Facility Manager

At Amped, we are changing the way food businesses scale. We are that missing step between hourly shared kitchens and your own dedicated production facility. Amped provides dedicated food production spaces and support services to allow brands to scale while minimizing financial and quality risk.

With three properties in L.A. and Chicago and nearly 200 unique production spaces, we make it easy for our tenants to focus on their passion, while we take care of the rest.

The Role

The Facilities Manager is responsible for ensuring the Amped Kitchen Los Angeles facilities are maintained to the high standards required by Amped tenants and regulatory agencies. You will manage the 4-5 person team responsible for sanitation, maintenance, and shipping/receiving, and will support tenants in facility improvement projects.

The ideal candidate is highly organized and self-motivated with building engineering experience. A person who enjoys developing strong relationships with contractors, vendors, clients, and internal teams will excel in this role.

Specific Accountabilities:

• Maintenance: Oversight of (and where relevant, direct responsibility for) basic plumbing, HVAC and electrical work ensuring urgent facility and equipment issues are addressed and, when necessary, escalated.
• Construction Management: Help scope tenant improvement upgrades, request bids, and coordinate/oversee contractors for all major construction work.
• Dispatch Tenant Support: Monitor internal ticketing system and dispatch team members based on issue severity and standard response times. Close out tickets and follow up with tenants to confirm issue resolution.
• Facility Cleanliness: Oversee sanitation of common areas including dishrooms, hallways, storage areas and docks.
• Receiving, Shipping, and Warehouse Management: Ensure accurate and food safe handling and storage of tenant materials, and capture relevant information for tenant bill backs.
• Tenant Training: Onboard tenants into Amped system, and provide ongoing coaching to ensure tenant compliance with facility cleanliness, safety, and operational processes.
• Personnel Management: Ensure daily maintenance/sanitation/dock checklists are completed, manage scheduling, enforce compliance with HR policies, and provide performance feedback.

Qualifications

• 5 years of facilities and/or building engineering experience, including oversight of construction projects
• Proficient at understanding operating and capital budgets and working with a budget
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Proficiency in Work order systems (experience with AppFolio a plus) and Microsoft software
• Experience in reading and understanding plans and specifications
• Spanish proficiency is a plus
• ServSafe manager certification for food handling required prior to start.

Compensation

$73,000-$82,000

How To Apply

Ready for the challenge? Send us your resume and responses to these three screening questions:

• How has your career prepared you for this role?
• What attracted you to this opportunity?
• Why is this the right time for you to join a new company?

At Amped, we're changing the way food businesses scale. If you're as passionate about that as we are, we'd love to hear from you.