Baker Hughes to close Houston-area facility, lay off 174 workers

Baker Hughes is closing its Houston-area facility at 9100 Emmott Road in northwest Houston and laying off 174 employees, a move that puts manufacturing, engineering, materials, purchasing and other support workers on a staggered path out of the site starting in July and continuing into 2027.

The company filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification notice with the Texas Workforce Commission, and the filing said the event could be treated as either a mass layoff or a plant closing under federal law. The state agency says WARN notices are meant to give the public advance warning when large layoffs or shutdowns are coming.

The Emmott Road campus has long been part of Baker Hughes’ Houston footprint. The site, described as a manufacturing and testing facility, has a main building of about 171,600 square feet. It also previously absorbed operations from another Houston plant closure in 2020, which makes this latest shutdown part of a longer pattern of industrial consolidation in the city.

For workers in northwest Houston, the timing matters immediately. A closure of this size does not just affect payrolls inside the plant; it can also squeeze contractors, suppliers and nearby businesses that relied on the daily flow of employees. In a city where the energy sector still drives a large share of white-collar and industrial jobs, the loss of 174 positions adds pressure to a market that remains competitive for specialized manufacturing and oil-field service skills.

The closure also comes as Baker Hughes keeps reorganizing its Houston presence rather than shrinking it outright. The company opened a new Houston headquarters in the Energy Corridor at 575 N. Dairy Ashford in October 2023, signaling that some functions are moving even as the Emmott Road campus winds down. Baker Hughes is co-headquartered in Houston and London and operates in more than 120 countries, so the Emmott Road decision is part of a broader portfolio shift across a global business.

The Texas Workforce Commission’s WARN page makes the notice public as part of its list of companies reporting major layoffs and closures, turning the Baker Hughes filing into an early marker of another hard turn for Houston’s energy-services workforce.