New Yorkers have been eating Orwashers rye since 1916. As our wholesale business grows, we're investing in our Bronx bakeries and the systems that keep them running. Lead the team, keep equipment reliable, and help make sure the bread New York loves gets baked every day.

Orwashers

Orwashers Bakery (Orwashers.com) is a New York City institution, founded in 1916 in a small storefront on the Upper East Side. Today, Orwashers continues to be known for its New York classics including rye bread, pumpernickel, bagels, rugelach, black and white cookies and so much more.

In addition to selling bread to many of New York’s top restaurants and gourmet grocery stores, Orwashers currently operates three retail bakeries in Manhattan and Long Island. We also deliver our breads and baked goods throughout Manhattan and distribute to carefully selected partners nationwide. While the company has grown since its humble beginnings over a century ago, the same values remain baked in: handmade classic breads and baked goods made fresh, locally, and with love each day.

What You Will Do

As Head of Maintenance, you'll lead a seven-person team supporting two Bronx production bakeries, four retail bakeries, and an offsite frozen-storage location. You'll organize daily priorities, assign work, build a reliable preventive maintenance program, and get hands-on with complex repairs when needed. This role spans bakery production equipment and building systems, from ovens, proofers, and mixers to refrigeration, electrical, HVAC, boilers, burners, and compressed air.

Responsibilities:

Lead and support a seven-person maintenance team, delegating work, coordinating schedules, and helping technicians troubleshoot issues on the floor.
Plan, prioritize, and execute preventive and corrective maintenance across production facilities, retail bakeries, and frozen storage.
Troubleshoot and repair bakery equipment such as ovens, proofers, retarders, mixers, conveyors, slicers, motors, pumps, and controls.
Diagnose mechanical and electrical problems, and support maintenance of refrigeration, freezers, HVAC, gas-fired equipment, boilers, burners, and compressed air systems.
Respond to urgent breakdowns and guide repairs based on safety, production impact, and equipment downtime.
Coordinate maintenance access and equipment disassembly with production and sanitation teams to support thorough cleaning and food safety.
Maintain work orders, preventive maintenance records, spare-parts inventory, and equipment history; address recurring failures before they cause downtime.
Work alongside outside contractors and vendors when specialized or licensed repairs are required, while keeping costs and timelines on track.

Who You Are

You're a hands-on maintenance leader who knows how to keep a busy operation running. You can organize people, prioritize work, and step in to diagnose tough problems yourself. You bring deep expertise in at least one technical discipline—such as electrical, HVAC/refrigeration, or industrial mechanical maintenance—and enough breadth to guide a team across the others. You lead by example, value safety, and know when to bring in a specialist.

Qualifications:

Experience leading or supervising maintenance technicians in manufacturing, industrial, commercial kitchen, or similarly demanding facilities environments.
Deep hands-on expertise in at least one area—electrical, HVAC/refrigeration, mechanical systems, boilers, or burners—with working knowledge of related building and production systems.
Ability to diagnose equipment failures, plan preventive maintenance, prioritize repairs, and coach technicians through hands-on troubleshooting.
Comfortable supporting a wide range of equipment; food or beverage manufacturing, GMP, and commercial bakery equipment experience are preferred, not required.
Available on Saturdays, our primary non-production maintenance day, with flexibility to take other days off; able to provide 24/7 on-call phone support and respond on-site when necessary.
Safety-minded and comfortable with lockout/tagout, schematics, work orders, and coordination around production and sanitation activities.
Able to perform hands-on maintenance work, including extended time on your feet and lifting up to 50 pounds, with reasonable accommodations.

Benefits

Base salary: $100,000–$140,000
Annual performance-based bonus
Health insurance (company covers 70% for employee)
Long-term and short-term disability
401(k) with 4% company match
9 paid holidays plus 2 weeks PTO

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.