(USA) Maintenance Manager (Grocery) Automation

Position Summary...

What you'll do...

Join a high-impact maintenance team where you’ll play a critical role in driving performance, ensuring operational excellence, and supporting a safe, efficient, and people-focused environment. This role is central to sustaining facility success through strong leadership, strategic execution, and continuous improvement. If you enjoy leading teams, solving challenges, and making a daily difference, this opportunity is for you. As part of Walmart’s next-generation automated distribution network, this role plays a key leadership position in supporting and optimizing advanced automation systems. You will guide a skilled technical team while driving reliability across robotics, PLCs, and highly automated material handling systems, helping shape how a facility is built, optimized, and scaled from the ground up. What You’ll Do…

• Lead communication with associates, customers, suppliers, and cross-functional partners through clear verbal and written updates.
• Drive and execute the operational business plan to meet production, quality, and safety goals while implementing process improvements.
• Forecast, plan, and monitor staffing, workload, and performance to meet business demands.
• Manage financial responsibilities by tracking expenses, monitoring asset utilization, and analyzing business reports.
• Ensure compliance with logistics, company standards, and safety requirements through strong documentation and adherence to procedures.
• Oversee daily maintenance operations, ensuring performance in maintaining warehouse equipment and compliance with OSHA, DOT, NFPA, Hazardous Waste, Storm Water, and other regulations.
• Supervise and develop associates and leaders, providing coaching, performance feedback, and growth opportunities while supporting hiring, promotion, and evaluation processes.
• Lead reliability efforts across advanced automation systems including robotics, conveyor/sortation systems, and PLC-controlled equipment.
• Develop and execute preventative maintenance (PM) and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) strategies to improve system uptime and performance.
• Drive complex troubleshooting and root cause analysis for automation and control system failures, leveraging data and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Partner closely with operations, engineering, and vendors to support integration and scaling of new automation technologies.
• Utilize CMMS and data-driven tools to monitor system performance, identify trends, and proactively address maintenance needs.

You’ll Sweep Us Off Our Feet If You…

• Bring strong leadership experience in operations, logistics, supply chain, or maintenance environments.
• Have proven success managing teams and driving performance outcomes.
• Excel at problem-solving and decision-making, especially in fast-paced, high-volume settings.
• Demonstrate strong financial acumen, including budgeting and expense tracking.
• Are highly organized, safety-driven, and passionate about building a culture of compliance and continuous improvement.
• Have experience working with automated material handling systems, robotics, PLCs, or control systems.
• Bring expertise in Lean principles, reliability engineering, and continuous improvement methodologies.
• Have experience leading maintenance strategies in highly automated or greenfield/startup environments.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process. 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 $104,000.00 - $156,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
- Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location)
- Stock

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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.

Associate’s degree or equivalent technical certification (e.g., Maintenance, Controls, Electrical) and 1 year of experience in an operations, distribution, logistics, or retail environment with responsibilities including: supervising and developing managers/supervisors, managing workload across multiple departments, participating in hiring and promotions. OR at least 3 years of experience in a maintenance or related technical environment with the same leadership and staffing responsibilities listed above.
Associates will be required to attend and successfully complete all job-required trainings and assessments (for example, Academy trainings, Open Door trainings, etc.).

Preferred Qualifications...

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

Facility Maintenance, Financial Modeling and Analysis, General Maintenance, Managing challenging workforce issues, Material Handling Equipment (MHE), Modeling/Forecasting, Preparing and executing budgets, Profit and Loss (P&L) Accountability, Project Management, Supervising Associates, Walmart Logistics Manager, Walmart Logistics Systems

Associates: Electrical Science, Bachelors: Business, Bachelors: Finance, Bachelors: Logistics, Bachelors: Management, Bachelors: Operations Management

Primary Location...

596 POINTERS AUBURN RD, PILESGROVE, NJ 08098-2901, 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.