Senior Manager, Automation Engineering

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Buckeye, AZ

Senior Manager, Automation Engineering role at Walmart focused on designing, implementing, and improving automation systems in supply chain and logistics. This includes process flow design, operational excellence, engineering economics, project management, vendor management, continuous improvement, automation system design and integration, mechatronics, data analysis, and advanced analytics including machine learning. The role involves leading the development and deployment of automation technologies from concept to production, with a focus on enhancing operational efficiencies and productivity.

What you'd actually do

  1. interpret information to quantify the anticipate outcome of supply chain decisions, including describing typical tasks with using and managing suppliers, understanding issues for inbound and outbound logistics, and describe basic logistical processes using a variety of business process design tools and techniques
  2. explain operational functions and key functional roles, clarify the role of each department or unit, and describe the interdependence of support functions
  3. describe the concepts behind engineering economics and implications of financial data, understand cost drivers, identify major types of financial data utilized by the organization, and explain how it is assessed and used in engineering
  4. plan and estimate simple projects under guidance and produce standard project status reports, obtain information from stakeholders during the planning process, and assist in detailed project plans – including costs, schedules, and resource requirements
  5. manage site installation, manage project budgets (incl. managing POs), ensure site safety standards are upheld, and manage schedule to ensure all milestones are achieved

Skills

Required

  • Process Flow Design
  • Operational Excellence
  • Engineering Economics
  • Project Management
  • Vendor Management
  • Continuous Improvement (Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen)
  • Automation System Design
  • Automation Integration
  • Mechatronics
  • Data Analysis Tools
  • Machine Learning (R, Python)
  • Communication Skills
  • Collaboration
  • Business Acumen
  • Automation Technology Vision and Strategy
  • Automation Technology Development (alpha/beta)
  • Large-scale Automation Technology Implementation
  • Supplier Relationship Management

Nice to have

  • Supply Chain fulfillment or distribution ASRS systems experience
  • Controls Automation (Robotics, AR/VR)
  • Controls design and development from concept through commissioning

What the JD emphasized

  • automation machineries
  • automation system design
  • machine learning
  • robotics
  • vision systems
  • automation technologies
  • automation design and implementation
  • automation methods

Other signals

  • automation machineries
  • automation system design
  • machine learning
  • robotics
  • vision systems