- Salary
- $90k – $180k
- Location
- (USA) Together Building AR Bentonville Home Office, United States of America
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Engineering
- Seniority
- Manager
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Education
- Master
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- Workday
Description
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What you'll do...
Position: Manager, Automation Engineering
Job Location: 811 Excellence Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716
Duties: Research, review, and provide feedback to engineers on proposed solutions for process flows, automations, and fulfillment warehouse designs. Provide engineering expertise and support to future state warehouse or system designs by assisting with the selection, use, and application of technology and automated processes within Walmart's eCommerce fulfillment network. Actively evaluate emerging technologies and industry 4.0 trends to identify best in class technologies for scalable robotics and automation implementations for the organization. Develop automation related technology roadmaps to implement emerging technologies in Walmart’s fulfilment network. Plan and lead project teams to implement fulfillment designs and/or engineering and construction projects. Inspect facilities, technology, and equipment to ensure they meet Walmart's material handling, processing, and storage standards. Help report on metrics to track progress of implementations to leadership. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, both inside and outside of the organization, to develop, test, implement, and monitor new technology and/or facility improvements. Manage vendor requests for automation and robotics projects. Review and track vendor contracts for the project by partnering with internal teams (for example, vendor management) to select and renew vendor contracts. Provide vendor forecasts and track vendor performance. Communicate technical issues, resolutions, and outstanding concerns to management, operations, and maintenance teams. Review time, expenses, person-hours, energy, and other resources and provide analyses to management. Lead the identification, incubation, and acceleration efforts for robotics and related emerging technologies for the implementation of automation projects for Walmart’s various distribution centers, fulfillment centers, and marketplace fulfillment centers. Review data analysis on fulfillment processes and requirements (for example, site or facility performance and efficiency metrics, capacity, and demand planning) and generate additional insights. Perform or help direct team to perform more complex process optimization analysis and share findings with other managers and team. Recommend facility and technology metrics based on insights. Provide advice to team and recommend innovative approaches to solve complex issues. This position does not supervise employees.
Minimum education and experience required: Master's degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering (any) or related field; OR Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering (any) or related field and 2 years of experience in engineering, supply chain, or related area.
Skills Required: Must have experience with: Data analysis and extraction using SQL and tools like EDW, Google Analytics, and Tableau for KPI tracking; Reporting tools like Power BI, Tableau, and SQL for business performance metrics; Leveraging analytics for decision-making support through use of analytics to inform product improvements; Writing functional specifications and create process maps to illustrate current and future workflows; Improving automation tools in high-volume retail environments; Understanding of software-based automation systems and supporting infrastructure; Inventory tracking methods and tools for retail demand forecasting and stock planning; Agile processes such as sprint planning, backlog grooming, and sprint demos; Security and compliance practices in product workflows, such as InfoSec guidelines. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.
Rate of pay: $90,000.00 - 180,000.00 /year
Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
