Artificial Intelligence (AI) Consultant

American Bureau of Shipping (ABS); Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) is seeking an AI Consultant to join our Europe AI Practice, based in Warrington or London with some remote flexibility. This full-time role coordinates AI project lifecycles, aligning client needs with technical teams across strategy, solutions and execution.

You will engage across cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP), data analytics tools, and enterprise delivery practices, ensuring timely, high-quality outcomes for maritime/industrial clients.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data/Analytics, or a related field
• 3+ years of experience in technical or engineering-focused environments supporting structured project delivery
• Proven track record coordinating activities across multiple teams and projects simultaneously
• Experience collaborating with IT, OT, data/AI, or engineering teams in enterprise or industrial settings
• Exposure to cloud-based and data/analytics platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) with maritime/industrial sector experience as a plus

Responsibilities

• Coordinate day-to-day communication with clients, capturing requirements and providing updates
• Support the project manager in planning and tracking delivery across multiple AI projects
• Translate client needs into clear tasks and monitor execution against timelines
• Troubleshoot delivery issues and maintain quality and standards

Skills

Stakeholder management

Project coordination

Communication

Organizational skills

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data/Analytics, or a related field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Git-based repositories

Power BI

Tableau

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Job Description

ABS is seeking an exceptional Artificial Intelligence (AI) Consultant to join us full-time in our AI Practice Team, Europe. In this role, you will coordinate and support the full lifecycle of AI projects, keeping delivery aligned between clients and our technical teams across strategy, solutions, and execution. You will stay close to day-to-day project activity, ensuring requirements are clearly understood, work is well-structured, and the right experts are engaged at the right time. Operating from Warrington or London, England with some remote flexibility, you will help ensure our AI initiatives land reliably, on time, and with consistent quality for clients across our service spectrum.

ABS is seeking an exceptional Artificial Intelligence (AI) Consultant to join us full-time in our AI Practice Team, Europe. In this role, you will coordinate and support the full lifecycle of AI projects, keeping delivery aligned between clients and our technical teams across strategy, solutions, and execution. You will stay close to day-to-day project activity, ensuring requirements are clearly understood, work is well-structured, and the right experts are engaged at the right time. Operating from Warrington or London, England with some remote flexibility, you will help ensure our AI initiatives land reliably, on time, and with consistent quality for clients across our service spectrum.

What You Will Do

• Coordinate day-to-day communication with clients, capturing requirements, clarifying questions, and providing timely updates on progress, risks, and key decisions.
• Support the project manager in planning and tracking delivery across multiple AI projects, maintaining plans, action logs, RAID logs, and status reporting.
• Work closely with technical leads and team members to translate client needs into clear, actionable tasks and monitor execution against agreed timelines and scope.
• Troubleshoot delivery issues as they arise, helping unblock dependencies, elevate risks, and ensure corrective actions are owned and tracked.
• Help drive quality and consistency by supporting reviews, testing and validation activities, documentation, and adherence to delivery standards and methods.
• Contribute to internal knowledge sharing and continuous improvement within the AI practice, capturing lessons learned and helping develop playbooks and reusable assets.
• Support cross-service coordination across AI strategy, AI assistants, custom models, process optimization, policy/procedure optimization, and data standardization/tagging initiatives.

What You Will Need

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data/Analytics, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 3+ years of experience working in technical or engineering-focused environments supporting structured project delivery.
• Proven track record coordinating activities across multiple teams and projects simultaneously, including stakeholder management, action tracking, and status reporting.
• Experience collaborating closely with IT, OT, data/AI, or engineering teams in enterprise or industrial settings.
• Exposure to cloud-based and data/analytics platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP, data platforms, BI/analytics tools), with maritime/industrial sector experience considered a plus.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Proven ability to coordinate activities across multiple technical projects, teams, and stakeholder groups, ensuring alignment on priorities, timelines, and deliverables.
• Strong organizational and project support skills, including maintaining project plans, action and RAID logs, documentation repositories, and structured status reports.
• Hands-on experience with common AI/data and IT/OT technology environments, including cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP), data platforms, and analytics/BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau).
• Ability to understand and communicate technical concepts, architectures, and workflows, and translate them into clear tasks and follow-up actions for delivery teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with confidence interacting with technical specialists, business stakeholders, and client counterparts.
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills with a structured, detail-oriented approach to tracking issues, dependencies, and risks.
• Familiarity with collaboration and delivery tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Git-based repositories to support transparent and traceable project execution.
• Experience working with distributed, international teams and comfort operating in a fast-moving environment with evolving priorities (nice to have but strongly preferred).
• Awareness of industrial or maritime operational contexts, safety, or regulatory constraints, and how they impact AI and digital delivery (nice to have).
• Must hold a valid right to work status in the UK.

Reporting Relationships

This role reports to the AI Project Manager and does not include direct reports.

About Us

We set out more than 160 years ago to promote the security of life and property at sea and preserve the natural environment. Today, we remain true to our mission and continue to support organizations facing a rapidly evolving seascape of challenging regulations and new technologies. Through it all, we are anchored by a vision and mission that help our clients find clarity in uncertain times.

ABS is a global leader in marine and offshore classification and other innovative safety, quality, and environmental services. We’re at the forefront of supporting the global energy transition at sea, the application of remote and autonomous marine systems, cutting-edge technical solutions, and many more exciting advancements. Our commitment to safety, reliability, and efficiency is ever-present, guiding our clients to safer and more efficient operations.

Equal Opportunity

The ABS Group of Companies is committed to the equal employment opportunity of its employees and prohibits discrimination against any employee or qualified applicant based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship status or veteran status, or other non-work-related characteristics that may be protected under the law of the Federal Government or specific state employment laws.

Notice

ABS and Affiliated Companies (ABS) will not pay a fee to any third-party agency without a valid ABS Master Service Agreement (MSA) authorized and signed by Human Resources. Any resume, CV, application, or other forms of candidate submission provided to any employee of ABS without a valid MSA on file will be considered property of ABS, and no fee will be paid.

Other

This job description is not intended, and should not be construed, to be an all-inclusive list of responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions associated with the job of the incumbent. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the principal job elements essential for making a fair decision regarding the pay structure of the job. #ogjs