Lead Engineer, West Green Manufacturing

Bridgestone Americas • Nashville, TN

29d

About The Position

The Green Manufacturing – Lead Engineer is responsible for advancing green manufacturing performance across North American manufacturing facilities by leading energy and utility optimization, embedding sustainability into manufacturing processes and standards, and developing engineering-based solutions that improve environmental and operational efficiency. This role specializes in identifying, developing, evaluating, and implementing green manufacturing projects that reduce environmental impact, improve operational efficiency, and optimize conversion cost. Example project categories include, but are not limited to, energy efficiency, HVAC systems, control strategies, powerhouse optimization, renewable energy, electrification, water reduction, waste reduction, process optimization, and emerging decarbonization technologies. This position partners directly with manufacturing facilities to assess, benchmark, and improve performance through plant audits, opportunity assessments, and the development of actionable decarbonization and resource-efficiency roadmaps. The role works alongside plant teams to validate project benefits, track implementation progress, and support project execution, including securing and leveraging strategic enterprise funding where appropriate. As part of the West Green Manufacturing team, the role collaborates closely with regional engineering counterparts supporting Latin America and EMEA to share best practices, drive technical standardization, benchmark performance, communicate lessons learned, and scale successful technologies and solutions across the broader West manufacturing network. Together with these counterparts, this role works to identify, develop, and deploy the technologies and projects to enable the company’s pathway towards carbon-neutral manufacturing.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Industrial, Environmental, or related technical discipline).
• Minimum 5 years of engineering experience in manufacturing, energy, utilities, environmental engineering, sustainability, or a related technical field.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate data into actionable recommendations.
• Ability to work effectively across functions and manufacturing locations.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in tire, rubber, chemical, or heavy manufacturing environments.
• Certified Energy Manager (CEM), Professional Engineer (PE), Six Sigma certification, or related professional credentials.
• Experience with decarbonization technologies, energy systems, utility infrastructure, renewable energy, electrification, or resource efficiency programs.
• Experience with technology evaluations, pilot programs, and industrial scaling of new technologies.
• Knowledge of energy, carbon, water, and waste performance measurement and verification methodologies.
• Project and portfolio management.
• Communication and knowledge-sharing across multi-site organizations.

Responsibilities

• Manage and benchmark environmental performance metrics including energy cost, energy efficiency, Scope 1 and Scope 2 CO2, water, waste, and related resource consumption to identify improvement opportunities
• Develop, maintain, and integrate utility performance data systems to support accurate reporting, analytics, and decision-making
• Conduct and lead plant assessments, audits, and evaluations to identify conservation, optimization, and emissions reduction opportunities.
• Manage projects to drive sustainability and operational improvements, including scope development, business case creation, engineering design, implementation planning, resource requirements, budgets, and project schedules.
• Validate project performance, energy savings, emissions reductions, and resource conservation results using established engineering methodologies.
• Contribute to the planning and development of engineering and sustainability strategy to align resources on objectives
• Manage technology evaluations, pilot programs, feasibility studies, and industrialization efforts for emerging green manufacturing technologies.
• Participate in design reviews to ensure sustainability, energy metering, digitalization, and resource efficiency principles are part of our design DNA
• Work with procurement on budgeting forecasts and power contracts to ensure alignment of procurement strategies and accurate budgeting
• Maintain engineering standards, tools, methodologies, and best practices for Green Manufacturing programs.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives and foster a culture of environmental stewardship and operational excellence.

Benefits

• A supportive and engaging onboarding experience to ensure a smooth transition into our team.
• The opportunity to develop and grow, through training and regular mentorship.
• Corporate Social Responsibility activities.
• A truly global, dynamic and challenging work environment.
• Agility and work/life effectiveness and your long-term well-being.
• An effective and inclusive team.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior