Director, Energy Infrastructure Engineering

Position Summary

The Director, Energy -Mechanical Infrastructure Engineering will serve as the technical leader for mechanical and thermal infrastructure supporting strategic deployments across Walmart's portfolio. You will assess site capabilities, define infrastructure requirements, establish engineering standards, develop scalable technical solutions, and lead the engineering partners required to execute them.

This role spans cooling, HVAC, hydronic systems, plumbing, heat rejection, controls, and other critical mechanical infrastructure. You will partner across Energy, Engineering, Construction, Facilities, Procurement, and external partners from feasibility through design, commissioning, and operational turnover.

A core mandate is translating complex facility requirements into reliable, repeatable solutions that scale across Walmart's footprint.

What you'll do

• Assess site mechanical and thermal infrastructure for capacity, constraints, upgrades, and feasibility.
• Serve as technical authority for cooling, HVAC, hydronic, plumbing, heat-rejection, controls, and related systems.
• Establish basis-of design, engineering standards, specifications, reference designs, and acceptance criteria.
• Develop scalable solutions balancing capacity, reliability, resiliency, efficiency, safety, cost, schedule, and growth.
• Direct engineering performed by Engineers of Record, consultants, contractors, and equipment vendors.
• Lead technical decisions from feasibility through commissioning and turnover.
• Incorporate field lessons learned into future designs and standards.
• Build the partner ecosystem and engineering governance required to scale.

What you'll bring

• Demonstrated experience designing, assessing, or governing complex mechanical and thermal infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of HVAC, cooling, hydronic systems, pumps, piping,heat rejection, plumbing, controls, and related infrastructure.
• Experience evaluating capacity, reliability, redundancy, system configuration, and major infrastructure upgrades.
• Experience with large-scale, mission-critical, industrial, or high-capacity thermal infrastructure.
• Experience with liquid-based cooling, heat exchangers, advanced heat-rejection systems, or other high-density thermal applications.
• Experience developing engineering standards, reference designs, specifications, and commissioning requirements.
• Experience leading Engineers of Record, consultants, contractors, equipment vendors, and cross-functional technical teams.

Pay and benefits

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.

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

• Stock

Minimum Qualifications

• Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
• 5+ years of engineering and construction experience in the energy, mobility, or building infrastructure sectors.
• Experience with site inspection, project acceptance tests, and commissioning procedures, and typical equipment utilized for such activities.
• Experience analyzing cooling and mechanical systems through technical reviews, data analysis, and on-site inspections.
• Experience with site inspections, project acceptance testing, commissioning procedures, and associated test equipment.
• Familiarity with technical due diligence, including evaluation of HVAC, liquid cooling, hydronic, plumbing, controls, and heat-rejection systems.
• Working knowledge of applicable mechanical, plumbing, building, fire, and energy codes and standards.
• Experience operating at scale within a highly matrixed organization.
• Strong team-oriented collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

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

Primary Location

814 Respect Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America