Senior Digital Solutions & Innovation Leader

Heidelberg Materials North America; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 136,000 - 181,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(k) with company match

Paid vacation and holidays

Disability & Life Insurance

Job summary

Heidelberg Materials North America seeks a Senior Manager for HROC Digital Solutions & Innovation to lead digitalization across the North American Remote Optimization Center. You will drive AI-enabled analytics, digital twins, automation, and data-driven improvements in collaboration with operations, engineering, and Group Digital teams.

Ideal candidates have a strong ML background, proficiency in Python and modern ML frameworks, and experience with cloud-native AI environments.

Qualifications

• Experience leading analytics, ML, or AI initiatives from ideation to production deployment.
• Strong understanding of data science methodologies, model lifecycles, feature engineering, evaluation, and operationalization.
• Experience in manufacturing, remote operations, or heavy industry preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the identification, prioritization, deployment, and scaling of digital solutions that improve HROC services and plant performance.
• Drive adoption of AI, advanced analytics, automation, digital twins, and decision-support tools to address operational challenges and create measurable business value.
• Provide leadership and strategic direction for HROC data science resources, overseeing the analytics project portfolio and driving data-driven operational improvements.
• Partner with HROC operations, engineering, CCC SMEs, Group Digital teams, and external technology providers to deliver performance improvements and technology adoption.
• Champion innovation by managing SparkHub, Discovery Sessions, and Innovation Jams, and maintaining an innovation pipeline aligned with business priorities.
• Evaluate, develop, and implement innovative solutions that support continuous improvement and digital transformation.

Skills

Analytics leadership

Machine learning

Python

AI frameworks

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or quantitative field

Tools

Azure ML

Azure OpenAI

TensorFlow

PyTorch

LangChain

Semantic Kernel

Microsoft Fabric

Job description

Heidelberg Materials North America seeks a Senior Manager for HROC Digital Solutions & Innovation to lead digitalization across the North American Remote Optimization Center. You will drive AI-enabled analytics, digital twins, automation, and data-driven improvements in collaboration with operations, engineering, and Group Digital teams.

Ideal candidates have a strong ML background, proficiency in Python and modern ML frameworks, and experience with cloud-native AI environments.