Engineering Director, Asia Pacific

The Engineering Director will lead engineering and reliability activities across Goodyear’s APAC operations across seven factories in China, India, Thailand, and Indonesia. This role is accountable for developing and implementing regional strategies and best practices to maximize equipment performance, process reliability, and cost efficiency across diverse manufacturing environments.

S/he will own the reliability and equipment standards function, ensuring Goodyear maintains a competitive edge through advanced, reliable, and sustainable manufacturing technologies. By applying global best practices under the Reliability Excellence (RE) pillar of Plant Optimization, the Director will optimize machine performance, strengthen preventative maintenance, and drive reliability maturity across the region.

S/he will provide leadership throughout the full lifecycle of equipment — from design, development, and supplier integration to manufacturing, commissioning, and operational readiness. Under the Early Equipment Management (EEM) pillar, the Director will ensure timely delivery of cost-effective, value-added technical solutions that meet business requirements and customer expectations.

In addition, the role will establish and sustain a culture of compliance, ethics, and continuous improvement, while ensuring consistent adoption of automation and predictive maintenance technologies to future-proof operations.

The position will interface extensively with Manufacturing, Quality, Procurement, Safety, Finance, Global Engineering, and Tire Technology teams, collaborating to support new process technologies, evolve existing systems, and align regional execution with global strategies.

As the APAC pillar leader for Reliability Excellence, the Director will also provide support to the Daily Equipment Care (DEC) pillar within the Plant Optimization governance model, while acting as a change leader to elevate the maturity of teams, systems, and processes across the region.

Job Duties / Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

• Direct the APAC Engineering & Reliability team to maximize equipment and process efficiency, improve machine uptime & eliminate losses through strong reliability programs & preventative maintenance.
• Develop and deploy reliability standards in partnership with Global Engineering, ensuring supplier compliance with maintainability and reliability requirements.
• Audit and enforce compliance with global equipment and process standards, ensuring common capability and reliability maturity across plants.
• Oversee utility performance management, reducing energy losses and driving efficiency improvements.
• Lead regional energy and sustainability initiatives, including benchmarking against best-in-class performers and collaborating with the Global Sustainability team.
• Lead regional energy and sustainability initiatives, including benchmarking against best-in-class performers and collaborating with the Global Sustainability team.
• Identify and implement technologies that reduce utility consumption, advance automation, and contribute to decarbonization targets.
• Manage engineering budgets, MRO inventory, and cost optimization initiatives while balancing reliability performance.
• Lead the development of the APAC capital plan, validating investment requirements against capacity, capability, and future business needs.
• Partner with PMO, procurement, and finance to prioritize and oversee execution of capital projects.
• Provide technical expertise and direction in evaluating CapEx projects, ensuring alignment with reliability and compliance standards.
• Oversee select regional and plant-level projects, ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery and long-term sustainability.
• Provide strategic input into plant expansions, retooling & process enhancement projects.
• Work cross-functionally with global and regional engineering to implement upgrades that increase production efficiency and reduce waste.
• Standardize processes and equipment features to improve reliability, repeatability, and cost-effectiveness across the region.
• Lead the regional rollout and adoption of Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) and predictive maintenance tools.
• Deploy plant optimization pillars relating to engineering/ equipment reliability and early equipment management (EEM).
• Act as a change leader to embed a culture of reliability excellence and compliance.
• Enforce strict adherence to Goodyear’s compliance and ethical standards, with particular emphasis on transparent reporting and data integrity.
  
  

Key Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related technical field; Master’s preferred.
• 15+ years in engineering, maintenance, and/ or reliability leadership roles with deep technical expertise heavy equipment management, and maintenance systems.
• Strong track record in capital planning, compliance oversight, engineering cost management and project management. Tire and rubber industry experience preferred.
• Experience in talent development, team building, and organizational capability growth.
• Knowledge of utility management, energy optimization, automation, digitalization & cost efficiency levers.
  
  

Key Skills

• Problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze multiple projects and tasks.
• Demonstrated proficiency in influence and leadership skills.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement and organization skills at all levels.
• High interpersonal skills/team player, while demonstrating unquestionable integrity.
• Change management & cultural leadership skills, with ability to elevate team maturity.
• High ethical standards; proven ability to enforce compliance and accurate reporting.
• Balance of strategic leadership with hands-on technical problem solving.
  
  

Goodyear is one of the world's largest tire companies. It employs about 68,000 people and manufactures its products in 51 facilities in 19 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centers in Akron, Ohio, and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry.

Goodyear is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law.