DMS is looking to optimize manufacturing operations by identifying, developing, and deploying AI solutions to improve productivity, quality, cost, and sustainability.
Requirements
- Experience implementing AI solutions in operational environments.
- Experience deploying AI models on edge devices and optimizing for real-time inference.
- Familiarity with manufacturing data sources (PLC, SCADA, MES, ERP).
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Minitab, Smartsheets or MS Project; knowledge of advanced engineering tools is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Develop & prototype AI solutions to address real-world operational challenges and inefficiencies.
- Define data acquisition & management requirements for industrial AI initiatives and collaborate with data engineering teams to ensure data availability, quality, and governance.
- Utilize a disciplined and data-driven experimentation approach to idea vetting, ensuring precision and scalability in every solution.
- Build detailed use cases with ROI projections and key performance indicators.
- Continuously monitor the AI and industrial technology landscape.
- Evaluate startups, vendors, and academic research to identify promising solutions.
- Ensure robust integration with manufacturing systems (MES, SCADA, PLCs).
Other
- Partner with plant operations, engineering, and quality teams to identify AI opportunities across manufacturing operations.
- Maintain a prioritized roadmap of AI initiatives.
- Manage vendor and internal team efforts to scale successful solutions across facilities.
- Monitor deployed AI solutions, ensuring ongoing performance and relevance.
- Prepare detailed reports and presentations on innovation activities, progress, and challenges for management review.
- Ensure compliance with industry standards, environmental policies, and occupational health and safety regulations.
- A bachelor's or master's degree in Artificial Intelligence
- Additional experience in lean principles, AI technology scouting/development, supply chain and quality controls systems.
- Effective communication skills, with the ability to translate operational and industry needs into actionable AI solutions.
- Proven ability to identify and implement disruptive solutions.
- Strong entrepreneurial, critical thinking and curious mindset, with the ability to design experiments, iterate, and learn from failure.
- Integrity – adhering to high ethical principles and professional standards.
- Trustworthiness – Being honest, dependable, and earning the confidence of others.
- Excellence – consistently being the best you can be.
- Responsible – being reliable and trustworthy.
- Accountability – being obligated and willing to accept responsibility for one’s actions.
- Dignity – behaving in accord with DMS basic principles.
- Respect – treating others as you would have them treat you.
- Ability to lead and motivate teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Able to work in a cross-functional team.
