Is Baker Hughes’ Celle facility discreetly downsizing its workforce under the radar? It appears that local management has mastered the fine art of corporate secrecy—quietly orchestrating layoffs while carefully sidestepping unwanted attention from... — read more 

From PE Hub, Druck, Reuter-Stokes, and Parametrics, are up for sale and offers have been initiated. Google it

Is IPS in danger of a reduction and workforce? They already have a skeleton crew as it is.

Who is the SAP implementation Partner for SAP S4HANA & Central Finance? BH is wasting millions of dollars for this failure project, many of the Implementation team has knowledge only in Excel and in power point, no Knowledge in business nor in SAP

It's all starting again in Aberdeen as heard today from my manager baker will be getting rid of 20% of north sea employee's the next 6 months, futher redundancies to follow with pay cuts.

And so, amid the flickering glow of malfunctioning Power BI dashboards and cascading alerts, Baker Hughers pressed on, its corporate heart beating an irregular rhythm. From the ruins of Cloud Tower and the smoldering shop floor, a new figure emerged:... — read more 

What have you heard as far as the grinding plant in Morgan city, Louisiana being sold off by Baker.

Rumour mill says all non-Engineering operations for Drilling Services at HTC are being closed down. Layoffs across Supply Chain, AMO, Manufacturing.

Hit the manufacturing floor pretty hard today at the Woodlands location. Essentially got rid of a whole department.

Why don’t we change perspective and try fixing things from the top down? Instead of putting the front line in such a bind that it forces change, how about stop creating unrealistic business plans and swapping the wannabe managers around expecting... — read more 

When this restructuring gonna stop? I guess more is expected in the operations side also

Ah, here in the sprawling ecosystem of modern corporate folly, we find Baker Hughes, a once-proud multinational oil-and-gas conglomerate, now in the delicate throes of transformation—or as some might say, a slow-motion implosion. Much like watching... — read more 

— A Corporate Tale of Optimizations, Chaos, and Synergy After the Great Unburdening—when managers and regular folks were ceremoniously yeeted into the sunset with small severance packages and no promises of a cushy future—CTO Krebs stood proudly... — read more 

This plant is the worst

Hearing that Aramco have bought over Surface Pressure Control. With FPS merging into SP&S perhaps one big sell off... ?

Whole reclaim department was layed off and all reclaim operations moving to Mexico.

Well, after months of planning on getting the next Baleine order it isn't happening. Just like Baleine they are confident they are going to win TP. The only contracts being awarded at the Montrose COE will be to the demolition contractors to come in... — read more 

The news is not good. 1.2% and at the very highest 3%.

I can say for a fact layoffs are happening in Sugarland right now. High level managers gone today. Restructuring is continuing.

Any word on layoffs at the Woodlands location?

If you are one of those who either left BKR or laid off before, and have applied to numerous jobs at BKR, but only got the dreaded email: We have received your application for the position of... — read more 

It has just begun.

I wonder why any post on GD in NPI gets always removed. I hope that the BH moral police that patrols this site that patrols this site does not get laid off in the next round otherwise the he-l might break loose on this site.

There seems to be a lot of people leaving the business, some of their own choice but some as stealth redundancies (BH usual). Anyone have any inside info?

Are we about to see layoffs in pursuit of profitable growth

Rumor is HE might be reassigned. Is that true? This would be a huge win in terms of scrap dollars!

When will they finally be on the way out or up? Hopefully soon while it’s still salvageable. Dip$hit management overseeing dip$hit managers makes for a $hitty day at sea on this sinking ship! At least put couple women in there that have a mechanical... — read more 

Interesting changes… Let’s get a thread going. Thoughts?

Emmott loves to scrap parts, by the tens of thousands every week to multiple millions a year without consequence. What will happen to Emmott if tariffs are actually implemented, and they continue to scrap hundreds of thousands every month? Can jobs... — read more 

People in sourcing/Proj management cut. Some in engineering being sent to Vietnam. Does anyone know what’s up in Nailsea?

Montrose management are once again stringing on the workers saying that they should have an answer on the TP contract this month - exactly what they said in September. Now they are talking about shift changes, sending workers to Angola and Nigeria... — read more 

LOI has been sent out to multiple companies. Offers to buy will start coming in Q2 with final acceptance by Q3.

SLB and Chevron announced restructuring in last two days, and other ofs and majors have or similar rumors. Will BH say we already did this a year ago or will they keep offshoring bc it’s what all the cool kids are doing.

Any rumours regarding the closure of some of the Aberdeen bases?

I assume Baker Hughes will now follow our presidents stance on DEI ?

Going by the the 2024 financial results we have one of the best years on records and are ahead on reaching out EBIDTA targets. This of course seems a bit in contrast with the situation on the ground. Wonder whether it is high time to leverage this... — read more 

Since when did it become speaking up about concerns and pushing back on bringing in new material if it doesn’t make sense a RUN AND COMPLAIN ABOUT SOMEONE NOT COLLABORATING, I have come to hate that word, seems like for some snakes TS, EC, that is... — read more 

When Trump drops the price of oil expect layoffs to start happening. Drill baby drill will not happen.

It is one years since MCB's 15 infamous webcast announcing the last re-org. When are we going to get the next one? Can't wait and I don't understand why we don't do this more often, we save on tune of 100/150 millions every time. If we do it every... — read more