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Walmart Canada · 3 weeks ago

Senior Manager, Automation Engineering

Bentonville, AR

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

Walmart Canada is seeking a Senior Manager, Automation Engineering to lead design, development, and launch support for Automated Breakpack capabilities. The role focuses on driving the next generation Automated Breakpack design to completion and enabling the design to scale across the Ambient network.

DeliveryRetailShopping

Responsibilities

Process Flow Design: Interpret information to quantify the anticipated outcome of supply chain decisions

Operational Excellence: Explain operational functions and key functional roles, clarify the role of each department or unit, and describe the interdependence of support functions

Engineering Economics: Describe the concepts behind engineering economics and implications of financial data, understand cost drivers, identify major types of financial data utilized by the organization, and explain how it is assessed and used in engineering

Project Management: Plan and estimate simple projects under guidance and produce standard project status reports, obtain information from stakeholders during the planning process, and assist in detailed project plans

Vendor Management: Manage site installation, manage project budgets (incl. managing POs), ensure site safety standards are upheld, and manage schedule to ensure all milestones are achieved

Continuous Improvement: Define the critical workflow for executing key processes, identify process problems that limit performance, focus on the most significant problems, and surface significant problems to maximize efficiency gains; includes implementation of Continuous Improvement methodologies, such as Lean, Six Sigma, or Kaizen

Automation System Design: Promote the usage of automation machineries, participate in implementation and training, conduct cost-benefit analyses of machineries, and monitor actual versus planned

Automation Integration: Combine knowledge of automation/system design and learning from previous implementations into a road map, guiding in resolving integration issues and proposing alternatives to a system or technology integration initiative

Mechatronics: Create views of objects in 2 and 3 dimensions, create perspective drawings and orthogonal views, use design and visualization for basic drafting, and participate in projects that modify existing electrical systems, equipment, and components

Data and Digital Literacy: Leverage data analysis tools to explore moderately complex data, develop and test hypotheses, and use data to influence strategic work

Advanced Analytics: Apply data analysis and data modeling techniques to establish, modify, and maintain data structures and associated components and apply specific computing languages and tools in machine learning (R, Python, etc.)

Qualification

Automation System DesignContinuous ImprovementData AnalysisVendor ManagementMechatronicsProject ManagementCommunication SkillsProblem-Solving SkillsCollaboration Skills