Artificial Intelligence (AI) Specialist

Commonwealth Rolled Products is a leading manufacturer of Aluminum rolled products for the Automotive, Commercial, and Industrial markets. The Company operates its production facility in Lewisport, KY with the support of an Automotive Innovation Center for R&D and Field Service in Madison Heights (DET), MI.

Our Company is seeking to add an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Specialist to its Information Technology (IT) team. The purpose of this role is to lead the practical adoption of artificial intelligence to drive measurable business value, improve productivity, reduce costs, enhance quality, enable growth, and transform how work is performed across the organization. The role will partner with business and technology leaders to identify high-value opportunities, translate business challenges into practical AI solutions, and move successful concepts from experimentation into sustainable enterprise capabilities. The position will also support responsible AI governance and serve as backup to the Cyber Security Lead, providing continuity for key cybersecurity activities when needed.

Responsibilities Include:

• Adhere to all Health and Safety programs, including taking personal ownership over daily actions that drive to a zero (0) incident culture.
• Live and champion the Commonwealth Rolled Products Core Values; Safety Matters, One Team, Customer Focus, and Own Excellence.
• Drive measurable business value. Identify, evaluate, and implement AI solutions that improve productivity, reduce costs, enhance quality, grow revenue, strengthen decision-making, and improve customer experiences.
• Accountable for identifying, developing, and scaling AI initiatives that collectively deliver annual measurable business benefit targets.
• Lead enterprise adoption. Partner across operations, manufacturing, engineering, sales, customer service, procurement, finance, treasury, HR, IT, and executive leadership to embed AI into business processes and workflows.
• Develop the enterprise AI roadmap. Build and maintain a prioritized roadmap aligned with organizational strategy, business priorities, technology capabilities, cost, and available resources.
• Build a high-value initiative pipeline. Work with functional leaders to identify needs, assess value and feasibility, prioritize use cases, and advance the strongest opportunities.
• Advance operational excellence. Apply AI to manufacturing productivity, supply chain optimization, quality management, forecasting, knowledge management, analytics, and process automation.
• Improve employee productivity. Deploy practical AI tools that reduce administrative work, streamline routine tasks, accelerate access to information, and allow employees to focus on higher-value activities.
• Enable organizational transformation. Help redesign processes and ways of working around AI capabilities rather than simply adding AI to existing processes.
• Build an AI-enabled culture. Provide education, training, coaching, and best practices that improve AI literacy and promote effective, responsible use.
• Monitor emerging AI technologies, industry applications, and competitive developments to identify opportunities that strengthen the company's market position and competitive advantage.
• Measure adoption and value. Establish KPIs for adoption, business impact, productivity gains, cost savings, utilization, and return on investment; communicate progress to leadership.
• Ensure responsible adoption. Maintain appropriate governance, cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, data protection, and cost-management controls while enabling innovation.
• Support cybersecurity. Serve as backup to the Cyber Security Lead and assist with security operations, risk management, incident response, and security initiatives as needed.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, plus 2+ years’ experience with technology adoption, process improvement, organizational change, digital transformation, AI governance, cybersecurity, privacy, or compliance. Other relevant experience, demonstrated capability, business knowledge, certifications, continuing education, and a proven record of delivering results may be considered.
• Demonstrated success applying AI, automation, analytics, or emerging technologies to solve business problems and produce measurable outcomes.
• Strong understanding of generative AI, AI agents, automation, data-driven solutions, and the evolving enterprise AI landscape.
• Ability to translate business needs into practical solutions and collaborate across technical, operational, and executive audiences.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to evaluate initiatives based on value, cost, risk, feasibility, and strategic impact.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, problem-solving, and relationship-building skills; ability to learn emerging technologies quickly and independently.

EEO Statement

Commonwealth Rolled Products is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy or pregnancy-related conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age (forty and over), national origin, disability (as defined by applicable law), veteran’s status, genetic information, marital status, height, weight, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable law. Our HR team will reach out to the applicants who met the qualifications and are most closely aligned with requirements of the positions.