Energy Technician
Seattle, WAJob$48.7–65.8/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Energy Technician provides energy maintenance and commissioning services to stores, improving the efficiency of refrigeration, building, and HVAC systems while maintaining store conditions. The role manages energy equipment controls and preventive maintenance, programs and installs energy management equipment, modifies refrigeration operations, and supports other technicians through service calls. Work also includes maintaining truck inventory and work-area sanitation.
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Position Summary:
Provide Energy Maintenance and Commissioning service to the stores by improving the operating efficiencies of the existing refrigeration, building, and HVAC systems which will enable maintaining better store conditions while using less energy to operate. Role model and demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety of others.
RESPONSIBILITIES
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Manage Energy Maintenance Equipment Controls.
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Program Energy Management controllers.
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Install and program Energy Management equipment.
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Modify refrigeration systems operations to run more efficiently while maintaining proper operating temperature.
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Manage the preventative maintenance program.
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Run service calls to assist other technicians.
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Equipment to be worked on include, but is not limited to: refrigerated cases, compressors, condensers, controllers, electric panels, EMS wiring, case wiring, lighting, HVAC systems, hot cases, anti-sweat devices, VSD/VFD.
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Maintain and controls inventory for truck stock.
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Maintain sanitation of work areas to standard.
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Demonstrate the ability and desire to promote, communicate and implement company initiatives and process improvements to direct reports in a positive manner.
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Able to tactfully and calmly handle stressful situations and make a positive impression on associates and customers.
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Be a team player and contribute positively to build team moral.
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Communicate and interact effectively and amicably with the team including other associates, and supervisors and exercise consideration for others.
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Must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.
QUALIFICATIONS
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Prior experience in the maintenance field or appropriate school training.
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EPA refrigerant license.
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Prior experience with Energy Management equipment
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Prior experience with Refrigeration systems
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Ability to program Energy Management controllers
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Able to enter data.
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Able to travel independently.
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Able to cope with stressful situations.
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Ability to communicate effectively in both verbal and written form with all levels of management.
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Ability to work weekends and overnights.
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Proficient in Excel, Word, Power Point with the ability to learn new computer skills.
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Customer service role model.
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Selfmotivated, able to organize, prioritize, plan and meet deadlines.
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Decision maker with problem solving skills.
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Must be professional, dependable, possess positive attitude, good judgment, and be able to gain the support of others to get the job done.
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High level of electrical/mechanical/HVAC skills and experience with all equipment in the stores
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Selfmotivated and able to perform job responsibilities with minimal supervision
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Ability to accept change in schedule, steps within a process, and daily functions
$48.70 - $65.80 per hour
How this job compares
Set against the 6,818 open Maintenance Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$48.7–65.8/hr
- Washington median$28–35/hr77 hourly ranges
- US median$27–34/hr3,107 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $57.25/hr, is 85% above the Washington median midpoint ($31/hr) — in the top quarter of Maintenance Technician hourly ranges in Washington.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 103 open Maintenance Technician jobs in Washington and 6,818 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- Maintenance Technician postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 4 years (3,894 postings).
- Education
- 21 of the 6,818 open Maintenance Technician jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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