Sr Director, Energy Sustainability & Maintenance Reliability

Americold

Atlanta, GA

Shift: Full time

What You’ll Do: Primary Responsibility Lead Americold’s global Energy, Sustainability, and Maintenance Reliability strategies to improve asset performance, reduce operating cost and risk, and deliver measurable progress against enterprise financial and environmental objectives. This role integrates energy and utilities management, sustainability programs, enterprise asset management, reliability centered maintenance, autonomous maintenance, and field capability building into a single operating model. The position serves as the senior technical and functional leader for energy excellence and maintenance reliability across the enterprise. Essential Functions: Strategy, Value Creation Governance • Develop / execute Energy, Sustainability, and Maintenance Reliability strategies aligned with company objectives, operating margin improvement, regulatory readiness, and competitive positioning. • Own enterprise governance, management routines, standard work, and performance reviews for Energy Excellence and Maintenance Reliability within the Americold Operating System. • Deliver measurable cost reduction, including the established goal of a 2% energy cost reduction in 2027 versus the 2026 baseline, while improving asset availability and maintenance cost performance. • Provide updates to senior leadership on progress, value realization, risks, and regulatory changes Energy Management Sustainability • Lead global energy conservation, utility budgeting, tariff and rate analysis, contract negotiation, and management of energy related agreements. • Develop energy cost analyses for new facilities, expansions, new business, and material operating changes to support investment and commercial decisions. • Lead renewable energy programs, green building programs, water stewardship, waste reduction, and greenhouse gas reduction initiatives. • Develop tools and reporting to improve energy intensity and track Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse gas emissions and related sustainability performance. • Prepare the organization for applicable sustainability regulations and external reporting expectations, and support improvement in recognized environmental, sustainability, and governance ratings. Maintenance Reliability Enterprise Asset Management • Lead the enterprise Maintenance Reliability program, including Reliability Centered Maintenance, Total Productive Maintenance, preventive and predictive maintenance, condition-based monitoring, and maintenance diagnostics. • Own the enterprise asset management operating model across applicable platforms, configuration, data integrity, reporting, analytics, end-user training, and continuous improvement. • Standardize asset hierarchies, criticality ranking, bills of material, spare parts strategy, maintenance workflows, planning and scheduling, maintenance plans, and maintenance performance measures. • Use Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, maintenance plan optimization, comparative analysis, and reliability data to identify bad actors, reduce recurring failures, improve asset availability and performance, and lower maintenance cost as a percentage of replacement asset value. • Lead Early Equipment Management to ensure commissioning, qualification, validation, maintenance plans, spare parts, training, and capability are in place before equipment or technology goes live. Operating Excellence, Capability Field Execution • Develop and deploy practical tools, playbooks, training, and standard routines that strengthen energy management and reliability capability across the facility network. • Build site level network of energy and reliability expertise and ensure consistent adoption of enterprise processes and standards. • Publish clear enterprise communications and performance reporting that create accountability, visibility, and sustained field engagement. Team Cross-Functional Leadership • Lead, mentor, and develop Energy, Sustainability, and Reliability organization, with clear accountability for priorities, execution, and professional growth. • Influence across functions and levels without direct authority, translating technical opportunities into clear business cases, decisions, and action plans. • Serve as the senior subject matter expert for energy management, sustainability, maintenance reliability, enterprise asset management, and associated operating practices. What Experience and Education You Need • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Environmental Science, Business, Computer Science, Information Science, Mathematics, Economics, or a related field required. • Minimum 10 years of progressive leadership experience across multi-site energy management, maintenance reliability, asset management, engineering, or sustainability programs. • Subject matter expertise in enterprise asset management systems, including implementation, stewardship, data management, reporting, and user training. • Strong working knowledge of reliability centered maintenance, preventive and predictive maintenance, maintenan