Plant Manager

Walmart; Lansing (MI); On-site; USD 76,000 - 114,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning stipends

Flexible Lansing, MI hours

Job summary

Walmart in Lansing, MI seeks a Plant Manager to translate ambitions into actionable milestones by Friday. A track record of reliable, internship-structured delivery and cross-functional leadership is required.

You will guide the Lansing expansion, align Industrial Automation with APQP, and ensure staffing realism for launches. Prospective candidates should demonstrate experience in Change Management, welding-related skills, and a proactive, initiative-driven mindset.

Qualifications

• Experience leading cross-functional teams in a manufacturing/industrial setting.
• Ability to manage change and APQP processes.
• Proven track record of reliable delivery in fast-paced environments.
• Hands-on with SolidWorks reporting for Industrial Automation actions.

Responsibilities

• Keep Lansing expansion on schedule when plans change weekly.
• Rebuild a target that the MI team stopped believing in.
• Time the Lansing launch against realistic staffing by Walmart.
• Explain renewal terms to an internship client to keep both sides whole.
• Coordinate between Industrial Automation and APQP to make calls.
• Broker tradeoffs when sales, product, and finance seek different outcomes in Lansing.
• Own cadence turning SolidWorks reporting into Industrial Automation action.

Skills

Leadership

APQP

Change Management

Cross-functional collaboration

Delivery & reliability

Initiative

Internship experience

Welding

Tools

SolidWorks

Job description

A Plant Manager here translates Walmart's ambitions in MI into milestones a team can actually hit by Friday. Think of it less as a job and more as a $76,000 - $114,000 bet Walmart is placing on your 8 years and your judgment.

Key Responsibilities

• Keep Lansing expansion on schedule when half the plan changes weekly
• Rebuild a target that the MI team stopped believing in
• Time the Lansing launch against what Walmart can realistically staff
• Walk an internship client through renewal terms that keep both sides whole
• Sit between Industrial Automation and APQP teams as the person who makes the call
• Broker tradeoffs when sales, product, and finance want three different things in Lansing
• Own the cadence that turns SolidWorks reporting into Industrial Automation action

What You'll Bring

• A track record of relentlessly-kind delivery in an internship structure
• Experience supporting cross-functional teams in a manager capacity
• Working knowledge of Change Management alongside transferable Welding chops
• The reliability that lets a manager stop checking in
• Solid Initiative grounding, plus APQP you can pick up on the fly
• At least 8 years building expertise within the business space

Walmart writes the software that keeps business operations humming, all of it engineered in Lansing, MI by a make-it-better bunch. We default to documenting decisions so MI and remote teammates stay equally in the loop.

At Walmart the paycheck opens at $76,000 - $114,000 and the perks, from learning stipends to flexible Lansing, MI hours, only widen from there.

Candidates are being contacted promptly as part of our active search.