AI Program Lead - Manufacturing & Operations Innovation

Top Echelon LLC; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Top Echelon LLC is seeking an AI Program Manager to drive AI initiatives across North America, partnering with Operations, Sales, Marketing, IT, HR, and Finance to automate repetitive tasks, reduce waste, and improve quality at plant sites. You will build governance, roadmaps, and data/IT infrastructure to scale measurable outcomes while ensuring policy compliance.

Success requires collaboration, adaptability, and a track record of delivering hard-dollar benefits and labor-hour avoidance within

Qualifications

• 3+ years leading data/AI/automation programs in manufacturing with measurable labor-hour savings.
• Mastery of program management: business cases, roadmaps, stage gates, financials.
• Strong stakeholder communication across Ops, Sales, Marketing, IT, HR, Finance.

Responsibilities

• Conduct stakeholder interviews to capture objectives and translate them into AI project requirements.
• Prioritize initiatives by value, impact, labor hour avoidance, and risk.
• Define short, iterative deliverables and align with governance.
• Develop data and IT infrastructure to support AI roadmap.
• Ensure AI projects are adopted and integrated into processes.

Job description

Top Echelon LLC is seeking an AI Program Manager to drive AI initiatives across North America, partnering with Operations, Sales, Marketing, IT, HR, and Finance to automate repetitive tasks, reduce waste, and improve quality at plant sites. You will build governance, roadmaps, and data/IT infrastructure to scale measurable outcomes while ensuring policy compliance.

Success requires collaboration, adaptability, and a track record of delivering hard-dollar benefits and labor-hour avoidance within