IT Automation Engineer

Department: IT

Location: Hybrid (In State Candidates Only)

Minimum Salary: $113,644

Employment Type: Regular Full Time

Shift: 1st Shift

Scheduled

Work Hours:

8:30am-4:30pm Monday - Friday, Weekends as needed

The Jel Sert Company marks a major milestone this year, 100 years of success, innovation, and industry leadership. The Jel Sert Company has focused on creating high-quality, high-value foods and beverages that help bring people together. Jel Sert is proud of being awarded the Great Place to Work certification, along with being recognized as a Best Workplace to Work in Chicago and Best Workplace to Work in Manufacturing and Production.

We are currently looking for a passionate and dedicated individual to join our team as an IT Automation Engineer. If you are looking for a work environment that encourages personal growth, responsibility, and a shared vision for creating incredible products that help create lasting memories, then Jel Sert wants you!

The IT Automation Engineer will be responsible for enabling and advancing applications that enhance productivity and performance across the enterprise. AI will be heavily used as will traditional and Agentic workflows and applicable API/MCP technologies to deliver measurable value. Working from within the IT Department, this person will apply deep technical fluency to turn high level design concepts into actionable, AI-enabled solutions that enhance efficiency, quality, and growth.

• Develop, implement and maintain solutions to ensure optimum business performance.
• Aid in design and documentation of scalable enterprise solution architectures, including best-in-class tools, data flows, integrations, and security controls.
• Aid in the definition of standards and best practices for AI tool selection, deployment, and lifecycle management.
• Maintain associated company policies as required to address current best-practice standards.
• Aid in identification of use cases that enhance productivity.
• Ensure proper systems security and consistency with Jel Sert policies and procedures.
• Promote the secure, ethical, and responsible use of AI technologies across the organization.
• Train Jel Sert employees on AI topics and tools.

To perform this job successfully, the individual must maintain confidentiality, be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Bachelor's degree in information technology or similar discipline required.
• 5 + years of general business experience designing and implementing enterprise level solutions required.
• Experience with in Food and Beverage or CPG companies preferred.
• Ability to design and implement scalable, secure AI solutions aligned with enterprise architecture and goals.
• Minimum 3 years' experience in the following areas:
  • Hands‑on implementation/use of popular AI end‑user tools - such as ChatGPT, Zapier, Manus, Gamma, Notebook
    
    LM, Harvey, Jasper, etc.
  • Use of AI functionality within enterprise tools - such as Microsoft Copilot, Adobe Suite, Egnyte, UKG, etc.
  • Best practices for maintaining security/privacy of data when using any tool or functionality across the enterprise.
  • Committed experience in the ethical use of AI.
  • Enterprise level integration technologies including those that link AI tools to enterprise systems.
  • Workflow design, implementation and maintenance.
  • Hands‑on experience with data governance, preparation and maintenance in order to support productivity related efforts.
• Working knowledge of AI Agents - when and how to create, schedule and respond to them.
• Strong understanding of Answer Engine Optimization including the evaluation of AEO efforts would be a plus.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Must be able to lead teams and manage investigative efforts.
• Ability to develop training materials and lead team and individual training events.
• Strong systems‑thinking and problem‑solving skills.
• Stay current with AI trends and development.
• Formal project management at the task level.

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