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Maintenance Specialist

Kroger Family of Companies

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Compensation
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Location
Phoenix, AZ
Work Authorization
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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Valid Driver's License

Job overview

The Maintenance Specialist maintains and repairs equipment, lift trucks, mobile equipment, and building systems in a distribution center. The role includes preventive and predictive maintenance, diagnosing equipment failures, determining repair materials, maintaining spare-parts inventory, and entering maintenance data into a computerized system. The specialist also works with maintenance diagnostics equipment, repairs hydraulic and electrical systems, and maintains facility cleanliness.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Equipment RepairPreventive MaintenancePredictive MaintenanceCMMSMaintenance DiagnosticsBlueprint ReadingPlumbingBuilding MaintenanceHydraulicsElectrical SystemsForklift RepairDocument InterpretationVerbal CommunicationWritten CommunicationPresentation SkillsMathematicsAnalytical SkillsInstruction InterpretationDistribution Center ProcessesOrganizational SkillsPlanningAttention to DetailDeadline ManagementHand Truck OperationPallet Jack OperationPower Lift Equipment Operation

Qualifications

High School Education or GED2+ Years Plumbing, Blueprint Reading, Building Maintenance, Hydraulics, and Electrical Experience4 Years Forklift Repair or Equivalent Education and ExperienceValid Driver's License

Full job description

Position Summary:

Responsible for maintaining and repairing equipment, fixtures and manner building repairs in the distribution center. Maintain and repair all lift trucks and mobile equipment. Role model and demonstrate the companys core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety of others.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Maintain and repair carts, pallet jacks, reach trucks, stock pickers, turret trucks, sweepers, scrubbers, and fork lift attachments

  • Repair and maintain battery chargers, batteries and other equipment as needed

  • Perform preventative maintenance and repairs on all lift trucks

  • Assist and monitor equipment process parameters to perform predictive / preventive maintenance and enter data into Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS)

  • Maintain inventory of spare parts, special need items and tools

  • Ability to operate computers and maintenance diagnostics equipment including analog and digital multi-meters, pyrometers, photo-tachometer, etc.

  • Diagnose failures, determine parts and material requirements, and perform repairs as required to resume operation on production equipment

  • Effectively communicate with peers

  • Ensure and maintain the cleanliness of all equipment, workstations and facility

  • Repair and maintain hydraulic systems, air compressors, fire system

  • Weld, cut, design and repair aluminum and steel structures and devises

  • Maintain building maintenance; electrical systems, plumbing, etc.

  • Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation

QUALIFICATIONS

  • High school education or general education degree (GED)

  • 2 + years experience in plumbing, blueprint reading, general building maintenance, hydraulic and electrical experience;

  • 4 years in fork lift repair, or equivalent combination of education and experience

  • Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals

  • Excellent verbal and written communication including presentation skills

  • Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry with the ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations

  • Excellent analytical skills

  • Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form

  • Ability to work weekends, nights, overtime and holidays on a regular basis

  • Familiarity with industry/technical and distribution center terms and processes

  • Strong organizational and planning skills with specific attention to detail

  • Ability to work with a sense of urgency and meet deadlines

  • Ability to continue education as necessary

  • Ability to operate the following special equipment; machinery, and/or special tools: hand truck, hand and power pallet jack, power lift equipment

  • Must have a valid drivers license

How this job compares

Set against the 6,656 open Maintenance Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • US median$58–81K/yr321 salary ranges
  • Arizona median$28–35/hr68 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 166 open Maintenance Technician jobs in Arizona and 6,656 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Arizona
Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Maintenance Technician postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (3,805 postings).
Education
25 of the 6,656 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 6, 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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