Service Shop Preventative Maintenance Technician - Searcy, AR (2nd Shift)
About The Position
The Service Shop Preventative Maintenance Technician helps keep Walmart Transportation’s fleet safe, reliable, and road-ready. The role performs preventative maintenance, inspections, repairs, and replacements on Walmart equipment, including trailers, tractors, yard trucks, shop equipment, and service vehicles, while following company policies, DOT guidelines, and shop safety procedures. The work supports equipment uptime, reduces breakdowns, and helps ensure compliance across the transportation network. The technician creates and processes work orders, assesses repair needs, identifies parts, selects repair solutions, and completes required logs and computer-based documentation. Duties also include repairing or replacing brake components, wheel seals, and tractor-trailer tires, as well as receiving fuel deliveries, monitoring safety compliance, and collecting and preparing fuel samples and paperwork. The position requires communicating work status and repair details and adapting to priorities, feedback, and changing work needs.
Requirements
- Valid state-issued driver's license.
- Brake inspection qualified as defined in Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration regulations, Section 396.25.
- Vehicle Inspection qualified as defined in Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration regulations, Section 396.19.
- Experience performing preventative maintenance and mechanical repairs on trailers, tractors, or similar heavy equipment.
- Working knowledge of brake systems, including air, ABS, and disc brakes, and tire service, including dismounting and installation.
- Ability to consistently follow DOT guidelines and shop safety procedures.
- Skill in diagnosing needs, selecting parts, and accurately documenting work in work orders and logs.
- Ability to communicate status and repair details verbally and in writing.
Nice To Haves
- Microsoft Office.
- ASE Certification.
- DOT Transportation Certification.
Responsibilities
- Perform basic to intermediate inspections, preventative maintenance, repairs, and replacements on trailers, tractors, yard trucks, shop equipment, and service vehicles.
- Create and process work orders; assess needs, identify parts, and select repair solutions.
- Repair or replace brake components, wheel seals, and tractor-trailer tires in accordance with DOT requirements.
- Communicate work updates and complete required logs, records, and computer-based documentation.
- Receive fuel drops, monitor safety compliance, and collect and prepare fuel samples and paperwork.
- Follow company policies, procedures, standards of ethics and integrity, DOT guidelines, and shop safety procedures.
- Identify priorities, deadlines, and expectations; carry out assignments and recommend ways to address improvement opportunities.
- Collaborate with managers, co-workers, customers, and other business partners.
Benefits
- Competitive pay and performance-based bonus awards.
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k).
- Stock purchase plan.
- Company-paid life insurance.
- Paid time off, including sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement leave, jury duty, and voting leave.
- Short-term and long-term disability.
- Company discounts.
- Military Leave Pay.
- Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
- PTO and/or PPTO usable for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
- Live Better U education benefit program, with tuition, books, and fees paid for eligible programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
No Education Listed
