Director of Facilities

Uncle Giuseppe's Marketplace

Melville, NY (on site; in our stores on Long Island, in Westchester and New Jersey every week; Pennsylvania monthly)

Full-time / $150,000 to $200,000 a year, plus annual bonus

About Uncle Giuseppe's

Uncle Giuseppe's Marketplace is a family-owned specialty grocer with 13 stores on Long Island, in Westchester and in New Jersey. Every store has a full production kitchen, a bakery, in-store mozzarella and more than twenty fresh departments. We open three more stores in the next twelve months, including our first in Pennsylvania, and we are building a central production and distribution facility. We design and build our own stores, and we keep growing.

The role

You will own two things: how we build new stores and how we keep the ones we have running. You will succeed our Director of New Stores, working alongside him through 2027 on two store openings before the program is yours. From day one you will run facilities for every open store, including the preventive-maintenance program we have just launched. You report to the President. You will spend your weeks in stores and on job sites, not behind a desk.

What you will own

• New store construction from site due diligence to opening day: architects, engineers, the general contractor, fixtures, refrigeration, permits and inspections in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The schedule and the budget for each multi-million-dollar project. Opening dates are commitments.
• Remodels, case moves and capital projects in operating stores, and the build-out of our central facility.
• Repairs and maintenance for 13 to 16 stores across roughly 8,000 registered assets.
• The preventive-maintenance program: compliance PMs scheduled as work orders, contractor programs for refrigeration, HVAC, cooking equipment and drains, and an in-house technician route that grows to 30 percent of work orders.
• The maintenance system of record (EcoTrak): a complete asset register, every ticket on a real asset, spending controls, accrual with Finance.
• Vendor contracts: rebidding our largest service vendors, setting response standards, taking the emergency premium out of our spend.
• Repair-or-replace decisions, with the capital case written.
• A small team today (construction project manager, facilities analyst, dispatcher, two technicians) that you will build.
• A fleet of refrigerated trailers and catering vehicles.

Who you are

• Ten or more years in construction and facilities for multi-unit food retail, restaurants, hospitality or grocery, at least five of them leading both at the director level or equivalent.
• You have opened stores, restaurants or hotels from the ground up as the owner's representative, on a published date.
• You have run multi-site maintenance on a CMMS with a preventive-maintenance program you built or rebuilt, and you can read a work-order history and say which assets to replace.
• You know commercial kitchen and refrigeration equipment well enough to argue with a refrigeration contractor and win.
• You negotiate construction and service contracts and read pay applications and change orders critically.
• You have built a team and made the hard calls on it.
• You live within reach of Melville, NY and will be in the stores every week.

A strong plus: grocery or supermarket experience; owner-operator environments; permitting experience in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Benefits and Perks

We recognize that our continued success begins with talented and dedicated team members. We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Paid time off
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Life insurance
• Pet insurance
• Incentive bonus opportunity of up to 15%
• 50% discount on lunch
• 25% discount on in-store purchases
• Additional employee benefits and perks

At Uncle Giuseppe’s Marketplace, we believe in recognizing hard work, developing talent, and promoting from within. This leadership opportunity offers the chance to shape a growing department, guide new store development, and make a lasting impact on our company’s continued expansion.