What are the responsibilities and job description for the Maintenance Manager position at Oats Overnight?
A Little About Us
Oats Overnight is on a mission to build a generational CPG brand. Since 2016, our high-protein, drinkable oatmeal has reached over a million customers through direct-to-consumer, and we’re now scaling with all major nationwide retail and club partners. Our goal: become a household brand by leveraging speed, storytelling, and strategy.
We are vertically integrated: we develop, manufacture, and fulfill everything in-house. This operational control allows us to engage customers directly into the R&D process, an
initiative where we were first-to-market in CPG. It also makes our brand tangible and real: our factory, our team, and our product pipeline are all part of the narrative.
This is an exciting stage—we are emerging as a significant omni-channel brand and launching new products to capture significant market share across verticals. We want you to help us get there.
Every teammate here has equity because we’re building something big, and everyone plays an important role. If you’re excited about building a brand that does things differently, this is that opportunity.
We are not accepting candidates from third-party recruiters or agencies for this role — direct applicants only.
What’s The Job?
The Maintenance Manager is responsible for ensuring that the facilities, layout and machinery used to produce new and existing materials and goods run to their maximum efficiency and output. This includes total preventative maintenance, managing breakdowns of mechanical, electrical and robotic equipment (including software programming).
What We’re Looking For
We value people who roll up their sleeves and support their fellow team members. We embrace diversity and encourage equal opportunity every chance we get, and we look forward to learning from people whose backgrounds, skills, and perspectives challenge and enrich our own.
Oats Overnight provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Oats Overnight complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.
Oats Overnight is on a mission to build a generational CPG brand. Since 2016, our high-protein, drinkable oatmeal has reached over a million customers through direct-to-consumer, and we’re now scaling with all major nationwide retail and club partners. Our goal: become a household brand by leveraging speed, storytelling, and strategy.
We are vertically integrated: we develop, manufacture, and fulfill everything in-house. This operational control allows us to engage customers directly into the R&D process, an
initiative where we were first-to-market in CPG. It also makes our brand tangible and real: our factory, our team, and our product pipeline are all part of the narrative.
This is an exciting stage—we are emerging as a significant omni-channel brand and launching new products to capture significant market share across verticals. We want you to help us get there.
Every teammate here has equity because we’re building something big, and everyone plays an important role. If you’re excited about building a brand that does things differently, this is that opportunity.
We are not accepting candidates from third-party recruiters or agencies for this role — direct applicants only.
What’s The Job?
The Maintenance Manager is responsible for ensuring that the facilities, layout and machinery used to produce new and existing materials and goods run to their maximum efficiency and output. This includes total preventative maintenance, managing breakdowns of mechanical, electrical and robotic equipment (including software programming).
What We’re Looking For
- Someone that can partner and influence at all different levels
- Not afraid to get out into a manufacturing operations environment to work shoulder-to-shoulder with plant leadership to resolve problems and challenges.
- Ability to handle multiple priorities and navigate in a fast moving environment
- Expectations will be clearly set, but an ambitious approach to the work is key
- Ability to artfully convey even subtle or complex messages clearly, as appropriate for the topic and audience.
- A relentless drive to get things done.
- Curious and entrepreneurial mindset.
- Enjoys working in a highly collaborative and supportive team environment
- Flexible, willing, and quick to learn new processes, new technology, and new ways of thinking.
- Supervising and leading all maintenance processes and operations
- Managing maintenance personnel by setting direction and priorities
- Tracking expenses and overseeing the budget for maintenance
- Maintaining all machinery to ensure it's at working standards
- Creating, implementing and maintaining maintenance department procedures
- Conducting regular inspections of the facilities to detect and resolve problems
- Planning and managing all repair and installation activities
- Ensuring all department workers adhere to the safety policies and procedures
- Assigning repair schedules and evaluating repair cost estimates
- Documenting and preparing daily progress reports and maintenance logs
- Overseeing equipment stock and placing orders for new supplies when necessary
- Managing, maintaining, and establishing maintenance procedures for production lines in a food manufacturing environment to ensure production meets or performs better than forecast
- Developing and maintaining quality standards
- Developing and maintaining team safety standards
- Participating in designing and developing future production capacities by attending design meetings; coordinating with Research & Development regarding product changes and improvements; and updating maintenance operating procedures and schedules to incorporate the changes
- Developing team and supervisor skills by conducting training meetings; one on one development sessions; outside technical skills training; and establishing and monitoring performance reviews
- Other duties as assigned
- Experience and desire to support a culture built on collaboration, sharing of ideas and celebration of successes as well as drive for positive outcomes with cross-functional teams.
- High school diploma or equivalent qualification.
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, facility management, or a similar field is plus
- A minimum of 5 years experience in maintenance.
- At least 2-3 years previous managerial experience.
- Good understanding of the technical features of plumbing, carpentry, and electrical systems.
- Strong knowledge facilities machines and equipment.
- Excellent organizational and leadership abilities.
- Excellent communication, coaching and interpersonal skills
- Detail oriented and organized
- Proficient computer skills in spreadsheets; databases and word processing
- Self motivated, results orientated and excellent personal skills
- Strong knowledge in Maintenance and Reliability
- Strong background in HAACP; safety; GMP
- Must have a hands-on work ethic
- Bilingual preferred
- Experience and desire to support a culture built on collaboration, sharing of ideas and celebration of successes as well as drive for positive outcomes with cross-functional teams.
- This is going to be fun.
- You have the freedom to leverage your own creativity and have a voice.
- Casual, friendly culture. We’re serious about what we do but we don’t take ourselves too seriously.
- We are a fast-growing company, and you will have stock options.
- High growth potential with opportunities to expand
- Free oatmeal. It’s very good.
- It’s not a cushy job, the bar is high
- We are growing quickly, and have a fast-paced work environment.
- Consistently walking and standing in production and warehouse environments
- Regular periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Must be able to lift and carry up to 50 pounds at times.
- Must be able to work near food ingredients, exposure to food allergens
- Location: inside an air-conditioned manufacturing and warehouse environment
- You must be able to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA, FMLA, and other federal, state, and local standards
- You must be able to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA, and other federal, state, and local standards
- Full Benefits; Medical, Dental, Vision and Life
- 4 weeks of PTO
- Monday - Friday Schedule
- Weekly Pay
- Stock options, every employee is an owner
- Free, delicious oatmeal
We value people who roll up their sleeves and support their fellow team members. We embrace diversity and encourage equal opportunity every chance we get, and we look forward to learning from people whose backgrounds, skills, and perspectives challenge and enrich our own.
Oats Overnight provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Oats Overnight complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.