Director of Artificial Intelligence

Amrize•Portland, OR

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The Director of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a senior enterprise leader responsible for applying AI and advanced analytics to materially improve business performance across manufacturing operations and enterprise support functions. This role is focused on practical, value-driven AI applications. This role leverages AI to enhance quality, reliability, maintenance, forecasting, production efficiency, financial planning, workforce planning inputs, supply chain performance, and select customer or market insights. The role operates with strong governance and cross-functional alignment, ensuring AI solutions support leadership decision-making rather than replace it, while protecting safety, compliance, data integrity, and employee trust.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree
Five or more years in a senior leadership role driving advanced analytics initiatives aligned with business strategy
Successful candidates must adhere to all safety protocols and proper use of Amrize-approved Personal Protection Equipment (PPE), including but not limited to respirators. Employees who are required to wear respirators must be clean-shaven where the respirator seal meets the face in order to pass the qualitative and quantitative fit tests.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Analytics, Engineering, Business Analytics, or an MBA with a strong analytics focus is preferred.

Responsibilities

Define and execute the business unit AI strategy to align priorities with clear success metrics, ROI expectations, and delivery timeliness.
Identify and deliver high-value AI use cases with measurable impact in manufacturing, quality, finance, supply chain, and workforce planning inputs.
Deploy AI solutions supporting asset reliability, process optimization, defect prevention, and production planning.
Align AI recommendations with operational constraints, quality standards, and safety requirements while ensuring A outputs are actionable and integrated into daily plant and leadership workflows.
Partners with support functions on decision support, such as Finance to improve forecasting accuracy and cost visibility; HR and EHS to support workforce planning insights and leading safety indicators; Supply Chain and Marketing to enhance demand planning, inventory optimization, and customer insights.
Establish business unit standards for AI governance, model validation, monitoring, and auditability.
Demonstrate a commitment to communicating, improving, and adhering to health, safety, and environmental policies in all work environments and areas. Promote a culture of safety and exhibit these behaviors.