Lead Engineer, West Green Manufacturing

Bridgestone Tower

Full time

Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM), headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bridgestone Europe, Middle East and Africa (BSEMEA), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, operate collectively as a “Bridgestone West” strategic region. This region services the strategic business needs of teams across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa. BSAM and BSEMEA are subsidiaries of Bridgestone Corporation, globally headquartered in Japan. Bridgestone and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand products and solutions to address the needs of a broad range of customers and industries.

Engineering & Science

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.

• 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,…