Responsible for providing repairs and maintenance for WFM stores and facilities. Responsibilities include performing, facilitating, or contracting for repairs and maintenance, ensuring warranty application, ensuring and monitoring environment, health, and safety compliance, energy usage and efficiency, and other routine and ad-hoc functions. Organizes vendor and contractor site visits for routine maintenance and repairs.

Responsibilities:

• Identifies current and future maintenance requirements for new and existing stores.
• Develops RFPs and negotiates service contracts.
• Approves service invoices to ensure consistent invoicing and warranty utilization.
• Ensures EPA, code, and Green Mission compliance.
• Partners with appropriate teams to champion energy awareness to the Team Member level.
• Conducts energy and related walkthroughs and audits.
• Supports Green Mission programs for optimal waste management and recycling.
• Partners with construction and store operations on capital upgrades and remodels.
• Communicates with stores to manage service provider performance.
• Maintains service repair binder and approved service provider lists.
• Maintains and evolves preventive maintenance timelines and associated service forms.

Skills:

• Familiar with store filtering, planning, operations, and merchandising.
• Experience managing construction, equipment, energy, and capital projects.
• Good knowledge of facilities management, planning, and inspection processes and methodologies.
• Understands food store operations.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, Access, web-based, and custom applications.
• Performs tasks in a thorough, accurate, and timely manner.
• Responds quickly and effectively to routine and exceptional situations.
• Builds a solid rapport and earns trust of work colleagues.
• Works collaboratively in a team-oriented environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Effectively presents information and responds to questions in one-on-one and group meetings involving Team Members, Team Leaders, Regional Leadership, National / Global leadership, vendors, and service providers.
• Applies basic research, information gathering, and analytical skills to:
  • Select the appropriate alternatives from defined options,
  • Collect required information,
  • Assess accuracy of detailed information.

• Handles detailed, structured problems; identifying roadblocks to task completion.
• Develops solutions to process and system problems; recognizes and acts on inconsistencies in data and information.
• Understands the company, organization, and/or project strategy, goals, and objectives.
• Able to identify alignment / misalignment of the team’s project goals with larger organizational strategy, goals, and objectives.
• Understands the WFM product mix, supply base, and retail operations.

Education & Experience:

• BA/BS degree and 2-4 years’ relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

At Whole Foods Market, we provide a fair and equal employment opportunity for all Team Members and candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, marital status, disability, or any other legally protected characteristic. Whole Foods Market hires and promotes individuals solely based on qualifications for the position to be filled and business needs.