Senior Maintenance Mechanic

Company:
Northeast Alternatives

Location:

310 Kenneth Welch Drive, Lakeville, MA 02347

Northeast Alternatives is a growing, award-winning, seed-to-table cannabis retail brand specializing in the highest quality cannabis products Massachusetts, Michigan and New Jersey has to offer. Constantly focused on developing and ingenuity, NEA strives to achieve this by adding skilled and motivated team players. These goals are met by seeking out diverse, talented individuals to further the company's mission and provide unique and new ideas.

As the business continues to grow, our team will continue to grow, allowing us to be the best in our specialized market. If you are motivated, eager to learn, dedicated, flexible and excited about joining an incredible industry, Northeast Alternatives is the perfect place to be!

Primary

Work Location:

310 Kenneth Welch Drive, Lakeville, MA — sole on-site presence, with occasional travel to other facilities

Shift:Monday-Friday, 7:00am-3:30pm. Primary on-call escalation.

Purpose of the Role:

The Senior Maintenance Mechanic is the technical authority for NEA’s Massachusetts facilities and owns the equipment that Lakeville’s production depends on: roughly 1,500 tons of centrifugal chiller capacity, some thirty air handlers across fourteen bloom rooms and the veg and propagation suites, a 29,000 GPD reverse-osmosis water plant, and the environmental controls that hold a nine-week flower cycle inside a narrow temperature and humidity band.

When a chiller alarms at two in the morning, when a dehumidifier drops a flower room out of spec, or when a control system stops communicating, this is the person who resolves it. In a cultivation facility environmental control is not a comfort question — it is a crop question, and this role owns it.

The role also builds and runs the preventive maintenance program and the work-order system that keep those failures from occurring, and mentors the Mechanics and Technicians coming up behind it.

Responsibilities:

Central plant and environmental systems

• Own the chiller plant — two 600-ton York centrifugal units and one 300-ton Trane — including oil analysis, vibration monitoring, eddy‑current tube testing intervals and vendor coordination
• Own air handling across all bloom, veg and propagation rooms, and the dehumidification and CO2 systems
• Own the reverse‑osmosis and RODI water plant, storage, fertigation supply and process pumps
• Troubleshoot environmental control and building management systems to the point of resolution, not escalation

Technical authority

• Serve as the escalation point for the Maintenance Mechanic and Facilities Technicians on any system fault
• Cover 999 William S. Canning Blvd for all work beyond the Senior Facilities Technician’s scope — MIP kitchen refrigeration, the 30‑ton unit, cure room, three‑phase and control‑system faults — travelling from Lakeville. Budget roughly six to eight hours a week for this, and reduce it over time by funding the site technician’s EPA 608.
• Determine when work stays in house and when a licensed contractor is required; scope the work, compare quotes, and verify workmanship before sign‑off
• Own lockout/tagout and energized‑work safety standards for the department
• Advise the Director on capital repair versus replacement, with supporting failure history

Preventive maintenance program

• Migrate NEA’s existing harvest‑synchronized preventive maintenance schedule onto the work‑order platform and own it thereafter — a defined deliverable of the first ninety days
• Build the asset registry from scratch — every chiller, air handler, pump and dehumidifier as a discrete record with service history — and turn on labor hours booked by asset, location and function
• Report preventive versus reactive work ratio, PM completion rate and repeat‑failure analysis to the Director monthly
• Maintain the equipment records and service history that support both compliance inspection and insurance underwriting

Compliance and development

• Maintain full CCC and OSHA compliance and document compliance‑relevant repairs
• Mentor Mechanics and Technicians, and validate their readiness against the published progression criteria
• Serve as…