Energy Improvement Engineer

Heaven Hill; Bardstown (KY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Heaven Hill is seeking an Energy Improvement Engineer to drive energy conservation across Bardstown's bottling facilities. This hands-on role will develop an energy opportunity pipeline, forecast savings, and coordinate with operations, maintenance, and sustainability teams to implement cost-saving projects.

The position focuses on heat recovery, boiler efficiency, insulation, and demand management, with a goal to reduce energy intensity and emissions while delivering financially attractive

Responsibilities

• Execute the enterprise Energy Conservation Strategy across multiple sites with an energy opportunity pipeline.
• Assess energy use across distilling, bottling, processing, and utilities to identify efficiency opportunities.
• Review DOE and site audits; validate applicability and convert recommendations into plans.
• Plan and support energy audits including Bardstown site; coordinate data collection and tracking.
• Develop quick-win projects for boiler, steam, insulation, and energy systems.
• Create charters, scopes, capital requests, savings estimates, payback analyses, and implementation plans.
• Embed energy considerations into maintenance and operating practices.
• Establish energy metrics and reporting; communicate results to leadership.
• Identify utility rebates and government incentives to improve economics.
• Align project plans with 2030 Environmental Sustainability Strategy and carbon goals.
• Collaborate with site leadership to foster energy awareness and ownership.
• Coordinate with utilities, OEMs, contractors; ensure recommendations fit site conditions.
• Advance continuous improvement through data-driven problem solving.
• Maintain knowledge of energy technologies and regulations applicable to distilling and bottling.

Job description

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

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

What the Role Is

The Energy Improvement Engineer is a hands-on technical resource responsible for executing Heaven Hill's Energy Conservation Strategy across manufacturing sites. The role identifies, evaluates, and delivers energy-efficiency, process-optimization, heat-recovery, demand-management, and utility-improvement opportunities that reduce energy cost, carbon emissions, and operating risk.

The Engineer partners with site operations, maintenance, engineering, Environment and Sustainability, Finance, and external providers to turn energy data and audits into a prioritized pipeline of quick wins and capital projects. This position supports the company goal to reduce operational carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030 while delivering measurable, financially attractive savings.

How You Will Spend Your Time?

• Execute the enterprise Energy Conservation Strategy by developing and maintaining a multi-site energy opportunity pipeline, implementation roadmap, and savings forecast.
• Assess energy use across distilling, bottling, processing, utilities, and other manufacturing operations; identify practical opportunities for energy efficiency, emissions reduction, and process improvement.
• Review prior Department of Energy and other site audit recommendations; validate current applicability, close completed items, and convert viable recommendations into implementation plans.
• Plan and support energy audits, including the Bardstown audit and future site assessments; coordinate data collection, site participation, follow-up, and recommendation tracking.
• Develop and lead quick-win projects involving boiler combustion and steam efficiency, insulation and heat loss, compressed air, lighting, motors, refrigeration, HVAC, controls, heat recovery, and demand management.
• Build project charters, technical scopes, capital requests, savings estimates, payback analyses, and implementation plans for energy projects; manage execution through commissioning and handoff.
• Partner with maintenance, reliability, and operations teams to embed energy considerations into preventive maintenance, standards, troubleshooting, equipment selection, and operating practices.
• Establish energy performance measures and recurring reporting for energy spend, consumption, intensity, emissions, project savings, and pipeline progress; communicate results to leadership.
• Identify and pursue utility rebates, government incentives, and other funding opportunities that improve project economics and reduce implementation cost.
• Work with Environment and Sustainability to align project plans and reported results with the 2030 Environmental Sustainability Strategy and carbon-reduction goals.
• Collaborate with site leadership to strengthen energy awareness, operating discipline, and local ownership of savings opportunities without direct supervision of site employees.
• Coordinate technical support from utilities, OEMs, contractors, engineering firms, and consultants; ensure findings and recommendations are practical for site conditions.
• Advance continuous improvement through data-driven problem solving, standard work, training, and cross-site sharing of proven energy practices.
• Maintain current knowledge of manufacturing energy technologies, utility markets, measurement approaches, regulations, and best practices applicable to distilling and bottling operations.