Manufacturing AI & Analytics Architect

At BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT), we are People Strong, Innovation Driven. A U.S.-based company, BWXT is a Fortune 1000 and Defense News Top 100 manufacturing and engineering innovator that provides safe and effective nuclear solutions for global security, clean energy, environmental restoration, nuclear medicine and space exploration. With more than 7,800 employees, BWXT has 14 major operating sites in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. We are the sole manufacturer of naval nuclear reactors for U.S. submarines and aircraft carriers. Our company supplies precision manufactured components, services and fuel for the commercial nuclear power industry across four continents. Our joint ventures provide environmental restoration and operations management at a dozen U.S. Department of Energy and NASA facilities. BWXT’s technology is driving advances in medical radioisotope production in North America and microreactors for various defense and space applications. For more information, visit www.bwxt.com . Follow us on LinkedIn , X , Facebook and Instagram .       Welcome to BWXT    We believe in empowering our employees and cultivating a dynamic workplace that fosters growth and collaboration. Whether you’re an experienced professional or just starting your career, you'll find opportunities to challenge yourself, learn from seasoned experts, and contribute to nuclear innovation. We require a diverse range of skills to support our work in the markets that drive our business and welcome candidates from all backgrounds and life stages who are passionate about making a difference.   Position Overview:   The Manufacturing AI & Analytics Architect will guide the design and delivery of AI, advanced analytics, data architecture, and decision-support solutions for BWXT production manufacturing environments. This role will partner with manufacturing, engineering, quality, maintenance, operations, supply chain, cybersecurity, and IT teams to translate operational challenges into secure, scalable, supportable solutions that improve quality, throughput, downtime, process visibility, and data-driven decision making.   Location:   Onsite in Melbourne, FL or Lynchburg, VA. Fully remote option available.   Your Day to Day as a Manufacturing AI & Analytics Architect:

Partner with manufacturing and business-unit leaders to identify, prioritize, and define high-value AI and analytics use cases across production, quality, maintenance, supply chain, safety, and operational performance. Translate manufacturing workflows and operational pain points into technical requirements, data requirements, solution architectures, implementation plans, and measurable success criteria. Design practical solutions such as dashboards, alerts, predictive models, anomaly detection, optimization tools, AI assistants, data products, APIs, workflow automation, and lightweight applications. Analyze data from ERP, MES, SCADA, historians, PLCs, sensors, quality systems, maintenance systems, production logs, engineering systems, spreadsheets, and other operational sources. Develop reusable data models, features, semantic definitions, KPIs, and architecture patterns that can scale across plants, lines, stations, processes, and business units. Partner with data engineering, software engineering, application, platform, and cybersecurity teams to move prototypes into production-ready solutions. Support data governance, metadata, data quality, security, regulatory compliance, lifecycle management, and stewardship practices for manufacturing data and analytics. Apply MLOps and production support practices such as version control, testing, model deployment, monitoring, drift detection, retraining, logging, and documentation. Communicate technical concepts, assumptions, limitations, risks, and recommendations clearly to plant teams, engineers, leaders, and non-technical stakeholders. Challenge assumptions constructively,