Senior Manager, Automation Engineering - Real Time Visibility
WalmartPosition Summary... What you'll do... Role summary: 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. About the team: 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. What you'll do: 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. What you'll bring: 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. 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 o…