Facilities Specialist – Field Remote

Job Description:

  • Maintains restaurants through preventative maintenance on all aspects of the restaurant
  • Assists the Facilities Manager by supervising facility aspects of restaurant management at the market level
  • Performs facility maintenance and repair through monthly site visits and analysis of restaurants
  • Formulates preventative maintenance schedules for the safe, efficient, and effective operation of restaurant facilities
  • Carries out set procedures to be followed in the event facilities cease functioning
  • Trains managers, crew, and other restaurant staff on how to manage, maintain, troubleshoot, and repair restaurant facilities
  • Ensures managers, crew, and other restaurant staff are correctly and consistently following facility maintenance practices and procedures
  • Conducts detailed facility maintenance and repair seminars
  • Provides the Operations Team with comprehensive maintenance visit recaps detailing restaurant strengths and areas of opportunity
  • Identifies specific issues contributing to higher M & R costs and communicates these issues
  • Providing guidance to restaurants on how to maintain and update facility records
  • Performs equipment and building repairs on a regular basis
  • Performs new store turnover, 90 day and one-year walks/punches with Contractor and Operations Team for all new restaurants
  • Serves as the facilities representative at operations management meetings

Requirements:

  • Possess a strong trade knowledge of carpentry, plumbing, electrical, commercial cooking equipment, appliance repair and basic HVAC/refrigeration
  • Be knowledgeable of rules and regulations governing facilities safety requirements
  • Demonstrate the ability to manage and coordinate multiple schedules while planning work to facilitate timely achievement of results
  • Effectively, clearly, and patiently communicate and train facility maintenance and repair concepts
  • Have a clean Motor Vehicle Report in order to travel between restaurants
  • Have a B.A./B.S. in related field or an equivalent in education and experience with two (2) years formal or informal training on how to repair and maintain facilities; experience with restaurant equipment, HVAC, electrical, plumbing, refrigeration or appliance repair preferred.

Benefits:

  • medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401k
  • sick leave
  • vacation time
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