Automation Jobs in Arkansas

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

The Senior Manager, Automation Engineering is responsible for leading the execution of multiple complex automation, material handling, and industrial racking projects across an assigned region. The Senior Manager provides leadership and oversight across multiple concurrent projects, ensuring each is delivered safely, to scope, on schedule, within budget, and at the required operational performance.
The role will provide manage & coordinate multiple projects, manage key vendors and system integrators, and proactively identify and resolve risks that could impact execution. The Senior Manager serves as the primary regional escalation point, connecting site-level execution with portfolio leadership and cross-functional partners. The role will leverage AI, data, and digital tools to improve project visibility, identify emerging risks and trends, streamline project management activities, and enable faster, data-driven decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Project Execution: Lead execution across multiple concurrent automation, material handling, and industrial racking projects within an assigned region, ensuring alignment to safety, scope, schedule, budget, quality, and operational readiness commitments.
• Project Leadership: Provide direction to ensure consistent execution standards, project controls, communication, and accountability across assigned projects.
• Scope, Schedule & Budget: Maintain regional visibility and accountability for approved project scope, schedules, milestones, capital budgets, forecasts, and change control. Identify variances early and ensure appropriate recovery plans are established and executed.
• Regional Resource Management: Balance implementation resources and priorities across multiple projects based on project phase, risk, schedule, and business needs. Identify resource constraints early and coordinate with leadership to resolve gaps.
• Vendor Management: Manage performance of equipment suppliers, system integrators, rack installers, contractors, and other implementation partners across assigned projects. Identify recurring performance gaps and hold vendors accountable to contractual, schedule, quality, and performance commitments.
• Risk Management: Maintain visibility to project risk registers across the region. Identify common and high-impact risks, ensure appropriate mitigation plans are in place, and escalate risks requiring broader organizational support.
• Open-Issue Resolution: Drive resolution of critical issues, dependencies, and decisions that extend beyond an individual project's ability to resolve. Remove barriers and connect project teams with the appropriate technical, functional, or leadership resources.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Engineering, Construction, Operations, Reliability/Maintenance, Technology, Safety, Procurement, Finance, and external partners to coordinate regional execution and resolve cross-functional dependencies.
• Installation & Site Readiness: Ensure project teams have comprehensive readiness plans covering site access, equipment delivery and staging, installation sequencing, utilities, construction interfaces, technology dependencies, and operational requirements.
• Commissioning & Go-Live: Provide regional oversight of testing, commissioning, acceptance testing, punch-list closure, performance validation, training, and operational readiness, ensuring projects meet defined acceptance criteria prior to handoff.
• Change Management: Ensure proposed project and field changes are appropriately evaluated for scope, cost, schedule, technical, and operational impacts, with appropriate documentation and approvals prior to execution.
• AI & Digital Tools: Leverage approved AI and digital project-management tools across regional projects to improve schedule and cost analysis, risk identification, issue tracking, document review, reporting, and trend identification. Use AI-generated insights to proactively identify constraints and accelerate informed decision-making while maintaining accountability for project outcomes.
• Project Governance: Lead consistent regional project reviews providing fact-based visibility to scope, schedule, budget, risks, open issues, vendor performance, acceptance testing, and operational readiness. Escalate material concerns to the Director with clear recovery plans and recommended actions.
• Operational Handoff: Ensure consistent transition of completed projects to Operations and Reliability, including documentation, training, spare parts, punch-list closure, outstanding issues, asset information, and system ownership.
• Continuous Improvement: Capture lessons learned across regional projects and share insights with Engineering and Implementation leadership to improve future designs, project standards, vendor expectations, commissioning practices, and implementation processes.
• Respect the Individual: Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent through feedback coaching mentoring and developmental opportunities promotes an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer member and company and regularly recognizes others contributions and accomplishments
• Act with Integrity Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity ethics and compliance models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture supports Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates customers and the world around us creating a sense of belonging eliminating waste participating in local giving
• Act with Integrity Acts as an altruistic servant leader and is consistently humble self aware honest and transparent
  Serve our Customers and Members Delivers expected business results while putting the customer member first and consistently applying an omnimerchant mindset and acts with an Every Day Low Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers members
• Serve our Customers and Members Adopts a holistic perspective that considers data analytics customer member insights and different parts of the business when making plans and shaping the teams strategy
• Strive for Excellence Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset seeks feedback asks thoughtful questions fosters an environment that supports learning innovation and learning from mistakes and intelligent risk taking and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks
• Strive for Excellence Seeks and implements continuous improvements and encourages the team to leverage new digital tools and ways of working

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. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices. 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.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.
For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.
The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00 - $220,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :

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Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1: Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field and 4 years’ experience in Engineering, supply chain, or a related area. Option 2: 6
years’ experience in Engineering, supply chain, or a related area.
2 years’ supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Masters: Computer Engineering

Primary Location...

805 Respect, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America

Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.