BENTONVILLE, ARK. — As labor shortages intensify across the skilled trades, Walmart is expanding internal training efforts to build a pipeline of maintenance technicians critical to keeping its vast retail and distribution network operating.
The program launched in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and has since expanded to Vincennes and Jacksonville, Fla.
Walmart’s initiative focuses on tuition-free training for existing employees, combining classroom instruction with hands-on experience in fields such as heating, ventilation and air conditioning, electrical systems and equipment repair…