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Head of AI & Automation
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17 June 2026 (30+ days ago)
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16 September 2026
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Job Summary
Head of AI & Automation
Location: On-site Audubon PA or Tampa FL (3 days/week in office)
Pay Range: $180000$200000 base plus performance bonus
The Role
Delaware Valley Companies is hiring its first Head of AI & Automation to modernize how a fast-growing paving and excavation company runs. You will own the systems integrations and automations that take manual effort out of the business and let it scale.
This is not a passive AI role and it is not a traditional IT position. It is a hands-on builder role for someone who has personally implemented AI automation and system integrations to solve real operational problems. You will start as the builder. As the function proves out you will have the opportunity to grow it and lead a small team.
Location: On-site Audubon PA or Tampa FL (3 days/week in office)
Pay Range: $180000$200000 base plus performance bonus
The Role
Delaware Valley Companies is hiring its first Head of AI & Automation to modernize how a fast-growing paving and excavation company runs. You will own the systems integrations and automations that take manual effort out of the business and let it scale.
This is not a passive AI role and it is not a traditional IT position. It is a hands-on builder role for someone who has personally implemented AI automation and system integrations to solve real operational problems. You will start as the builder. As the function proves out you will have the opportunity to grow it and lead a small team.
What Youll Own First
Your first 6 to 12 months focus on estimating project management and operational workflows the areas where automation pays off fastest. Specifically:
Your first 6 to 12 months focus on estimating project management and operational workflows the areas where automation pays off fastest. Specifically:
- Map existing estimating and project management workflows with the people who run them then automate the manual steps that slow them down.
- Build integrations between NetSuite Microsoft 365 (SharePoint OneDrive) and the field tools the business relies on so data flows without rekeying.
- Design dashboards and workflow tools that give operational leaders real visibility.
- Evaluate AI tools against actual business problems and put the ones that earn their keep into production.
Where the Role Grows
Once the foundation is in place this role expands across finance accounting AR/AP sales and enterprise business systems and into building and leading the team that supports continued domestic and international growth.
Once the foundation is in place this role expands across finance accounting AR/AP sales and enterprise business systems and into building and leading the team that supports continued domestic and international growth.
What Were Looking For
- Hands-on experience building AI and workflow automation solutions in a real business not just evaluating them.
- Strong background in programming software development or systems engineering.
- Direct experience with APIs integrations and data automation.
- Experience with NetSuite (or a comparable ERP) and the Microsoft 365 stack including Power Automate SharePoint and the Graph API.
- Ability to sit with operational leaders understand a messy process and turn it into a scalable technical solution.
- Strong problem-solving communication and project management skills and the comfort to work across operations finance estimating project management and executive leadership.
Why On-Site
The three in-office days are how this role wins early. You get direct daily access to the estimators project managers and operational leaders whose work you are automating. That access is the difference between tools that get used and tools that get ignored. You will be based at our Audubon PA or Tampa FL office.
The three in-office days are how this role wins early. You get direct daily access to the estimators project managers and operational leaders whose work you are automating. That access is the difference between tools that get used and tools that get ignored. You will be based at our Audubon PA or Tampa FL office.
About Delaware Valley Companies
Delaware Valley Companies manages paving and excavation projects across all 50 states and is positioned for continued domestic and international growth. We are building the systems processes and technology infrastructure that will support that growth and we are committed to becoming a leader in applying AI and automation in the construction industry.
If you like building smarter systems shipping real solutions and using AI to create measurable operational improvement we want to talk.
Delaware Valley Companies manages paving and excavation projects across all 50 states and is positioned for continued domestic and international growth. We are building the systems processes and technology infrastructure that will support that growth and we are committed to becoming a leader in applying AI and automation in the construction industry.
If you like building smarter systems shipping real solutions and using AI to create measurable operational improvement we want to talk.
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Director
About Company
Delaware Valley Paving is a full-service paving and concrete contractor, based in Phoenixville, PA with services available nationwide.
