Senior Manager, Program Management - EV Commissioning Automation & Quality - Walmart Energy
About The Position
The Senior Manager, Program Management - EV Commissioning Automation & Quality leads the final phase of Walmart’s Retail EV Charging development lifecycle, ensuring sites transition efficiently from utility energization to customer-ready operation. This role drives commissioning execution, vendor coordination, and system integration while advancing automation and standardization to reduce time-to-open and improve quality across the national portfolio. Walmart’s Retail EV Charging Development team designs, deploys, and commissions a best-in-class public charging network across Walmart and Sam’s Club locations. The team partners across Realty, Energy, Utilities, Global Tech, and Store Operations to build customer-centric, cost-effective charging infrastructure.
Requirements
- Experience commissioning and deploying EV charging infrastructure or similar complex electrical systems at scale.
- Strong understanding of system integration, testing, and operational readiness for distributed energy or infrastructure projects.
- Experience managing vendors and coordinating across hardware, software, and utility stakeholders.
- Ability to identify process inefficiencies and implement automation to improve speed and consistency.
- Strong communication, problem-solving, and project management skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams.
- 2 years’ experience leading cross-functional teams.
- 3 years’ experience using intermediate functionality of Microsoft Office.
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Human Resources, or related field and 4 years’ experience in project management, compliance, operations management, or related area OR 6 years’ experience in project management, compliance, operations management, or related area.
Nice To Haves
- Managing a budget, profit and loss statement, or relate financial process
- Master’s degree in Business Administration or related field like (not limited to) project management, compliance, operations management, or related area
- Project Management Certification
Responsibilities
- Lead commissioning activities from utility energization through customer activation, ensuring sites are fully operational and meet performance standards.
- Manage commissioning vendors, EV hardware suppliers, and backend CSMS providers to ensure seamless system integration and readiness.
- Partner with Development, Construction, Utilities, and Global Tech teams to align commissioning timelines and resolve integration challenges.
- Drive automation and standardization of commissioning workflows in collaboration with Retail EV Charging Innovations and Global Tech.
- Establish and maintain quality assurance protocols, testing procedures, and performance benchmarks across all deployments.
- Partner with Customer Engagement & Growth to support successful site launches and customer activation.
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Vision coverage
- Dental coverage
- 401(k)
- Stock purchase
- Company-paid life insurance
- PTO (including sick leave)
- Parental leave
- Family care leave
- Bereavement
- Jury duty
- Voting
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Company discounts
- Military Leave Pay
- Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
- PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes
- Walmart-paid education benefit program (Live Better U) for full-time and part-time associates
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
1-10 employees
