Jobs at Bridgestone Americas

Leads HR strategy and support for more than 1,200 retail teammates across 130 New England locations. Advises store and area leaders on employee relations, performance management, workforce planning, organizational development, employment law, engagement, retention, and change management. Partners with HR centers of excellence and recruitment teams, analyzes HR trends, manages headcount, and supports staffing and enterprise initiatives. This remote, field-based role requires regional travel and residence within the supported geography.

Leads mechanical engineering for tire manufacturing equipment, including machine design, installations, upgrades, continuous improvement, risk assessments, fabrication, testing, commissioning, and operational support. Manages projects ranging from $50,000 to $5 million, coordinates vendors and contractors, develops engineering drawings and bills of materials, and ensures safety, quality, schedule, and budget requirements are met. The role is primarily plant-floor based in a high-temperature, high-noise manufacturing environment.

Leads mechanical engineering projects at a tire manufacturing plant, including safety system design, CAD drawings, pneumatic and hydraulic systems, fabrication, installation, commissioning, and reliability improvements. Oversees contractors, develops project scopes, budgets, procurement documents, bills of materials, and schedules. Coordinates with production, maintenance, vendors, and cross-functional engineering teams to deliver projects safely, within budget, and according to quality and compliance standards.

Serves as a strategic HR partner for a manufacturing facility and product development operations team. Responsibilities include workforce planning, talent management, employee relations investigations, organizational development, HR compliance, union relationship management, talent acquisition, employee engagement, and continuous improvement of HR processes and reporting. The role is onsite in Akron, Ohio, and supports a safety-focused, high-performance manufacturing culture.

Leads the development, improvement, and maintenance of tire manufacturing processes. Evaluates production and laboratory data, establishes specifications, conducts experiments and trials, improves quality and productivity, reduces costs, and supports new product development. Investigates nonconforming materials, develops corrective actions, ensures compliance with standards, and collaborates with plant, technical center, and corporate teams. Uses statistical methods to solve complex process problems and mentors junior engineers.

Leads multiple capital, reliability, automation, capacity, quality, and continuous-improvement projects at a manufacturing plant. Responsibilities include project definition, engineering design, budgeting, procurement, contractor coordination, installation, commissioning, and closeout. The role partners with operations, maintenance, quality, EHS, suppliers, and leadership to improve safety, throughput, reliability, OEE, ergonomics, and cost performance while minimizing production disruption.

Designs, installs, optimizes, and maintains mechanical manufacturing equipment and systems. Leads capital projects, equipment modifications, reliability improvements, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, continuous improvement, and safety initiatives. Coordinates vendors, contractors, budgets, schedules, procurement, installation, startup, testing, and validation. Provides technical guidance to production and maintenance teams while improving safety, quality, throughput, waste, scrap, downtime, and cost performance.

Own the software platform product backlog and feature lifecycle. Gather customer requirements, translate needs into user stories, collaborate with design and engineering, drive Agile sprint and release processes, present new features, monitor product performance, and improve user experience through feedback and analytics.

Manages complex tire engineering programs and continuous improvement projects supporting Bridgestone Motorsports, primarily IndyCar and Indy NXT. Develops project plans, schedules, and resource requirements; monitors performance and risks; resolves issues; supports technical standards and resource selection; and communicates progress to leadership. Leads cross-functional collaboration, influences decisions, and travels extensively to race and testing events, including up to 15 weekends annually.

Owns the enterprise Active Directory service lifecycle, roadmap, architecture, security, compliance, resilience, and hybrid Entra ID integration. Governs delegated operations, managed service providers, RACI boundaries, incident and change management, privileged access, backup and recovery, and collaboration with security and infrastructure teams. The role provides strategic platform accountability rather than day-to-day account administration or server operations.

Leads multiple engineering specializations and develops long-term functional strategy. Oversees continuous improvement and automation initiatives through multiple management teams, makes operational and administrative decisions, drives business results, manages stakeholder relationships, and coaches department leaders and direct reports.

Provides technical leadership for pilot-scale polymer production process development, infrastructure upgrades, and capital projects. Manages projects from concept through commissioning, including budgeting, design, procurement, contractors, startup, and closeout. Designs and troubleshoots process equipment, manufacturing systems, process safety systems, and control systems. Supports PSM and RMP compliance, strategic capital planning, continuous improvement, and engineering mentorship.

Senior Process Engineer supporting polymer product and process development from pilot scale through manufacturing readiness. Responsibilities include process equipment design, installation, commissioning, startup, process documentation, polymer technology scale-up, production trials, troubleshooting, statistical analysis, and continuous improvement. The role requires close collaboration with engineering, operations, maintenance, vendors, and global development teams, with a strong onsite plant presence in Akron, Ohio.

Supports polymer product scale-up and chemical plant process improvements across reaction, distillation, flash, and drying operations. Responsibilities include process optimization, statistical analysis, debottlenecking, process control improvements, production trials, capital project design, equipment commissioning, operating procedure development, and collaboration with operations, maintenance, vendors, and product development teams. The role requires strong plant presence and expertise in polymerization, process engineering, control systems, and chemical manufacturing.

Manages computer-integrated manufacturing IT and network infrastructure teams. Responsibilities include developing network capacity plans, designing LAN/WAN architecture, analyzing hardware and software systems, supporting front-end processors and transmission systems, ensuring SLA compliance, managing budgets and continuous improvement, and coaching direct reports. The role also influences strategy, maintains institutional knowledge, and collaborates with internal and external stakeholders.

Lead cross-functional implementation and adoption of Bridgestone Mining Solutions. Manage initiatives, escalations, and strategic success plans; drive stakeholder engagement, root-cause analysis, continuous improvement, and provide executive updates to ensure solutions meet scope, schedule, budget, and business goals.