Repair & Maintenance Optimization Program Manager

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, quali