- Line of Business: Grocery Retail
- Banner Name: Kroger
- Hourly or Salaried: Salaried
Position Summary:
Supervise a staff of facility maintenance technicians who perform maintenance services, energy maintenance repairs, and oversee preventive maintenance programs for retail stores and company facilities, buildings and grounds. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.
Responsibilities
- Supervise and coach direct reports in the performance of their duties; complete performance reviews and provide feedback to direct reports.
- Manage maintenance budgets, service levels and repair effectiveness.
- Manage company and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations associated with refrigerant usage.
- Ensure optimal functioning of building systems, including mechanical, electrical, refrigeration, heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) and life safety through the training of technician staff in EPA and company standards.
- Develop and execute division's refrigeration, HVAC and non-refrigerated equipment break/fix and preventative maintenance programs.
- Manage third-party contracted maintenance services.
- Manage the integration of energy reduction best practices into daily maintenance activities.
- Provide the Facility Engineering division manager with reports detailing budgets, service level information, repair effectiveness and refrigerant usage.
- Educate associates and enforce/follow maintenance software best practices.
- Assist construction and minor capital teams with project scoping, design criteria and quality control.
- Coach maintenance technicians to follow Facility Engineering's safety standards and training by providing support to the safety coordinator's directives.
- Manage and reinforce company's best practices for requisition and surplus, inventory management, and R&S transportation.
- Travel to division locations regularly to engage staff and evaluate the effectiveness of programs and day to day maintenance operations.
- Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.
Qualifications
- Assistant FE maintenance manager
- FE maintenance group supervisor
- Maintenance engineer
- Regional project manager
- Refrigeration/HVAC maintenance experience
- Experience reading engineering drawings, manuals and schematics
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Proficient skill level using Microsoft Office
- Demonstrated mentoring and training experience
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- EPA Type 2 Certification
- Level 10 - 10+ years' supervisory and management experience within a maintenance organization and overall satisfactory performance
