Jobs at Bridgestone Americas

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Designs, develops, installs, upgrades, and supports equipment and process systems for commercial dealer locations. Maintains machine designs, issues engineering change orders, standardizes mechanical drawings, and improves equipment reliability, cost, and uptime. Supports assembly plant troubleshooting, collaborates with electrical, process, and project engineering teams, manages small projects, maintains technical documentation, and provides onsite technical support. Requires domestic travel and occasional extended hours.

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.

The Senior Mechanical Engineer will design and implement mechanical systems, oversee projects, ensure safety compliance, and improve reliability within the production plant.

Partners strategically with assigned business units to improve organizational effectiveness, support business change, advocate HR programs, and develop talent. Leads complex HR projects, improves and automates processes, redesigns SOPs, analyzes data, monitors KPIs, mentors HR professionals, and manages stakeholder relationships. The role supports an on-site, non-union manufacturing plant in Abilene, Texas, with recruiting, onboarding, and broad HR responsibilities.

Manage and prioritize production activities to meet specifications, schedules, cost and quality targets. Supervise and train production staff, coordinate with engineering, supply, and sales, plan maintenance/downtime, and resolve operational issues within guidelines.

Support scale-up of polymer products across distillation, reaction, flash, and drying operations. Lead continuous improvement, process control optimization, trials, troubleshooting, data-driven analysis, capital project scoping, start-up/commissioning, and collaborate with R&D, operations, maintenance, and vendors to implement manufacturing solutions.