Job Description

Are you a motivated leader with a passion for innovation, safety, and team development? We’re hiring a Lab Manager to oversee operations in our Materials Laboratory. In this role, you’ll lead a talented team of professionals, manage daily lab activities, and ensure testing excellence across our organization.

The Lab Manager is responsible for coordinating staff development, setting performance goals, managing budgets, and maintaining compliance with NOV’s HSE standards and procedures. You’ll oversee scheduling, equipment calibration, resource allocation, and process improvement to ensure the lab operates efficiently and safely.

Primary Responsibilities 

• Manage and coordinate the activities of staff including training, employee development, performance evaluation, hiring decisions, and the establishment of goals and performance objectives for assigned department. 
• Provide continual evaluation of department processes, methods, and activities to assure the most effective use of resources and equipment. 
• Manage budget and expenditures. 
• Implement JHA’s and SOP’s.
• Schedule and plan all materials lab work.
• Perform other work related tasks as assigned, to include various equipment calibrations and maintenance, procurement of consumables and monthly HSE training.
• Comply with all NOV Company and HSE policies and procedures 

Facility/ Group Specific Responsibilities

• Ensure that all actions performed at the Materials Lab are done in a safe manner including working with HSE to analyze all risk associated with these actions.
• Ensure the Materials Lab has the correct resources to complete all testing required by the organization including monitor budgets to ensure they are being used appropriately. 
• Proactively manage the budget and resource demand. 
• Ensure that all direct reports can complete their required duties and provide leadership and management to those direct reports. 
• Provide Engineering recommendations to verify that the lab will be able to perform any future testing.
• Work between Downhole and ReedHycalog needs and balance the lab usage between the two groups as best as possible. 

Education & Experience Qualifications

• BS in an engineering field preferred and materials lab experience a plus 
• Manager/Leadership experience 

Behavioral Competencies 

• Dealing with Ambiguity 
• Conflict Management 
• Motivating Others 
• Building Effective Team