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Building Maintenance Mechanic at Vons in Brea, CA
Job Description
Building Maintenance Mechanic
Location: Brea, CA, United States
Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Join us for an exciting opportunity at Albertsons Companies, where innovation and customer service go hand-in-hand!
At Albertsons Companies, we are looking for someone who’s not just seeking a job, but someone who wants to make an impact. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to lead, innovate, and contribute to the growth of a company that values great service and lasting customer relationships. This position offers the chance to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment that’s constantly evolving.
Bring your flavor
Building the future of food and well-being starts with you. Join our team and bring your best self to the table.
What you will be doing
Albertsons Companies is seeking a skilled Building Maintenance Mechanic to support our highly automated distribution center operations. This role is responsible for maintaining, troubleshooting, repairing, and improving conveyor systems, automation equipment, facility infrastructure, and material handling systems that are critical to daily warehouse operations. The successful candidate will help maximize equipment uptime, support operational efficiency, and ensure a safe working environment throughout the facility.
This position offers the opportunity to work with advanced distribution center technologies, including Dematic automation systems, conveyor networks, electrical controls, PLC-driven equipment, and facility support systems. The ideal candidate is a hands-on maintenance professional with strong mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and automation troubleshooting experience who thrives in a fast-paced industrial environment.
The position will be based in Brea, CA.
MUST be willing to work overnight.
Main responsibilities:
- Perform preventive maintenance, inspections, troubleshooting, and repairs on conveyor systems, automated material handling equipment, and facility infrastructure.
- Troubleshoot and repair Dematic automation systems, sortation equipment, motors, drives, sensors, scanners, and controls systems.
- Diagnose and repair electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and electronic control system failures.
- Troubleshoot PLC-controlled equipment, relay logic, HMI interfaces, VFDs, and warehouse automation systems.
- Perform daily inspections of dock equipment, doors, dock plates, racking, refrigeration systems, battery charging equipment, and facility support systems.
- Complete major equipment overhauls, modifications, system upgrades, and component replacements as necessary.
- Fabricate, install, adjust, and repair equipment and facility components to improve reliability and operational performance.
- Maintain accurate repair records, preventive maintenance documentation, and work orders using maintenance management systems.
- Support HVAC, refrigeration, electrical, plumbing, carpentry, and general building maintenance functions.
- Follow all safety policies and procedures while promoting a safe work environment for all associates.
We are looking for candidates who possess the following:
- Minimum two years of industrial maintenance experience in a distribution, manufacturing, automated warehouse, or material handling environment.
- Hands-on experience maintaining and troubleshooting Dematic automation systems, conveyor systems, sortation equipment, and warehouse automation technologies.
- Strong knowledge of industrial electrical systems, including three-phase motor controls, PLCs, VFDs, sensors, relays, and control circuits.
- Experience troubleshooting mechanical power transmission systems, including chains, belts, gearboxes, bearings, rollers, and motor-driven equipment.
- Working knowledge of hydraulic and pneumatic systems.
- Ability to read and interpret electrical schematics, wiring diagrams, technical manuals, blueprints, and mechanical drawings.
- Experience performing root cause analysis and implementing corrective actions to prevent recurring equipment failures.
- Working knowledge of HVAC systems, refrigeration systems, building maintenance, and industrial facility support equipment.
- Ability to operate maintenance-related power equipment, hand tools, diagnostic equipment, forklifts, and pallet jacks.
- Must provide own hand tools, meters, and locked toolbox.
- Ability to lift up to 75 pounds and work at varying heights, around moving equipment, and in temperature-controlled warehouse environments.
- Must be willing to work any shift, including nights, weekends, holidays, overtime, and on-call assignments as business needs require.
Preferred Qualifications
- Direct experience supporting Dematic WCS/WES systems.
- Experience with Siemens or Allen-Bradley PLC troubleshooting.
- Experience with automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS), robotics, and high-speed sortation equipment.
- Experience supporting refrigeration systems, including ammonia refrigeration environments.
- Technical certification, trade school education, or equivalent maintenance training.
- Experience in a large-scale grocery, retail, manufacturing, or distribution center operation.
We also provide a variety of benefits including:
- Competitive wages paid weekly
- Associate discounts
- Health and financial well-being benefits for eligible associates (Medical, Dental, 401k and more!)
- Time off (vacation, holidays, sick pay). For eligibility requirements please visit myACI Benefits
- Leaders invested in your training, career growth and development
- An inclusive work environment with talented colleagues who reflect the communities we serve
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Albertsons Companies is at the forefront of the revolution in retail. Committed to innovation and fostering a culture of belonging, our team is united with a unique purpose: to bring people together around the joys of food and to inspire well-being. We want talented individuals to be part of this journey!
Locally great and nationally strong, Albertsons Companies (NYSE: ACI) is a leading food and drug retailer in the U.S. We operate over 2,200 stores, 1,732 pharmacies, 405 fuel centers, 22 distribution facilities, and 19 manufacturing plants across 34 states and the District of Columbia. Our well-known banners include Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, ACME, Shaw’s, Tom Thumb, United Supermarkets, United Express, Randalls, Albertson’s Market, Pavilions, Star Markets, Market Street, Carrs, Haggen, Lucky, Amigos, Andronico’s Community Markets, King’s, Balducci’s, and Albertson’s Market Street.
Our vision is to be a retail leader admired for national strength with deep local roots, offering an easy, fun, friendly, and inspiring experience, no matter how customers choose to shop with us. We celebrate the rich diversity of the communities we serve, and strive to create a workplace where everyone has equal access to opportunities and resources, and can fully contribute to their and our company’s success.
Bring your flavor
Building the future of food and well-being starts with you. Join our team and bring your best self to the table.
Disclaimer
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of work performed by the employees assigned to this job and are not the official job description for the position. All employees must comply with Company, Division, and Store policies and applicable laws. The responsibilities, duties, and skills of personnel may vary within store and/or from store to store and the official job description will be provided during the application process.
Albertsons is an Equal Opportunity Employer
This Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, or on any other basis prohibited by law. Consistent with applicable state and local law, the Company will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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