Sr. Reliability Engineer

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Operations Shared Services G&A Senior Engineer Bardstown, KY, US

This role is based at our Bardstown, KY bottling location.

The Sr. Reliability Engineer will lead the initial reliability program for assigned bottling-site assets, delivering measurable reductions in chronic losses, repeat failures, and lifecycle cost across Heaven Hill. The role partners with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Quality, and Continuous Improvement to improve asset performance, component life, safety, and throughput. As the program matures, the role will apply proven practices and provide reliability support across additional facilities in alignment with business priorities.

This role combines strong technical and mechanical aptitude with disciplined problem solving and the ability to influence action across the organization. The Engineer supports assigned lines, assets, and projects as business needs require, beginning at the bottling site and expanding to other sites over time.

• Lead the initial bottling-site reliability program for assigned assets, focusing on chronic losses, repeat failures, and lifecycle improvement opportunities; establish repeatable practices that can be deployed at additional facilities over time.
• Use downtime, OEE, work-order, maintenance, and condition data to prioritize reliability work and quantify performance gaps.
• Lead cross-functional loss-elimination projects from problem definition through implementation, sustainment, and confirmed benefits.
• Participate in daily and weekly performance routines to connect reliability priorities with line losses and production plans.
• Maintain a visible reliability action plan showing priorities, owners, timing, risks, decisions, expected benefits, and verification status.

• Lead component-level breakdown analysis for critical assets; identify failure modes, contributing conditions, and actions that extend component life.
• Facilitate post-breakdown reviews for significant equipment failures and ensure corrective actions are tracked to verified closure.
• Partner with Maintenance and Operations to improve preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, lubrication, inspection, and basic-care strategies.
• Develop and use asset criticality, FMEA, failure-mode libraries, bad-actor lists, and critical-spare strategies.
• Partner with planners and supervisors to improve failure coding, work-order history, and maintenance feedback.
• Develop condition-monitoring routes and response standards for critical failure modes.
• Develop and maintain a practical obsolescence strategy for critical assets, controls, and components, including risk identification, lifecycle plans, critical-spare decisions, and escalation of replacement needs.

• Advance site problem-solving capability by facilitating and coaching practical methods such as 5-Why, fishbone, A3, DMAIC, and root-cause analysis.
• Work with operators, technicians, and technical trainers to improve centerlines, CILs, troubleshooting standards, escalation paths, and operator basic care.
• Train and coach teams on reliability and problem-solving tools, with field observations and audits to verify adoption and effectiveness.
• Develop, implement, and audit reliability standards—including criticality, failure coding, PM/PdM, condition monitoring, critical spares, and breakdown-review practices—aligned with the enterprise reliability strategy.
• Partner with the Director, Enterprise Maintenance &…