San Bernardino Valley College recently hosted a Walmart Automated Consolidation Center hiring event, looking to fill two positions for the company. These included a Multi-Skilled Technician and a Maintenance Technician for Walmart's new automated distribution center in Colton, Calif.
The partnership with SBVC resulted in successful promotion of the event, where 28 individuals attended and tested for the maintenance tech positions. Of these, eight candidates passed the test and four were given job offers, which consisted of two offers for Maintenance Technician and two for Multi-Skilled Technician.
In addition, 34 others attended the job fair and were interested in non-technician positions such as Freight Handler, Yard Driver and Asset Protection.
Walmart opened the 340,000-square-foot consolidation center in Colton in July. The facility will initially employ 150 workers, the retailer said, but that it is expected to exceed 600 by 2021.