Innovation Engineer
Role Overview
The Innovation Engineer works from the Lenexa, Kansas corporate office and supports innovation across assigned regions.
The role identifies, develops, pilots, and scales solutions to improve safety, quality, productivity, and business performance.
This is a hands-on, field-oriented role connecting field operations, corporate teams, and external partners.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
The Innovation Engineer works from the Lenexa, Kansas corporate office and supports innovation across assigned regions.
The role identifies, develops, pilots, and scales solutions to improve safety, quality, productivity, and business performance.
This is a hands-on, field-oriented role connecting field operations, corporate teams, and external partners.
Field engagement and innovation
- Serve as the innovation lead for assigned branches and regions and build relationships with field and project teams.
- Facilitate branch innovation committees and maintain feedback loops between field operations and corporate innovation.
- Identify jobsite pain points, inefficiencies, and opportunities.
Pilot lifecycle and evaluation
- Lead initiatives from problem definition through proof of concept, proof of value, pilot execution, and scale recommendations.
- Set success metrics and evaluate safety, quality, productivity, and cost; recommend whether to scale, pivot, or stop.
- Document and share pilot outcomes and learnings across the organization.
Technology and collaboration
- Scan emerging AI, robotics, automation, and construction technologies; assess applicability, scalability, and business value.
- Partner with IT, Safety, Operations, Finance, and other teams to implement and integrate technologies into workflows.
- Engage vendors, startups, universities, and industry groups; support partner evaluation and onboarding.
Communications, adoption, and reporting
- Prepare pilot summaries, case studies, internal updates, newsletters, podcasts, and field-facing materials.
- Support rollouts through training, coaching, field engagement, and feedback on adoption and user experience.
- Track initiative impact, support business cases and ROI analysis, and report outcomes and opportunities.
Required qualifications
- 2–5 years of experience in construction, operations, engineering, or a related field.
- Strong understanding of construction processes, workflows, and jobsite realities.
- Practical problem-solving ability, comfort navigating ambiguity, and strong communication and organizational skills.
- Ability to build relationships across field and corporate teams; proactive, ownership-oriented approach.
Preferred qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience leading pilots, field deployments, or technology implementations.
- Familiarity with construction technology, digital tools, AI, or automation.
- Cross-functional experience with IT and operations; exposure to change management, training, or process improvement.
Benefits
- Benefits include competitive pay, incentive bonus, employee stock ownership, 401(k) with match, health and insurance plans, employee assistance, paid time off, and paid holidays.
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