(USA) Area Manager - Maintenance, Supply Chain

Walmart•Lakeland, FL

9d•$80,000 - $120,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Area Manager - Maintenance manages financial aspects within the area of responsibility, including tracking expenses and capital expenditures, monitoring asset utilization, and preparing or analyzing business reports. The role maintains maintenance quality and safety standards by ensuring associates are trained on Supply Chain and company policies, procedures, and standards, and by monitoring compliance. The manager demonstrates and communicates maintenance procedures, supports safe and effective equipment operation, responds to maintenance-related customer, compliance, and operational issues, and helps prevent their recurrence. The position supports maintenance process and standards improvements for specific equipment types and applies a broad technical understanding of equipment systems, performance monitoring, and inspection techniques. The manager coordinates workloads, monitors performance, provides feedback, identifies development needs, and participates in hiring, promotion, mentoring, and evaluation. In collaboration with other Maintenance Area Managers, the role helps determine capacity and optimize service delivery. The manager oversees routine equipment inspections and maintenance for warehouse systems and equipment, including material handling equipment, pneumatic and electrical systems, air compressors, ammonia refrigeration equipment, and general building repairs. The role maintains required checklists, follows work priorities, supports compliance with applicable state and federal regulations, and confirms parts inventory logs and reports. It also responds to incident alarms, conducts triage as required, follows standard incident protocols, and uses continuous improvement and reliability tools to improve performance and key measures such as uptime, throughput, and OEE. The position works to eliminate breakdowns through root-cause and component-failure analysis and predictive maintenance techniques. The role is expected to model Walmart's values and leadership expectations: respect for individuals, integrity, service to customers and members, and striving for excellence. This includes building inclusive, high-performing teams; developing and retaining talent; acting ethically and accountably; making data-informed decisions; and encouraging continuous improvement and learning. The position is based at 6800 State Road 33 N, Lakeland, Florida. Walmart offers a salary range of $80,000–$120,000 annually, plus performance-based bonus awards and other compensation that may include regional pay-zone adjustments and stock.

Responsibilities

Manage expenses, capital expenditures, asset utilization, and business reporting for the area of responsibility.
Maintain maintenance quality and safety standards by training associates and monitoring compliance with company and Supply Chain policies and procedures.
Demonstrate maintenance procedures and help associates perform safe, high-quality maintenance operations.
Identify and address customer, compliance, and operational issues related to maintenance, taking steps to prevent recurrence.
Support improvements to processes and standards for specific equipment types and escalate potential issues.
Coordinate workloads, monitor performance, provide feedback, identify development needs, and participate in hiring, promotion, mentoring, and evaluation of associates and leaders.
Develop maintenance associates' capabilities and improve work processes through strategic leadership.
Collaborate with other Maintenance Area Managers to determine capacity and optimize service delivery.
Ensure routine inspection and maintenance of warehouse equipment and systems, including material handling equipment, pneumatic and electrical systems, air compressors, ammonia refrigeration equipment, and general building repairs.
Maintain daily, weekly, and monthly checklists; follow work priorities; and monitor compliance with applicable state and federal regulations, including OSHA, hazardous waste, NFPA, storm water, and DOT requirements.
Confirm parts inventory logs and reports using established standards and templates.
Build stakeholder relationships, identify business needs, implement necessary processes and practices, monitor results, and adapt to improvement opportunities and changing demands.
Respond to incident alarms, assess potential causes, and determine appropriate action for straightforward incidents.
Conduct triage as required and follow standard protocols, including downtime processes for critical-path assets, ticket submission and escalation, and log updates.
Use continuous improvement tools, systems, and processes to monitor maintenance and reliability performance and improve KPIs such as equipment uptime, product throughput, and OEE.
Apply predictive maintenance techniques and root-cause and component-failure analysis to eliminate breakdowns.
Model company policies, procedures, values, ethics, and integrity; support the Open Door Policy and the implementation of business plans.
Build collaborative, trusting relationships; communicate effectively; develop and recognize talent; and foster a workplace where associates feel supported and included.
Make data-informed decisions that balance short- and long-term priorities and serve customers, members, associates, and other stakeholders.
Encourage learning, resilience, continuous improvement, and adoption of new technologies and skills.

Benefits

Medical insurance
Vision insurance
Dental insurance
401(k)
Stock purchase plan
Company-paid life insurance
Paid time off, including sick leave
Parental leave
Family care leave
Bereavement leave
Jury duty leave
Voting leave
Short-term disability
Long-term disability
Company discounts
Military Leave Pay
Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
Live Better U education benefit, including tuition, books, and fees for eligible programs
Performance-based bonus awards
Regional Pay Zone compensation adjustment for certain positions
Stock compensation for certain positions