Technician, General Facilities Maintenance – Journeyman Electrician

Walmart Walmart · Retail · Boutte, LA

This role involves performing routine preventive maintenance and major/minor repairs on facilities, equipment, and fixtures using various craft skills, including electrical work. Responsibilities include managing work orders, schedules, and contractors, ensuring compliance with safety and environmental regulations, and leading team efforts. The role requires a Journeyman Electrician license and experience in the electrical trade.

What you'd actually do

  1. Performs routine preventive maintenance to ensure safety, proper functionality, and aesthetics of facilities, equipment, or fixtures by following established preventive maintenance schedules and guidelines; inspecting, cleaning, and repairing facilities, equipment, or fixtures; observing and documenting signs of wear and tear; gathering capital expense information; recommending repair needs to eliminate ongoing and future repairs; determining replacement needs; and documenting preventive maintenance activities.
  2. Performs major and minor repairs on facilities, equipment, or fixtures by utilizing multiple craft skills (for example, plumbing, electrical, carpentry, material handling equipment, food equipment); inspecting, operating, or testing facilities, equipment, or fixtures to diagnose issues; dismantling equipment, machines, or facilities to access and remove defective parts; diagnose problems utilizing blueprints, repair manuals, or parts catalogs as necessary; utilizing hand tools, power tools, hoists, and other equipment; providing prompt response to emergency calls; and documenting repair activities.
  3. Manages work orders, maintenance schedules, and contractors by completing and providing required written and electronic information (for example, expense vouchers, weekly summaries, work orders, maintenance logs); conducting price comparison of parts and travel related costs; ordering parts and replacement equipment and tracking orders; recording purchases and usage; submitting warranty claims; complying with Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations and guidelines; ensuring quality work is completed that complies with federal, state, and local regulations; ensuring contractors follow Walmart quality standards, safety requirements, and meet contract requirements; identifying and reporting deficiencies; unloading and storing equipment; and transporting equipment between facilities.
  4. Leads and participates in teams by using and sharing resources, information, and tools; determining customer needs and business priorities; coordinating and executing work assignments; providing advice, feedback, and support to ensure timelines and work quality are achieved; and modeling and helping others with how to adapt to change or new challenges.
  5. Develops, communicates, and implements processes and practices to meet business needs by collaborating with managers, co-workers, customers, and other business partners; analyzing and applying information from multiple sources; monitoring progress and results; and identifying and addressing improvement opportunities.

Skills

Required

  • Electrical trade experience
  • Journeyman Electrician license
  • Valid Driver's License
  • Eligible for a Commercial Driver's License (CDL)

Nice to have

  • Vocational or Technical trade program completion
  • Proficiency in word processing, spreadsheet, email, and presentation software
  • License in related trade in city and/or state where job is located

What the JD emphasized

  • Licensed Journeyman Electrician or equivalent in state that you will be working
  • 2 years of experience in the electrical trade