Manager, Automation Engineering

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

What you'll do... 

At Walmart, we help people save money so they can live better. This mission serves as the foundation for every decision we make and drives us to create the future of retail. We can’t do that without the best talent – talent that is innovative, curious, and driven to create exceptional experiences for our customers. 

As a member of the Transportation Engineering team, you’ll use an innovative and analytical mindset to revolutionize Walmart’s Transportation fleet in support of our supply chain digitization and automation strategy and our corporate commitment to achieve zero emissions by 2040. You will research relevant technology and identify strategic industry partners to pilot cutting-edge sustainable transportation Zero-Emissions Vehicles (ZEV) that are powered by electricity, hydrogen, or natural gas. You will conduct data analytics and work cross-functionally with key partners. 

You will report to the Sr Manager, Transportation Engineering. This is an onsite role based in Bentonville, Arkansas; a full relocation package is available, but we are not considering remote candidates at this time.  

What you’ll do…  

• Deploy zero emissions technologies and infrastructure, build business cases, track performance, and provide recommendations to improve the technology

• Integrate zero emission technology into our fleet operations working cross-functionally with key partners in operations, construction, and energy transformation.
• Perform data analytics and build dashboards to track performance and quantify emissions
• Build presentations and write white papers to communicate results to key stakeholders and leaders

• Implement efficiencies and best practices in automation and operations to help increase safety and efficiency while decreasing emissions 

• Grow, influence, and manage high-visibility key relationships with both internal and external stakeholders 

You’ll sweep us off our feet if…   

• You’re an engineer with an excitement for sustainability and integrating new zero emissions technologies into Transportation applications  

• You have hands-on engineering experience and are adept at sourcing and manipulating data to support your recommendations to leadership  
• You have 2+ years of engineering experience
• You have data analytics background (SQL, Python, Tableau, Power BI)

• You demonstrate experience adapting regenerative transportation technology to new established environments, and have the ability to communicate technical needs of the situation in order to fully integrate the product, automation and operations to ensure a sustainable solution  

• You have a background in Zero Emissions vehicles, Transportation infrastructure, Autonomous vehicles, or Autonomous enabling technologies 

Walmart is building the Supply Chain of the future that will achieve success through innovative, driven, and dynamic engineering leaders who will leverage their expertise to design and implement transformative technology through the following engineering competencies: 

• Data and Digital Literacy: You will leverage data analysis tools to explore highly complex data, develop and test hypotheses, influence strategic work, and build and provide insights to construct stories and make decisions 

• Process Flow Design: You will interpret information to quantify the anticipated outcome of supply chain decisions, describe the typical tasks associated with using and managing suppliers, and understand issues and considerations for inbound and outbound logistics. 

• Automation Integratio