Gas Turbine Industrialization Director (M/F/D)
Baker Hughes
- Location
- FLORENCE, Italy
- Employment
- Full Time
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Staff
- H-1B history
- 2 approvals (FY2023)
- Posted
- Sep 21, 2026
About this role
Do you enjoy working with cutting-edge technology? Would you like to help shape the future of our global energy? Join our Team! Partner with the best The Industrialization Leader is accountable for the operational discipline required to maintain a controlled, repeatable, scalable, and execution-ready product environment. The role focuses on four priorities: configuration management, product stewardship, continuous improvement, and cross-functional coordination. The position works closely with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Service, Program Management, and Product Management while retaining execution ownership within the accountable functions. This role is designed for a strong cross-functional leader who can create structure, decision clarity, and accountability across a complex product environment while supporting product strategy and lifecycle objectives. In this role, you will be responsible for: Configuration Management Maintain visibility of product configurations and support controlled alignment across design, manufacturing, and service environments. Prevent unnecessary proliferation of variants and ensure configuration decisions remain documented and traceable. Support effective change management and configuration control processes. Product Stewardship Facilitate decision-making related to product changes, technical issues, quality concerns, serviceability, and operational readiness. Escalate unresolved issues when needed and maintain clear accountability for actions and decisions. Ensure alignment between product objectives and execution activities. Product Sustainment & Continuous Improvement Maintain and prioritize the portfolio of product enhancement and sustainment initiatives. Coordinate with functional teams to ensure timely execution and closure of approved initiatives. Drive structured continuous improvement activities that enhance product performance, reliability, manufacturability, and serviceability. Simplification & Standardization Develop and coordinate initiatives that improve product efficiency, reduce complexity, and promote standardization. Track progress, risks, dependencies, and realization of improvement opportunities. Facilitate collaboration across teams to remove barriers to implementation. Cross-Functional Coordination Create a unified view of priorities, actions, risks, and decisions across participating functions. Ensure alignment between stakeholders and provide fact-based inputs to support leadership decision-making. Promote clear ownership, communication, and execution discipline across the organization. Fuel your passion To be successful in this role you will: Engineering or supply chain background with experience supporting complex engineered products or systems. Experience with gas turbines, power generation equipment, turbomachinery or long-cycle industrial systems. Experience coordinating cross-functional work across Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Service, Program Management, and Product Management. Understanding of configuration management, engineering change processes, product lifecycle support, and continuous improvement methodologies. Ability to influence without direct authority and drive accountability across multiple functions. Strong communication, problem-solving, facilitation, and decision-making skills. Preferred Familiarity with configuration control, product support processes, quality management practices, and continuous improvement initiatives. Experience supporting industrialization, manufacturing readiness, operational constraints, or field feedback integration. Lean, Six Sigma, or equivalent continuous improvement experience. What Success Looks Like Clear visibility and control of product configurations and variants. Consistent and timely resolution of product-related decisions and issues. Well-managed portfolio of sustainment and improvement initiatives with clear ownership and strong closure discipline. Transparent pipeline of simplification,