VP of Industrial Operations F/M

Bread Alone•Town of Ulster, NY

49d

About The Position

The VP of Industrial Operations will own the reliability, condition, safety, and readiness of equipment, facilities, and infrastructure across bakeries, cafés, offices, and warehouses. This role is responsible for building and leading an Industrial Operations organization that supports current operations and future growth, establishing clear roles, decision rights, and accountability across Maintenance, Facilities, and Sanitation. The VP will also lead technical response to failures and interruptions, coordinate major maintenance windows, and partner with Production, Hospitality, and Food Safety to anticipate needs. Additionally, this role will oversee sanitation programs, capital projects, and asset planning, ensuring all operations align with the company's environmental commitments and financial goals.

Requirements

Experience in industrial operations, maintenance, facilities management, and sanitation.
Proven ability to build and lead an organization.
Experience establishing clear roles, decision rights, and accountability.
Skills in assessing capability and coverage gaps, developing staffing plans, and recruiting/developing/retaining expertise.
Experience building leadership depth and distributing technical knowledge.
Ability to determine internal vs. external sourcing strategies.
Experience building systems, documentation, and vendor relationships.
Experience leading and developing maintenance and facilities teams.
Experience building preventive and predictive maintenance programs supported by CMMS.
Experience owning equipment reliability scorecards.
Skills in driving root-cause analysis and corrective action.
Experience ensuring critical equipment support (spare parts, documentation, expertise).
Experience maintaining critical building systems (electrical, plumbing, HVAC, refrigeration, fire/life safety, building envelope).
Experience developing long-term facilities plans.
Experience managing facilities contractors and service providers.
Experience owning utilities and energy infrastructure.
Experience owning company-wide waste and recycling programs.
Experience leading and developing sanitation teams.
Experience establishing sanitation standards, schedules, and accountability.
Experience building and executing preventive-maintenance cleaning programs.
Experience partnering with Food Safety and site leaders.
Experience owning sanitation chemicals, equipment, vendors, training, and safety practices.
Experience ensuring sanitation work is documented, measured, and improved.
Experience partnering with leadership to identify and prioritize investments.
Experience leading capital projects from scoping to handoff.
Experience managing manufacturers, engineers, and contractors.
Experience developing long-term asset plans.
Experience owning Industrial Operations budgets and forecasts.

Nice To Haves

Experience in bakeries, cafés, offices, and warehouses.
Experience with CMMS as a central system.
Experience with Bread Alone's environmental commitments.

Responsibilities

Own reliability, condition, safety, and readiness of equipment, facilities, and infrastructure across bakeries, cafés, offices, and warehouses.
Ensure preventive maintenance schedules for all bakery equipment, building systems, and utilities, balancing internal teams and external partners.
Ensure leadership coverage and escalation paths across all shifts for critical equipment, facility, and sanitation issues.
Establish org-wide workflows for identifying, prioritizing, assigning, escalating, and closing work, with the CMMS as the central system.
Lead technical response to failures and interruptions, and coordinate major maintenance windows, shutdowns, equipment moves, and recommissioning.
Partner with Production, Hospitality, and Food Safety to anticipate needs and maintain clear ownership when problems arise.
Build and lead an Industrial Operations organization that supports current operations and future growth.
Establish clear roles, decision rights, and accountability across Maintenance, Facilities, and Sanitation.
Assess capability and coverage gaps, develop staffing plans, and recruit, develop, and retain the required expertise.
Build leadership depth and distribute technical knowledge, reducing reliance on any single individual.
Determine which capabilities to build internally versus source from specialized partners.
Build systems, documentation, and vendor relationships so the organization doesn't depend on individual memory.
Lead and develop the Senior Maintenance Manager and maintenance team.
Build a disciplined preventive and predictive maintenance program supported by strong CMMS practices and accurate asset history.
Own an equipment reliability scorecard covering PM execution, downtime, recurring failures, and maintenance effectiveness.
Drive root-cause analysis and lasting corrective action rather than repeated short-term fixes.
Ensure critical equipment is supported by spare parts, documentation, and internal and external expertise.
Lead and develop the Facilities Coordinator; set standards for the condition of all properties.
Maintain critical building systems: electrical, plumbing, HVAC, refrigeration, fire/life safety, and building envelope.
Develop a long-term facilities plan identifying major repair and replacement needs before they become emergencies.
Manage the network of facilities contractors and service providers.
Own utilities and energy infrastructure (electrical, gas, water, solar), with visibility into consumption, performance, and improvement opportunities.
Own company-wide waste and recycling programs against Bread Alone's environmental commitments.
Lead and develop the centralized Sanitation team, setting standards, schedules, and accountability across bakery and café locations.
Establish clear ownership between centralized Sanitation and site teams for daily, deep, equipment, and PM cleaning.
Build and execute a preventive-maintenance cleaning program, deploying resources based on operational and equipment needs.
Partner with Food Safety and site leaders to meet food safety standards within production and café realities.
Own sanitation chemicals, equipment, vendors, training, and safety practices.
Ensure sanitation work is documented, measured, and continuously improved.
Partner with the CEO and functional leaders to identify and prioritize equipment, facility, and infrastructure investments.
Lead capital projects from technical scoping and equipment selection through installation, commissioning, and handoff.
Manage manufacturers, engineers, and contractors to deliver safely, on time, and within budget.
Develop a long-term asset plan balancing reliability, operating cost, food safety, environmental performance, and growth.
Own Industrial Operations budgets and forecasts, and partner with Finance on capital priorities.