
Manager, Automation Engineering
Walmart
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Ochelata • Alabama • Florida • United States
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Salary
💰 $90,000 - $180,000 per year
About the role
- Learn the automation landscape, process flow, and vendor footprint across entire grocery supply chain.
- Build working relationships with site teams, operators, and external vendors.
- Develop an understanding of current systems, building constraints, and in-flight initiatives.
- Begin owning projects and key workstreams with increasing independence.
- Help shape annual operating plans and support implementation of projects.
- Identify improvement opportunities across the network.
- Fully own your portion of the business, including planning, communication, execution, and project follow-through.
- Manage multiple projects with varying timelines in a fast-paced environment.
Requirements
- 3–7 years of relevant experience in engineering, automation, systems, supply chain, or project-based operational environments.
- Experience leading projects and driving execution from planning through implementation.
- Strong vendor management skills and ability to coordinate across multiple stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to stay organized, follow through, and keep projects moving in ambiguous environments.
- Excellent execution skills with a self-directed, ownership mindset.
- A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in engineering, math, computer science, chemical engineering, or a related technical field.
- Experience working in engineering-led environments where precision, follow-up, and problem solving are critical.
Benefits
- Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage.
- Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance.
- Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
- Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
- Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates at Walmart and Sam's Club facilities.
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
organizational skillsself-directedownership mindsetability to coordinaterelationship buildingadaptabilityfollow-throughexecution skillsstakeholder managementambiguity management