Area Manager - Maintenance (Grocery)

About the Role

You will oversee daily operations in a Walmart Logistics facility, implementing business plans, managing staff, and ensuring productivity, quality, and safety standards are met. This role involves supervising associates and leaders, managing maintenance department operations, and handling financial aspects as assigned.

Responsibilities

• Communicate with individuals or groups (e.g., customers, suppliers, associates) verbally and in writing.
• Implement the business plan for your area by setting goals, managing staffing and scheduling, assigning duties, and coordinating workloads to achieve facility objectives (e.g., production, quality, safety).
• Monitor and manage productivity by preparing, reviewing, and analyzing business reports.
• Maintain quality and safety standards by ensuring associates are trained on Logistics and company policies, monitoring compliance, and distributing procedures and documentation.
• Identify and address associate, customer, or supplier concerns by consulting with others and determining corrective actions or recommendations.
• Supervise and develop associates and leaders by assigning duties, monitoring performance, providing feedback, modeling policies, identifying training needs, and participating in hiring, promotions, coaching, and evaluations.
• Manage maintenance department operations, including monitoring warehouse equipment (e.g., material handling equipment, pneumatic systems, electrical systems, air compressors, ammonia refrigeration equipment, general building repairs) and ensuring compliance with state and federal regulations (e.g., OSHA, Hazardous Waste, NFPA, Storm Water, DOT).
• Manage financial aspects by monitoring expenses, capital expenditures, asset utilization, and preparing or reviewing business reports.
• Embody Walmart’s values:
  • Respect the Individual: Build high-performing teams, embrace diversity, foster inclusion, and create opportunities for associates to thrive.
  • Act with Integrity: Uphold ethical standards, model Walmart’s values, hold yourself and others accountable, and support sustainability goals.
  • Serve Our Customers and Members: Prioritize customer needs, adapt to shopping behaviors, and balance short- and long-term priorities using data-driven insights.
  • Strive for Excellence: Demonstrate curiosity, take calculated risks, encourage learning from mistakes, and drive continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Associate’s Degree or Technical School Certification in an industrial-related field and 1 year of supervisory experience in a maintenance department, or
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Industrial, or a related field, or
• 1 year of supervisory experience in a maintenance-related environment (supervising, evaluating, mentoring, and developing managers/supervisors; managing workload; participating in hiring/promotions), or
• 2 years of Walmart Logistics maintenance experience, including 6 months leading a work or project team (e.g., risk control), or
• 2 years of supervisory experience in an industrial-related environment, with 1 year in the maintenance field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with compliance, general maintenance, or regulatory agencies.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business or Logistics.

Benefits

• Health Benefits: Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Financial Benefits: 401(k), stock purchase plan, company-paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability.
• Paid Time Off: PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting leave. PTO meets or exceeds paid sick leave laws where applicable.
• Education: Live Better U program covers tuition, books, and fees for high school completion, bachelor’s degrees, English Language Learning, and short-form certificates (eligibility requirements apply).
• Additional Benefits: Company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.

Pay

The annual salary range for this position is $88,000–$132,000. Additional compensation may include:

• Annual or quarterly performance bonuses.
• Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) adjustments based on location.
• Stock awards.

Location: 2701 South Driver Road, Shafter, CA 93263, United States.