Facilities Maintenance Supervisor

JOB DESCRIPTION                                                                       

Job Title:                    Facilities Maintenance Supervisor

Department:              Facilities Maintenance 

Reports to:                 General Manager

FLSA Status:              Non-Exempt

Revision:                     2025

JOB SUMMARY: Maintains and makes repairs to structures on the farm, including greenhouses, warehouses, irrigation systems/structures, and drainage installations.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Works on making repairs to various structures located on the facility.
• Maintain and repair buildings, greenhouse structures, mechanical equipment, machinery, and facility grounds 
• Evaluating problematic systems or facilities and determining what installation or repair services need to be performed 
• Communicating with vendors to procure parts and/or services needed 
• Organizing workflow and ensuring that employees understand their duties or delegated tasks. Monitoring employee productivity and providing constructive feedback and coaching 
• Performs physical labor for excavation and shoveling.
• Loads and unloads trucks of building materials as required.
• Operates machinery used for maintenance work when required.
• Aligns and seals various structural components.
• Climbs onto various structures like greenhouses and warehouses for repair and maintenance, which may require special training and working at heights up to 20 feet.
• Services and repairs nursery vehicles, both gas and electric.
• Trains employees to properly inspect and maintain equipment, including forklift certification, how to use equipment and tools properly along with fall protection. 
• Maintain all safety standards. 
• Maintains inventory of replacement parts, oil, fuel, and tires.
• Installs, diagnoses, and repairs electrical issues within equipment, greenhouse controls, and traditional electrical circuits.
• Assures compliance with state and federal laws regarding hazardous materials.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications: 

• Must have a valid driver’s license.
• Must be bilingual in English and Spanish.
• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. 
• The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. 
• Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:

Must have at least 3 years of experience in Maintenance and similar roles. 

Supervisory Responsibilities:

At least 2 years of supervisory experience leading teams to accomplish the roles and responsibilities. 

Language Skills: 

Excellent verbal and written communication in English and Spanish required. 

The ability to read a limited number of two- and three-syllable words and to recognize similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers. 

Ability to print and speak simple sentences.

Mathematical Skills: 

Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's. 

Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance1.

Reasoning Ability: 

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out simple one- or two-step instructions. Ability to deal with standardized situations with only occasional or no variables.

Physical Demands: 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is required to walk. The employee is frequently required to sit and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 45 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Some employees will also be required to climb onto various structures like greenhouses and warehouses for the purposes of repair and maintenance. This will require special training and individuals who are not afraid to work at heights that occasionally go as high as 20 feet.

Work Environment: 

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions1.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and outside weather conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, extreme cold and extreme heat. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Altman Specialty Plants, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.