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Premium Ad IT/Computer - Other IT/Computer Gauteng FULL TIME Job Summary A company in the manufacturing industry is looking for a Lead AI Engineer to join their team in Johannesburg, GP. Job Overview: Our company has moved past experimenting with AI. An internally built, agentic system already runs our planning cycle end-to-end—from customer sales order through to purchase orders and production planning—handling hundreds of orders daily in live production. The Lead AI Engineer is the first dedicated hire into this capability and will become its technical owner. This role has two parallel mandates. The first is to instill proper engineering discipline around the systems already in production to ensure they are documented, tested, monitored, recoverable, and not dependent on any single individual. The second is to architect and build the next wave of automation across the Group. This is a hands-on role. Conventional IT, infrastructure, and end-user support are covered elsewhere and do not form part of this position. You will work directly with the Supply Chain and IT Executive and cross-functionally with planning, procurement, production, and finance teams. Success is measured by systems that work in the real business, not by demonstrations. Responsibilities: Technical Ownership & Core Engineering * Assume technical ownership of the Group's existing production AI systems (including the agentic planning and MRP system) and bring them under source control with documented architecture, managed environments, and a defined deployment path. * Eliminate single points of failure across all production automation to ensure no business-critical system relies on the knowledge of a single individual. * Architect new systems with clear boundaries, data contracts, defined failure modes, and designs that will still hold when the system is three times larger. Quality Assurance & Evaluation…
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