Operations and Facilities Maintenance Technician Seattle, WA · · $35 – $40 View role

Vale is a design-led company building a modern matcha company. We blend automation, robotics, and premium food & beverage to create beautifully crafted matcha experiences through fully automated kiosks, cafes, wholesale, and mobile carts. Our mission is simple:
Make Magic
. We combine technology and hospitality to create experiences that feel effortless, intuitive, and memorable.

Vale Concepts is seeking a hands-on Operations & Facilities Maintenance Technician to support the reliability, safety, and continuous improvement of our production facility and matcha bar fleet. This role is responsible for maintaining production equipment, facility systems, matcha bars, and utilities to ensure that operations remain safe, efficient, and dependable.

The ideal candidate is mechanically inclined, proactive, and comfortable troubleshooting equipment and facility issues in a growing manufacturing environment. This person will perform routine maintenance and repairs, coordinate specialized service providers when necessary, recommend equipment and facility improvements, and help develop a formal preventive maintenance program.

This is a flexible, operations-focused role. When maintenance priorities allow, this position will also support production activities, including ingredient handling, equipment operation, packaging, sanitation, and other tasks necessary to meet production schedules and business needs.

• Perform routine inspections, maintenance, troubleshooting, and minor repairs on production and packaging equipment.
• Identify equipment issues and respond promptly to minimize production downtime.
• Support equipment installations, modifications, commissioning, and improvement projects.
• Maintain equipment in accordance with manufacturer recommendations and company safety requirements.
• Coordinate with equipment manufacturers, contractors, and service technicians when specialized support is required.
• Recommend equipment repairs, upgrades, replacements, or modifications that improve safety, reliability, sanitation, or production efficiency.
• Maintain an organized inventory of commonly used tools, spare parts, and maintenance supplies.

• Assist with developing and implementing a preventive maintenance program for production equipment, facility systems, and utilities.
• Create and maintain preventive maintenance schedules, checklists, service records, and equipment histories.
• Ensure scheduled maintenance activities are completed and properly documented.
• Review maintenance trends and recurring equipment failures to identify opportunities for corrective action and long-term improvement.
• Help establish critical spare-parts requirements and recommended replacement intervals.

• Monitor and maintain the general condition of the production facility, including walls, floors, doors, lighting, plumbing, drains, and other building components.
• Monitor facility utilities and support systems, including water, compressed air, HVAC, electrical service, and sanitation infrastructure.
• Perform basic facility repairs within the employee’s training and authorization.
• Coordinate qualified contractors for work requiring specialized licensing or expertise.
• Identify facility deficiencies and recommend improvements that support safety, food production, sanitation, and operational growth.
• Support facility inspections and ensure maintenance-related corrective actions are completed.

• Support production operations as needed based on maintenance workload, staffing levels, and production priorities.
• Assist with weighing and staging ingredients, operating blending and packaging equipment, packaging finished products, and completing production documentation.
• Follow approved batch sheets, standard operating procedures, and quality requirements.
• Perform equipment setup, changeovers, cleaning, sanitation, and line-clearance activities.
• Help maintain an efficient workflow and communicate production issues, equipment concerns, or material shortages to the appropriate team members.
• Remain flexible in daily assignments and assist with other operational…