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BJ’s Wholesale Club is powered by more than 30,000 team members who make a real impact every day. Whether you're stocking shelves, solving problems or shaping strategy, your work helps families save on what matters most.
We’re a team built on purpose and opportunity. Join us and be part of something meaningful.
Why You’ll Love Working at BJ’s
At BJ’s Wholesale Club, our team members are at the heart of everything we do. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, well-being and future – both on and off the job. When you grow, we grow.
Here’s just some of what you can look forward to:
- Weekly Pay: Get paid every week so that you can manage your money on your terms.
- Free BJ’s Memberships: Enjoy a complimentary The Club Card Membership, plus a free Supplemental Membership for someone in your household.*
- Generous Paid Time Off: Take the time you need with vacation, personal, sick days, holidays, bereavement, and jury duty leave.*
- Flexible and Affordable Health Benefits: Choose from three medical plans, and access optional dental, vision, Health Savings Account (HSA), and flexible spending account options to fit your lifestyle.*
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan: Build your financial future with a company match (available to team members 18 and older).*
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Accumulate funds through after-tax payroll deductions that can be used to purchase shares of BJ’s common stock at a 15% discount.*
*Eligibility requirements vary by position.
Job Summary:
Reporting into the Director, Robotics and Automation, the Technical Program Manager will increase BJ's supply chain capacity, in a growth environment, by managing the introduction of automation, robotics and systems into the BJ’s warehouse environment. The objective is to drive down overall supply chain cost by increasing efficiency through robotics, automation, and system integration.
Job Responsibilities:
- Working with the Director, execute the robotics and automation business plan. Work to adapt that plan as people, market technology and company objectives evolve across BJ’s warehouses.
- Proven industry experience automating warehouse processes, systems and increasing labor capacity through robotics. This includes:
- Increase labor productivity and space utilization by implementing robotics and automation solutions across the warehouse footprint.
- Direct experience implementing robotics and automation for common warehouse operational tasks including pallet sortation, pallet load/unload, automated guided vehicles and custom pallet build for in-store and B2B receipt. Experience training TM’s on these technologies.
- Analyze order picking and packing technologies to develop a more responsive operation that increases accuracy and throughput.
- Maximize investments in WMS and TMS and investigate technology bolt-on options to further enable the supply chain to meet growing demand with greater efficiency. Experience implementing warehouse control and execution systems.
- In Omni operations, work with cross functional teams to lower order fulfillment cost. This may include optimizing in-club picking/packing processes for labor efficiency.
- Analyze micro-fulfillment as a method to increase speed, agility, and responsiveness while decreasing cost in the context of dynamically changing eCommerce demand.
- Integrate B2B sales systems and in-club processes, including new types of facilities to optimize order flows, in-club staging and labor utilization.
- Develop and train others in the operation of all types of automated manufacturing equipment and processes, generate detailed work instructions.
- Define, oversee, and commission the implementation of newly developed automation systems.
- Manage, schedule, and budget assigned projects. Improve efficiency for current work and systems.
- Lead and work cross-functionally with Learning & Development(L&D) and facility engineers to develop and deliver robotics training for deployment, troubleshooting, and maintenance.
- Partner with L&D to develop and deploy Team Member training.
Technical Design & Development:
- Provide technical guidance in making design choices for BJ’s for warehouse deployment. Drives continuous improvement, adaptation, and growth.
- Expert in technical project planning, engineering implementation and delivery – including concept design and architecture reviews.
- Develop and connect technical plans to measurable outcomes through understanding of business and innovation goals. Manage risks related to people, process, and technology.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years’ work experience in warehouse or manufacturing environment, working directly with emerging technologies, specifically Robotics. Experience supporting the build-out and running of transformation pipeline.
- Experience developing automation solutions for warehouse applications.
- Experience using OEE metrics to monitor and improve automation equipment.
- Experience defining automation equipment/process path specific KPIs and dashboards for both Operations and Support teams.
- Minimum bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, relevant engineering degree or mathematics. MBA preferred.
- Experience with Warehouse and Transportation Management Systems as well as Warehouse Control and Execution systems. Generally comfortable with IT systems, strong knowledge of complete Microsoft Office suite.
- Ability to understand and develop constructive partnerships with functional business partners on a day-to-day basis and ability to negotiate with business partners at all levels of the organization.
- Clear and effective communication, attention to detail, ability to process information with high levels of accuracy.
- Demonstrated leadership capabilities, including supervising cross-functional teams, training team members, strong presentation skills, and the ability to track pilot tests and communicate results.
- Strategic business judgement to understand drivers of performance. Data driven and objective lens to view operational performance.
- Ability to build constructive relationships with senior leaders in Operations as well as SMEs in the home office and field.
- Ability to manage high volume of work, multiple tasks, meet project timelines
Job Conditions:
- Up to 80% travel to DC’s and/or Clubs. Must have a valid driver’s license.
- Must be comfortable with and have experience working in construction zones which may be dusty or loud. Baseline knowledge of proper PP&E at such locations is required.
- Most of the time is spent moving about on hard surfaces.
