Sr Director, Energy Sustainability & Maintenance Reliability at Americold Realty Trust in Atlanta, GA

Job description

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,