Manager, Automation Engineering

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Key Responsibilities

• Project Execution: Lead day-to-day site execution of automation, material handling, conveyor, controls, and industrial racking installations from site readiness through commissioning and operational handoff.
• Scope, Schedule & Budget: Maintain accountability for approved project scope, master schedule, milestones, financial commitments, and change control. Identify variances early and establish recovery plans when commitments are at risk.
• Vendor Management: Manage equipment suppliers, system integrators, rack installers, contractors, and other project partners. Establish clear deliverables, monitor performance, and hold vendors accountable to contractual, schedule, quality, and performance commitments.
• Risk Management: Own and actively manage the projectrisk register, identifying technical, schedule, cost, safety, resource, and operational risks. Establish mitigation plans, owners, and due dates and escalate material risks early.
• Open-Issue Resolution: Maintain disciplined tracking of open issues, dependencies, decisions, and actions. Drive issues to closure, remove barriers, and coordinate cross-functional support to maintain project momentum.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely withEngineering, Construction, Operations, Reliability/Maintenance, Technology, Safety, Procurement, Finance, and external partners to coordinate execution, resolve issues, and ensure alignment to project commitments.
• Installation & Site Readiness: Coordinate site access, installation sequencing, equipment delivery and staging, utilities, construction interfaces, and other dependencies required for successful automation and industrial rack installation.
• Commissioning & Go-Live: Lead coordination of testing, commissioning, punch-list closure, performance validation, training, documentation, and operational readiness activities through successful go-live.
• Change Management: Evaluate proposed scope and field changes forcost, schedule, technical, and operational impacts. Ensure changes are appropriately documented, reviewed, and approved before execution.
• AI & Digital Tools: Leverage approvedAI and digital project-management tools to improve schedule and cost analysis, risk identification, issue tracking, meeting and action summarization, document review, reporting, and identification of emerging project trends. Apply AI-generated insights to proactively identify constraints and accelerate informed decision-making while maintaining accountability for project outcomes.
• Project Governance: Provide clear, fact-based reporting on overall project health, includingscope, schedule, budget, risks, open issues, vendor performance, and operational readiness. Use AI and digital tools to improve reporting efficiency, identify trends, and enable earlier escalation and resolution.
• Operational Handoff: Ensure project deliverables, documentation, training, spare parts, punch-list items, open issues, and system ownership are effectively transitioned to Operations and Reliability teams.
  Respect the Individual: Demonstrates and encourages respect for all builds a highperforming team seeks and embraces differences in people cultures ideas and experiences creates a workplace where all associates feel seen supported and connected through culture of belonging so associates thrive and perform drives a positive associate and customermember experience for all identifies attracts and retains the best team members
  
  Respect the Individual: Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent through feedback coaching mentoring and developmental opportunities promotes an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customermember and company and regularly recognizes others contributions and accomplishments
  
  Respect the Individual: Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners works collaboratively and crossfunctionally to achieve objectives and communicates and listens attentively with energy and positivity to motivate influence and inspire commitment and action
  
  Act with Integrity: Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity ethics and compliance models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture supports Walmarts goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates customers and the world around us eg creating a sense of belonging eliminating waste participating in local giving
  
  Act with Integrity: Follows the law our code of conduct and company policies and sets expectations for others to do the same promotes an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns and reinforces our culture of nonretaliation listens to concerns raised by associates takes action and encourages others to do the same holds self and others accountable for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values
  
  Act with Integrity: Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble selfaware honest and transparent
  
  Serve our Customers and Members Delivers expected business results while putting the customermember first and consistently applying an omnimerchant mindset and acts with an Every Day LowCost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customersmembers
  
  Serve our Customers and Members Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data analytics customermember insights and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping the teams strategy
  
  Strive for Excellence Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset seeks feedback asks thoughtful questions fosters an environment that supports learning innovation and learning from mistakes and intelligent risktaking and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks
  
  Strive for Excellence Seeks and implements continuous improvements and encourages the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working

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Minimum Qualifications...

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