Position: Senior Manager, Automation Engineering

Job Location: 702 SW 8th Street, Bentonville, AR 72716

Duties: Data and Digital Literacy: Leverages data analysis tools to explore moderately complex data, develops and tests hypotheses, uses data to influence strategic work, and builds and presents insights. Identifies, implements, and drives technology change within scope of work. Uses visualization tools to represent data and construct coherent stories to influence decisions. Process Flow Design: Interprets information to quantify anticipated outcome of supply chain decisions. Describes typical tasks associated with using and managing suppliers. Understands issues and considerations for inbound and outbound logistics. Describes basic logistical processes and subprocesses. Uses variety of business process design tools and techniques. Examines, interprets, and explains workflow materials and documentation. Analyzes process and associated business logic and offers recommendations based on analysis. Carries out business process design tasks with some supervision and coaching. Documents common obstacles and barriers for effective implementation. Automation System Design: Identifies areas for usage of automation machineries. Assesses tasks for automation potential. Obtains information about alternative automation solutions. Assists with analyzing space and cost requirements associated with machinery usage. Identifies issues and provides resolutions to problems related to automation machineries. Automation Integration: Identifies common issues and considerations for bringing a new automation design to facility. Works with teams to measure and manage project performance. Documents implementation plans and estimates for projects. Documents project implementation meetings, particularly status reports on next steps. Participates in development of technology interfaces and bridges. Works with existing interfaces and integration and migration plans within assigned area. Prepares integration tests. Measures and compares results with established test criteria. Project Management: Identifies project risks and vulnerabilities. Creates contingency plans. Conducts regular and ad-hoc project reviews with project teams, sponsors, and clients. Plans, estimates, staffs, organizes, and monitors significant projects. Utilizes preferred tools, techniques, and methods for estimating project costs and timelines. Builds strategic roadmap that identifies and leverages synergies. Communicates reporting requirements. Creates monitoring and control mechanisms. Continuous Improvement: Streamlines critical workflow for executing key processes. Develops methods for improving and establishing controls for critical processes. Sets priorities for addressing process problems that limit performance. Develops scenarios for various system interventions that can be tested, refined, and implemented over time. Analyzes findings from improvement cycles to ensure success of interventions. Clarifies cause/effect relationships among factors that impact organization performance. Engineering Economics: Advises others on variety of financial tools, techniques, and approaches. Builds multiple business cases in order to provide comparisons and fully realized options. Conducts and documents analyses of financial data and cost drivers. Oversees financial analysis to evaluate automation and systems performance. Evaluates financial data and ensures return-on-investment performance according to financial plans. Anticipates potential impact of decisions based on financial data analysis. Advanced Analytics: Applies data analysis and data modeling techniques to establish, modify, and maintain data structures and associated components. Utilizes designated data analysis software to analyze business data. Applies specific computing languages and tools in machine learning. Supports identification and application of statistical techniques based on requirements. Conduct statistical experiments and builds statistical models.

Minimum education and experience required: Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Engineering, or a related field plus 4 years of experience in Engineering, supply chain, or related experience; OR 6 years of experience in Engineering, supply chain, or related experience.

Skills required: Must have experience with: Integrating operations flow and providing feedback on product and tech solutions; Designing operations flow to achieve business goals; Analyzing metrics and reporting to assess process flows; Utilizing SQL to run data analysis; Developing Scope of Work for product and process roadmap; Data Representation / Visualization (SQL, Power Bi, Microsoft Tableau); Strategic Planning; Continuous Process Improvement; Supply Chain Engineering; Project Management; and Validating and Implementing tech changes. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

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Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.