Facilities Manager

Manage maintenance, repairs, and upgrades to our building and its fixtures.

Company Overview

Ancient Crunch Inc. is the fastest-growing healthy snack brand in the US. MASA Chips, our top product is the no.1 selling tortilla chip in popular stores like Erewhon. We use only real ingredients like beef tallow—no seed oils or artificial flavors or ingredients—and manufacture everything ourselves in Lebanon, NJ.

Job Description

We are seeking a full-time, on-site Facilities Manager to join our team. The Facilities Manager will be responsible for overseeing the upkeep and efficient operation of the building, the property, and all permanent systems within it (e.g. HVAC, electrical, plumbing, etc.) by trouble shooting issues, coordinating contractors, and ensuring compliance with safety and regulatory standards.

Your Responsibilities

Specifically, you will do…

• Scheduled Maintenance and Cleaning:
• Goal: Ensure all building equipment and systems (HVAC, plumbing, electrical, fire safety systems, gas, sewage, bathrooms, garbage etc.) are maintained in peak condition.
• Action: Create and manage scheduled maintenance and cleaning plan, and coordinate with contractors and custodial to ensure scheduled maintenance tasks are completed on time and within budget.
• Troubleshooting and Repairs:
• Goal: Ensure facilities breakdowns minimally impact production
• Action: Respond quickly to resolve any facilities breakdowns, fixing it yourself and/or coordinated the proper contractors, ensuring that repairs are conducted in a timely, cost-effective manner.
• Planning and Improvements:
• Goal: Make sure that the building is ready for new equipment
• Action: Work with production engineering on projects to improve or upgrade facilities (mostly relating to the installation of new equipment). Incorporate modifications to scheduled maintenance planning.
• Compliance and Regulations:
• Goal: Ensure the facility complies with all relevant local, state, and federal regulations, including OSHA standards and zoning requirements.
• Action: Stay up to date on industry standards and best practices for facility management. Maintain positive relationships with local, state, federal regulators as required.
• Contractor Management:
• Goal: Make sure we have the best people to perform maintenance and repairs.
• Action: Find and manage reliable and responsive contractors to handle specialized tasks. Ensure contractors are qualified, efficient, and negotiate with them to ensure we are getting good value for their cost. ****
• Building Care:
• Goal: Oversee all aspects of the building’s care, including HVAC systems, plumbing, electrical systems, fire alarms, security systems, refrigeration, and more.
• Action: Make sure that employees are not treating the building poorly or damaging it. Make sure protocols are put in place, and speak to production managers if there are issues
• On-call Availability:
• Goal: Issues are responded to and addressed quickly, without impact to production or the need for management escalation
• Action: Be available for urgent facility-related issues outside of regular business hours. Ensure that systems and people are in place for rapid response and resolution, so you ideally don’t have to personally deal with it. But the buck stops with you when it comes to the building

Areas under your control

For the avoidance of doubt the areas that fall under your purview, but are not limited to:

• HVAC (heat/cooling, plus kitchen hood operation, exhaust system, and scheduled maintenance and cleaning)
• Fire suppression (alarm system, sprinklers, extinguishers, Ansul system)
• Refrigerators/freezers (external and internal)
• Plumbing (gas, water, drains, grease traps, cooking oil collection, sewage, etc)
• Appliances and fixtures (sinks, toilets, hoods, etc.)
• Outdoors (parking lot, sidewalks, snow removal, landscaping, lighting)
• Pest control (indoor and outdoors)
• Electrical (low voltage and high voltage)
• Building structure (ceilings, walls, doors, floors)
• Loading bays and docks
• Security system and access control
• Custodial (you manage the custodian)
• Regulatory (code officials, zoning, fire marshal, etc.)
• Waste management
• Production employee uniforms and PPE
• Custodial (cleaning of everything outside of production equipment, e.g. bathrooms, loading dock, etc.)

Note this does not include our installed equipment, e.g. fryers, packaging machines, etc.

Growth Opportunities

• With demonstrated success in maintaining existing facility systems, there is room to supervise a team of people as the facilities footprint gets bigger (potentially including multiple locations)

What We Offer

• Above-market base compensation
• Performance Bonus
• Stock Options
• Health insurance
• A health and wellness-focused culture
• All the chips you can eat!

Qualifications

• English required; Bi-lingual or willingness to learn Spanish preferred
• Live within 35 minutes of Lebanon, NJ
• Same or openness to relocating for Easton, PA move in Q3
• 5-10 years of experience in facility management or a related trade (e.g. HVAC, plumbing, etc.)
• Trade school or engineering degree preferred
• Strong hands on experience with and understanding of building systems (construction techniques and materials, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, fire safety, etc.)
• Ability to communicate to and maintain positive relationships with external contractors (HVAC, plumbing, electrician etc.)
• People Management skills. Comfortable delegating tasks and mentoring a team
• Understand that you will set an example for everyone below you
• Ability to identify areas for improvement and proactively address them
• Comfortable working in a high growth environment where rapid change is typical
• High degree of attention to detail, ensuring nothing falls through the cracks
• Comfortable using computers and software tools like:
• Email
• Excel/Google Sheets
• Contractor management tools
• Bonus: Interest in health, wellness, fitness, or food
• Bonus: works on handyman projects around the house; goes to Home Depot most weekends

Job Type: Full-time

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person