Senior Bottling Reliability Engineer – Loss Elimination

Kentucky Distillers Association; Bardstown (KY); On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Kentucky Distillers Association in Bardstown, KY is seeking a Sr. Reliability Engineer for the Heaven Hill bottling site to lead the bottling-site reliability program and reduce losses and lifecycle costs.

You will partner with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Quality, and Continuous Improvement to improve asset performance, lubrication, inspection, and predictive maintenance while expanding reliability practices to other facilities over time.

Responsibilities

• Lead the initial bottling-site reliability program for assigned assets, focusing on chronic losses, repeat failures, and lifecycle improvement opportunities.
• Use downtime, OEE, work orders, maintenance, and condition data to prioritize reliability work and quantify performance gaps.
• Lead cross-functional loss-elimination projects from problem definition through implementation, sustainment, and verified benefits.
• Participate in daily and weekly performance routines to connect reliability priorities with line losses and production plans.
• Maintain a visible reliability action plan showing priorities, owners, timing, risks, decisions, expected benefits, and verification status.
• Lead component-level breakdown analysis for critical assets; identify failure modes, contributing conditions, and actions that extend component life.
• Facilitate post-breakdown reviews for significant equipment failures and ensure corrective actions are tracked to verified closure.
• Partner with Maintenance and Operations to improve preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance, lubrication, inspection, and basic-care strategies.
• Develop and use asset criticality, FMEA, failure-mode libraries, bad-actor lists, and critical-spare strategies.
• Partner with planners and supervisors to improve failure coding, work-order history, and maintenance feedback.
• Develop condition-monitoring routes and response standards for critical failure modes.
• Develop and maintain a practical obsolescence strategy for critical assets, controls, and components, including risk identification, lifecycle plans, critical-spare decisions, and escalation of replacement needs.
• Promote safe work practices and complete reliability actions in accordance with safety, quality, food-safety, GMP, and site work-control requirements.
• Spend substantial time in bottling, warehouse, and storage areas conducting observations, audits, troubleshooting, and project work; as responsibilities expand, provide similar on-site support at other facilities.
• Support scheduled production and maintenance windows, including off-shift or weekend work when required for critical troubleshooting, trials, or project execution.

Job description

Kentucky Distillers Association in Bardstown, KY is seeking a Sr. Reliability Engineer for the Heaven Hill bottling site to lead the bottling-site reliability program and reduce losses and lifecycle costs.

You will partner with Maintenance, Operations, Engineering, Quality, and Continuous Improvement to improve asset performance, lubrication, inspection, and predictive maintenance while expanding reliability practices to other facilities over time.