Associate Director, AI for Manufacturing and Operations

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🌲 North Carolina – Remote

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

💵 $157.2k - $298.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

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RTX

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2020

🏭 Manufacturing

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Manufacturing • Consulting • Logistics

RTX is a globally recognized aerospace and defense company dedicated to transformative technologies and era-defining innovation. It operates through various businesses, including Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon, with a focus on sustainable, connected flight and smarter defense systems. RTX is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion across the company and aims to solve the world’s most complex problems with cutting-edge technology and talent. Additionally, RTX is involved in significant projects like upgrading the F135 Engine Core and developing missile-defense systems. The company emphasizes corporate responsibility and sustainable practices.

📋 Description

• Partner across RTX AI with manufacturing engineering, operations, supply chain, Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning (SIOP), quality, and digital transformation teams to identify high-value AI use cases. • Translate complex AI/ML concepts into clear, actionable factory solutions for non-technical stakeholders. • Evaluate current processes and determine where AI can meaningfully augment automation, analytics, maintenance, and production systems. • Create and maintain the Collins Operations AI Roadmap. • Architect AI-driven tools and workflows in areas such as predictive maintenance, defect detection, digital twins, scheduling optimization, and intelligent automation. • Guide teams through data readiness requirements, model selection, feasibility trade-offs, and integration constraints. • Work with product teams and external vendors to assess technologies, shape roadmaps, and ensure alignment with factory needs and enterprise standards. • Develop and execute proof-of-concepts, pilot plans, and deployment strategies for new AI capabilities; measure results and iterate designs. • Provide technical leadership, training, and coaching to engineering teams to raise overall AI maturity. • Ensure solutions meet security, safety, compliance, and ethical use standards.

🎯 Requirements

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 12 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 10 years of experience • 5+ years experience applying AI and machine learning in industrial or highly operational environments • Ability to communicate highly technical AI concepts in simple, business-oriented language • 5+ years experience leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing stakeholders at multiple levels

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees • Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution • Tuition reimbursement program • Student Loan Repayment Program • Life insurance and disability coverage • Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection • Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits • Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning • Adoption Assistance • Autism Benefit • Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions • Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program • Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits • Bright Horizons, child and elder care services • Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program • And more!