings for cost optimization
and repair initiatives using Finance-approved calculation and validation
methodology.
Works with Finance, Supply Chain, and Operations to link initiatives to
sourcing, inventory, working capital, and P&L impact with appropriate
financial traceability.
PEOPLE & DEVELOPMENT
Maintains a balanced pipeline sufficient to support approved cost-reduction
targets and business priorities across Product Lines and functions.
Achieves consistent use and sustained effectiveness of required processes,
workflows, scorecards, data standards, tools, and operating practices,
including correction of processes that are missing, weak, or not consistently
followed.
Achieves increased adoption and realized value from proven repair and
optimization solutions across Product Lines, locations, and qualified
suppliers.
Achieves timely progression of initiatives through technical review,
qualification, supplier readiness, deployment, and sustainment, with
effective escalation and resolution of constraints.
Reduces cost, scrap, lead time, repeat failures, NCRs, and supply constraints
without compromising safety, quality, reliability, or compliance.
Demonstrates effective cross-functional execution and increased
organizational capability to identify and implement cost optimization
opportunities.
Builds capability across the cost optimization and repair community through
coaching, practical methods, tools, standards, training materials, and
knowledge resources.
Delivers validated annualized and realized savings from cost optimization and
repair initiatives using a transparent, Finance-aligned methodology.
Partners with functional leaders to identify competency and technical-support
needs and promotes collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Measures of Success
Skills/Education Required
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Business, or a
related technical field.
10+ years of progressive experience across engineering, advanced
manufacturing, R&M, supply chain, operations, cost optimization, or technical
program leadership.
Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional cost-reduction initiatives and
deliver measurable financial and operational outcomes in a global, matrixed
organization.
Strong understanding of engineering, manufacturing, repair, sourcing,
supplier qualification, quality, and operational performance drivers.
Demonstrated experience developing or strengthening business processes,
workflows, scorecards, and operating practices in environments where
requirements, systems, or ownership were not fully established.
Strong analytical and financial acumen to develop business cases, evaluate
technical and commercial data, prioritize opportunities, and track value
realization.
Strong communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills across
functions, cultures, Product Lines, and geographies.
Ability to work through ambiguity, adapt priorities, and convert evolving
business needs into practical actions and sustainable improvements.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office and familiarity with ERP, engineering,
repair-tracking, catalogue, workflow, and reporting systems.
Skills/Education Preferred
Experience with oilfield equipment, Drilling Services, global R&M,
manufacturing, or service-network operations.
Experience in repair development, component redesign, design-to-value,
supplier development, localization, technology transfer, lifecycle cost
optimization, or advanced manufacturing.
MBA or master’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, or a related
field.
Lean/Six Sigma, PMP, PE, change-management, or equivalent certification.
Travel Requirement:
This role may require domestic and potentially international travel of up to:
25-50%
About Us:
Weatherford is a leading global energy services company. Our world-class experts
partner with customers to optimize their resources and realize the full
potential of their assets. Across our operating locations, including
manufacturing, research and development, service, and training facilities,
operators choose us for strategic solutions that add efficiency, flexibility,
and responsibility to any energy operation.
When you join Weatherford, you instantly feel connected to something bigger – a
community that is grounded by our core values and driven to create innovative
solutions for our customers. We celebrate each other’s successes, grow together,
and learn from each other constantly. Individually, we are impressive. Together,
we are unstoppable. We are One Weatherford.
Weatherford is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made
without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual
orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran
status or other characteristics protected by law.
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