Senior Manager, Automation Engineering - Real Time Visibility
About The Position
The Senior Manager, Automation Engineering leads the Real-Time Yard Visibility & Orchestration portfolio as part of Walmart’s Yard Modernization strategy. This portfolio creates a trusted, real-time tracking of yard assets and operations. That information is used to improve safety, throughput, utilization, labor productivity, and overall operational efficiency across Walmart’s supply chain network. This role partners with operations, technology vendors, product, platform, and applied AI teams to develop real-time yard visibility, digital yard models, and intelligent orchestration capabilities. Through technology deployment, data-driven decision making, and cross-functional leadership, the position delivers scalable solutions that optimize yard movements, resource utilization, and network performance. Walmart’s Transportation Engineering team leads innovation within one of North America’s largest private fleets, focusing on zero-emissions technology, autonomous systems, and yard modernization. The team develops and implements advanced solutions that transform freight, equipment, and asset movement across Walmart’s network. Collaborating closely with operations, technology teams, and external partners, they drive projects from concept to scaled deployment. Utilizing engineering expertise, automation, and data analysis, the team enhances safety, efficiency, and operational excellence, shaping the future of transportation operations through continuous improvement and strategic project management.
Requirements
- Experience leading complex technology deployments in transportation, supply chain, automation, or logistics environments.
- Knowledge of transportation operations, yard management systems, fleet technologies, and asset visibility solutions.
- Experience with geospatial systems, digital mapping, real-time location technologies, digital twins, or related operational modeling platforms.
- Strong analytical skills with experience using data, visualization, and performance metrics to drive operational improvements and strategic decisions.
- Familiarity with optimization, orchestration, dispatching, routing, path planning, or AI-enabled decision support systems.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence operations, product, engineering, and external partners.
- Experience evaluating, piloting, and scaling emerging technologies.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field and 4 years’ experience in Engineering, supply chain, or a related area.
- 6 years’ experience in Engineering, supply chain, or a related area.
- 2 years’ supervisory experience.
Nice To Haves
- Masters: Computer Engineering
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and deployment of transportation yard modernization solutions, including real-time visibility, digital yard mapping, automation, and intelligent orchestration capabilities.
- Partner with operations, technology vendors, product, platform, and applied AI teams to build realistic dynamic digital yard maps and models combining identity, location, status, and workflow context.
- Define and deploy orchestration capabilities that prioritize yard moves, assign drivers to moves, and route coordinated movements across the yard.
- Define operational requirements for path planning, task prioritization, performance measurement, and continuous improvement using real-time data, analytics, and site-level operational insights.
- Manage pilots, deployments, vendor relationships, and business cases to drive measurable outcomes.
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Performance-based bonus awards
- Medical coverage
- Vision coverage
- Dental coverage
- 401(k)
- Stock purchase
- Company-paid life insurance
- PTO (including sick leave)
- Parental leave
- Family care leave
- Bereavement leave
- Jury duty leave
- Voting leave
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Company discounts
- Military Leave Pay
- Adoption expense reimbursement
- Surrogacy expense reimbursement
- PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes
- Live Better U education benefit program (for full-time and part-time associates)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
