Facilities Manager

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

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 Hackettstown, NJ.

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.

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 impactto 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

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…