IT AI & Analytics Manager - Engineering

Techtronic Industries - TTI•Anderson, SC

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About The Position

The IT AI & Analytics Manager - Engineering identifies, prioritizes, and executes AI, analytics, and technology-enabled initiatives across North American Outdoor and CPT Engineering to create measurable business value. This role partners directly with Engineering, IT leadership, as well as functional stakeholders across all subfunctions within Engineering departments. The position combines engineering domain knowledge, technical curiosity, analytical problem solving, portfolio discipline, and strong communication skills to improve engineering productivity, product-development processes, testing, technical knowledge access, decision making, and operational performance. Solutions may leverage GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, AI agents, engineering software, automation and analytics tools, machine learning, or other appropriate technologies based on business needs, technical feasibility, and expected value.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, data science, information systems, analytics, or a related technical discipline is required.
Experience in applying engineering, analytical, technical, or process improvement methods to complex business or operational challenges is required.
Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts and business value to Engineering, IT, and leadership audiences.
Ability to work independently and as an integral part of a cross-functional team.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting product engineering, advanced engineering, laboratories, product testing, document control, software development, research and development, or related technical functions is preferred.
Experience applying AI, analytics, automation, software-development tools, or other technologies to improve engineering or technical processes.
Familiarity with GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, generative AI, AI agents, machine learning, predictive analytics, prompt engineering, knowledge retrieval, optimization, or automation concepts is preferred.
Familiarity with Power BI, including reports, dashboards, data models, measures, or related business intelligence concepts.
Experience with Snowflake or comparable data platforms, semantic models, APIs, system integration, workflow automation, or modern software development practices is preferred.
Experience taking technical initiatives from problem identification through requirements, prototype, testing, implementation, documentation, and adoption.
Ability to partner directly with Engineering stakeholders, gather requirements, clarify needs, and convert business problems into practical technical solutions.

Responsibilities

Partners directly with Engineering leaders and functional stakeholders to identify, evaluate, prioritize, and execute AI and analytics opportunities that align to functional goals and measurable business outcomes.
Manages the Engineering AI and analytics portfolio, including intake, prioritization, roadmaps, delivery milestones, dependencies, execution status, and expected value.
Designs, prototypes, tests, deploys, or coordinates solutions using the tools most appropriate for the business problem, including but not limited to GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, generative AI, machine learning, function specific engineering software, analytics platforms, automation, and custom development.
Applies AI, machine learning, and analytics to engineering use cases such as predictive testing, anomaly detection, technical knowledge retrieval, design and test data analysis, process automation, and decision support.
Translates business problems into clear technical requirements by gathering stakeholder input, documenting use cases, defining success criteria, and clarifying expected business value.
Uses Python, SQL via various data platforms, analytics tools, or related technologies to access, transform, integrate, validate, and analyze data required for Engineering solutions.
Partners with Engineering software owners and subject-matter experts to understand existing platforms and determine whether opportunities should be addressed through current functionality, configuration, integration, automation, AI augmentation, or new development.
Identifies opportunities to reuse and scale solutions across Outdoor and CPT Engineering, reducing duplicated effort and improving the return on technology investments.
Collaborates with IT, data engineering, business optimization, Cybersecurity, governance, and functional stakeholders to ensure AI solutions are scalable, supportable, secure, and aligned to enterprise standards.
Tracks solution adoption, performance, costs, and realized business value.
Creates business cases that document expected benefits, implementation and ongoing costs, assumptions, affected users, success measures, risks, and ongoing support requirements.
Communicates project status, risks, requirements, demos, adoption expectations, and business impact clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, including leadership when needed.
Develops the documentation and enablement resources needed to support solution adoption.
Works both independently and as part of cross-functional teams to move AI initiatives from idea generation through execution while balancing multiple priorities.
Continuously evaluates developments in AI, analytics, software-development tools, and Engineering technologies and recommends practical applications based on organizational need and measurable value.
Performs other related duties as assigned.