Commercial Kitchen Maintenance Manager

About Us

At Fresh Direct, we are reinventing the grocery experience.

Since day one, our mission has been simple: bring the best, freshest food directly from the farm to people’s homes — faster, fresher, and smarter than anyone else.

We’re not just a food company. We’re a technology-powered, customer-obsessed team building one of the most innovative end‑to‑end food supply chains in the industry. From proprietary routing systems to our state‑of‑the‑art fulfillment center, every part of our business is designed to deliver unmatched quality, convenience, and care.

We partner directly with farmers, fishermen, and artisans to source the highest quality ingredients — then use smart data, automation, and logistics to deliver them at peak freshness.

It’s grocery shopping reimagined — and we’re just getting started.

If you’re passionate about innovation, care deeply about what people eat, and want to help build the future of food, we’d love to meet you.

The Commercial Kitchen Maintenance Manager leads the reliability and upkeep of the manufacturing, refrigeration, and facility equipment that powers our food‑production operation, and oversees, leads, and develops our team of Manufacturing and HVAC Technicians. The manager drives preventative‑maintenance (PM) completion and reduces equipment breakdowns across our commercial kitchen, bakery, and R&D production lines, owns all regulatory upkeep and scheduled maintenance to keep us compliant, and assists in overseeing third‑party vendor contracts.

• Assigning tasks to technicians, following up on completions, and coaching and developing the team.
• Maintain, update, and drive on‑time completion of preventative maintenance (PM) schedules for industrial kitchen equipment (i.e. commercial ovens, steam kettles, braising pans, fryers, rotisseries, deli slicers, band saws, meat grinders, mixers, commercial dishwashers, condensing units, blast chillers, ice machines, walk‑in packages) and HVAC system.
• Monitor equipment reliability and reduce unplanned breakdowns and repeat failures on critical assets.
• Work with other departments to plan maintenance projects.
• Budgeting of maintenance for money spent on parts, labor, and services.
• Labor scheduling and planning.
• Working with external contractors.
• Performing root cause analysis.

Required
: proven, expert‑level experience maintaining commercial and industrial kitchen equipment, including but not limited to:

• Commercial ovens (combi, rack, and deck)
• Steam kettles and braising pans
• Fryers and rotisseries
• Deli slicers and band saws
• Meat grinders and mixers
• Commercial dishwashers
• Refrigeration and cold‑chain systems (condensing units, blast chillers, ice machines, walk‑in packages)

Preferred
: experience with general facility maintenance:

• High Pressure Steam Boilers
• HVAC (rooftop units, makeup air units, heat pumps, VRF, exhaust fans)
• Air compressor systems.

• Proficient in outlook, excel, Building Management Systems, and Service Desk.
• Refrigeration License (preferred not required).
• Holder of Certificate of fitness (preferred)
• Professionalism when dealing with technicians, vendors, and employees.
• Demonstrate ownership, biased for action and leadership skills.
• Attention to Detail.
• Must embody and demonstrate company values and culture.

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do. We listen, innovate, and act quickly to exceed expectations with every order and interaction.

Everyone contributes & every role matters. We break silos, lift each other up, and share a relentless focus on delivering results. That way, we win together.

We take pride in the quality of our food, service, and the…