Manager, Automation Engineering

Walmart; Shippensburg (Cumberland County); On-site; USD 90,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Walmart in Shippensburg, PA seeks a Manager of Automation Engineering to lead on-site execution of complex automation and material handling projects from readiness to go-live and handoff. You will coordinate multiple vendors, manage risks, and drive data-driven decisions using AI tools.

This role requires strong project leadership, budget discipline, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure safety, scope, schedule, and cost targets are met.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field; 2 years’ experience in engineering, supply chain, or related area.
• Option 2: 4 years’ experience in engineering, supply chain, or related area.
• Masters: Computer Engineering preferred qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Lead on-site execution of automation and material handling installations.
• Manage scope, schedule and budget with change control.
• Coordinate vendors, contractors and cross-functional partners.
• Oversee risk management and issue resolution.
• Lead testing, commissioning, go-live and handoff.
• Apply AI and digital tools to improve project visibility and decision‑making.

Skills

Project management

Vendor management

Automation engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Risk management

AI tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Master's: Computer Engineering

Tools

AI tools

Scheduling software

Job description

Position Summary...

What you'll do... The Manager, Automation Engineering, will function as the Site Implementation Project Manager who is responsible for leading the on-site execution of complex automation, material handling, and industrial racking projects from site readiness through installation, commissioning, go-live, and operational handoff / final acceptance. This role serves as the primary on-site project leader, ensuring projects are executed safely, to scope, on schedule, and within budget. This role will coordinate multiple vendors and cross-functional partners, proactively manage risks and open issues, and drive timely resolution of constraints that could impact project commitments. The role will also leverage AI and digital tools to improve project visibility, identify emerging risks, streamline project management activities, and enable faster, data-driven decision-making.

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 project risk register, identifying technical, schedule, cost, safety, resource, and operational risks. Establish mitigation plans, owners, and due dates and elevate 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 with Engineering, 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 for cost, schedule, technical, and operational impacts. Ensure changes are appropriately documented, reviewed, and approved before execution.
• AI & Digital Tools: Leverage approved AI 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, including scope, 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 high‑performing 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 customer‑member 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 customer‑member 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 cross‑functionally 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 Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers and the world around us e.g. 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 non‑retaliation, 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, self‑aware, honest and transparent.

Serve our Customers and Members: Delivers expected business results while putting the customer‑member first and consistently applying an omni‑merchant mindset and acts with an Every Day Low‑Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers, members.

Serve our Customers and Members: Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data analytics, customer‑member insights and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping the team’s 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 risk‑taking 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. At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance‑based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. 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. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices. Live Better U is a Walmart‑paid education benefit program for full‑time and part‑time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short‑form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

For Information About Benefits And Eligibility, See One.Walmart.

The annual salary range for this position is $90,000.00 - $180,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :

• Stock

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1: Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field and 2 years’ experience in engineering, supply chain, or related area.

Option 2: 4 years’ experience in engineering, supply chain, or related area.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Masters: Computer Engineering

Primary Location...

1410 UNITED DR, SHIPPENSBURG, PA 17257-9552, United States of America

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