(USA) Maintenance Manager (Grocery) Automation

Walmart • Pilesgrove Township, NJ

14h • $104,000 - $156,000

About The Position

Join a high-impact maintenance team where you’ll play a critical role in driving performance, ensuring operational excellence, and supporting a safe, efficient, and people-focused environment. This role is central to sustaining facility success through strong leadership, strategic execution, and continuous improvement. If you enjoy leading teams, solving challenges, and making a daily difference, this opportunity is for you. As part of Walmart’s next-generation automated distribution network, this role plays a key leadership position in supporting and optimizing advanced automation systems. You will guide a skilled technical team while driving reliability across robotics, PLCs, and highly automated material handling systems, helping shape how a facility is built, optimized, and scaled from the ground up.

Requirements

• Associate’s degree or equivalent technical certification (e.g., Maintenance, Controls, Electrical) and 1 year of experience in an operations, distribution, logistics, or retail environment with responsibilities including: supervising and developing managers/supervisors, managing workload across multiple departments, participating in hiring and promotions.
• OR at least 3 years of experience in a maintenance or related technical environment with the same leadership and staffing responsibilities listed above.
• Associates will be required to attend and successfully complete all job-required trainings and assessments (for example, Academy trainings, Open Door trainings, etc.).

Nice To Haves

• Facility Maintenance
• Financial Modeling and Analysis
• General Maintenance
• Managing challenging workforce issues
• Material Handling Equipment (MHE)
• Modeling/Forecasting
• Preparing and executing budgets
• Profit and Loss (P&L) Accountability
• Project Management
• Supervising Associates
• Walmart Logistics Manager
• Walmart Logistics Systems Associates: Electrical Science
• Bachelors: Business
• Bachelors: Finance
• Bachelors: Logistics
• Bachelors: Management
• Bachelors: Operations Management
• Bring strong leadership experience in operations, logistics, supply chain, or maintenance environments.
• Have proven success managing teams and driving performance outcomes.
• Excel at problem-solving and decision-making, especially in fast-paced, high-volume settings.
• Demonstrate strong financial acumen, including budgeting and expense tracking.
• Are highly organized, safety-driven, and passionate about building a culture of compliance and continuous improvement.
• Have experience working with automated material handling systems, robotics, PLCs, or control systems.
• Bring expertise in Lean principles, reliability engineering, and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Have experience leading maintenance strategies in highly automated or greenfield/startup environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead communication with associates, customers, suppliers, and cross-functional partners through clear verbal and written updates.
• Drive and execute the operational business plan to meet production, quality, and safety goals while implementing process improvements.
• Forecast, plan, and monitor staffing, workload, and performance to meet business demands.
• Manage financial responsibilities by tracking expenses, monitoring asset utilization, and analyzing business reports.
• Ensure compliance with logistics, company standards, and safety requirements through strong documentation and adherence to procedures.
• Oversee daily maintenance operations, ensuring performance in maintaining warehouse equipment and compliance with OSHA, DOT, NFPA, Hazardous Waste, Storm Water, and other regulations.
• Supervise and develop associates and leaders, providing coaching, performance feedback, and growth opportunities while supporting hiring, promotion, and evaluation processes.
• Lead reliability efforts across advanced automation systems including robotics, conveyor/sortation systems, and PLC-controlled equipment.
• Develop and execute preventative maintenance (PM) and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) strategies to improve system uptime and performance.
• Drive complex troubleshooting and root cause analysis for automation and control system failures, leveraging data and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Partner closely with operations, engineering, and vendors to support integration and scaling of new automation technologies.
• Utilize CMMS and data-driven tools to monitor system performance, identify trends, and proactively address maintenance needs.

Benefits

• 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.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees