AI Solutions Engineer

TheAI Solutions Engineer is a strategic technology, business transformation, andhands-on engineering leader responsible for identifying, developing, building,implementing, and driving adoption of artificial intelligence and automation solutions across the organization. This role serves as the bridge between business operations and emerging technologies, ensuring AI initiatives generate measurable business value, improve operational efficiency, enhance decision-making, and support organizational growth.

This position partners with executive leadership, division leaders, and operational stakeholders to identify opportunities for automation, optimization, advanced analytics, and AI-enabled decision support. This position combines strong business acumen, technical understanding, project leadership, and change management to successfully implement solutions across sales, distribution,fabrication, service, finance, and administrative functions. The successful candidate will operate as a high-level individual contributor, serving simultaneously as a strategic advisor to leadership and the primary technical builder who writes code, configures data pipelines, and deploys production-ready AI applications.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Develop and execute the organization’s AI strategy aligned with business objectives, operational priorities, and growth initiatives.
• Partner with executive and division leadership to identify opportunities where AI, automation, and advanced analytics can improve efficiency, profitability, customer experience,and decision-making.
• Establish and maintain an enterprise AI project roadmap based on business impact, implementation complexity, organizational readiness, risk, and return on investment.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies, platforms, vendors, and industry trends to identify opportunities for operational and competitive advantage.
• Serve as a trusted advisorto executive leadership regarding AI capabilities, limitations, risks,opportunities, and strategic investments.
• Directly design, code,develop, implement, and manage the full lifecycle of AI-driven business solutions and automation workflows.
• Rapidly architect and build functional internal Proofs of Concept (PoCs) to validate automation viability before scaling solutions across business units.
• Analyze business processes and operational challenges to determine appropriate AI, automation, analytics,technology, or process-improvement solutions.
• Translate business requirements and strategic objectives into practical, high-performing technology solutions with measurable business outcomes.
• Coordinate cross-functional project teams consisting of operational leaders, business analysts, developers,data specialists, IT resources, and external partners.
• Oversee and directly execute the technical integration of AI solutions with existing business systems,including ERP, CRM, inventory management, field service, financial, and operational platforms.
• Identify and implement opportunities to improve sales forecasting, quoting and proposal development,pricing and margin analysis, inventory management, procurement, supply chain,fabrication scheduling, quality assurance, service operations, maintenance programs,and administrative workflows.
• Identify opportunities toreduce manual effort, eliminate process bottlenecks, improve data accessibility, and enhance organizational decision-making.
• Establish measurable objectives and key performance indicators for AI initiatives and communicate operational and financial results to leadership.
• Ensure AI projects aredelivered within established scope, schedule, budget, security, and performance expectations.
• Establish governance standards…