Director Facilities - Francis Ford Coppola Winery

Delicato Family Wines; Geyserville (CA); On-site; USD 106,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental and vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Discretionary profit sharing

PTO and holidays

Wine and merchandise discounts

Tuition reimbursement

Gym discounts

Job summary

Delicato Family Wines is seeking a Director Facilities to lead maintenance for winery operations in Geyserville and Napa, ensuring infrastructure, buildings, and equipment meet high reliability and safety standards.

You will oversee hospitality areas and ensure a visually impressive guest experience, drive process improvements, and manage budgets while developing a high-performing team across multiple sites.

Qualifications

• AA/AS degree in mechanical, electrical, or industrial maintenance and basic refrigeration knowledge is preferred.
• 7+ years mechanical experience in industrial maintenance.
• 5+ years of leadership or supervisory experience.
• Strong knowledge of winery production or similar manufacturing environments, with project management and process improvement focus.
• Proficiency in Excel for data analysis and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Oversees all facilities and production maintenance.
• Plans and executes preventative and reactive maintenance per standards.
• Manages capital budget and project cost tracking.
• Ensures regulatory reporting for water, waste, elevators, and restaurant compliance.
• Drives continuous improvement, safety, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Enforces policies and develops staff to meet strategic goals.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Data analysis

Project management

Winery production knowledge

Education

AA/AS degree in mechanical/electrical/industrial maintenance

Refrigeration knowledge (basic)

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Office

Job description

Work Location Geyserville

Position Purpose

Acting on own initiative, the Director Facilities is responsible for establishing the methods, procedures, and technical requirements necessary to assure that winery infrastructure, buildings, and equipment are maintained to a high degree of reliability to support day to day winery operations across our Geyserville (Francis Ford Coppola Winery) and Napa sites (Black Stallion Estate Winery, Delicato Corporate Offices). This role is also responsible for assuring that all hospitality areas including restaurants, tasting rooms, retail and memorabilia displays, pool, pavilion, changing cabines, bocce courts, event space, grand staircase, guest houses, guest suites, etc. are maintained to a high standard to assure a visually impressive and safe experience for our guests. This includes establishing leadership and performance standards to which all applicable departments and vendors operate, and ensuring managers and teams are consistently performing to those standards. Strong cross-functional communication, collaboration and process improvement drive are required to keep pace with company growth, technology advances and changes in the industry.

Leadership and Team Culture

• Oversees, directs, and manages departmental activities and team performance
• Drives and models company culture and holds self, peers, and direct reports accountable for demonstrating a constructive company culture through influential, personal behavior and actions
• Develops and implements clearly defined operational and individual goals to develop employees, achieve productivity levels, and to attain the company's strategic plan
• Researches best practices, stays abreast of industry trends, and maintains awareness of regulatory changes to ensure compliance and continually improve operations
• Executes departmental financial objectives by preparing budgets, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective action
• Achieves departmental results to ensure the effective delivery of the strategic plan
• Develops staffing needs; attracts, motivates, and retains a workforce with the appropriate knowledge, skills, and abilities to achieve goals and objectives
• Promotes and ensures a safe and healthy work environment for all employees
• Leads the way and prepares departmental staff for success in a continually changing environment
• Fosters a work environment that encourages creative thinking, promotes flexibility, and drives innovation
• Addresses employee issues, concerns, and complaints in an objective and confidential manner; notifies HR Business Partner and keeps immediate manager informed as appropriate
• Ensures compliance and consistent application of company policies, initiatives, and decisions
• Coaches, guides, and develops direct reports; fully engages in the GPS (Performance Management) process; provides high-quality feedback, and ensures proper GPS documentation of employee performance, recognition, and deficiencies

Essential Duties

• Oversees all facilities and production maintenance
• Plans and executes all phases of preventative and reactive maintenance adhering to quality, productivity, customer, compliance, and budgetary standards
• Ensures accurate regulatory reporting for all distribution and treatment of domestic water, process water, domestic waste , elevators, and restaurant compliance
• Owns the capital budget to support the needs of winery operations and hospitality, including equipment and infrastructure are maintained to a high degree of reliability and overall functionality; management of Capital Expense Requests, project cost tracking, and timely completion of projects
• Ensures continuous improvement processes are developed, maintained, and utilized to enable team collaboration, analysis, and problem solving in the pursuit of equipment reliability, quality, efficiencies, and lower operating costs
• Communicates and coordinates with winemaking, cellar, bottling, compliance, and support functions to ensure wine quality focus, annual harvest processing delivery, project delivery where applicable, maintenance requirements and overall facility process/performance effectiveness
• Enforces Safety, ISO, cGMP, and other applicable business critical standards
• Promotes skill development programs to keep pace with current and future technology requirements
• Other duties may be assigned

Non-Essential Duties

• Other duties may be assigned

Minimum Requirements

• AA/AS degree in mechanical, electrical, or industrial maintenance and basic refrigeration and electrical a plus
• 7+ years mechanical experience in Industrial Maintenance
• 5+ years leadership/supervisory experience

Certificates and Licenses

• Valid California Drivers License

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Demonstrated knowledge of winery production or similar manufacturing background, project management, process improvement and team leadership
• Strong computer knowledge is a prerequisite and Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint) skills are required with a strong emphasis and track record using Excel for data analysis
• Excellent communication skills – both formal and informal with the ability to communicate within all levels of the organization
• Knowledge of managerial finance

Working Conditions

• General office environment with occasional travel
• Required to drive automotive vehicle or equipment
• Indoor and outdoor environment with exposure to the elements/temperature variations
• Exposure to weather-related temperature & humidity extremes
• Extended Hours
• Work at protected heights of 50'
• Exposure to varying levels of dust, chemicals, fumes, gases, and noisy equipment

Work Standards

• Acts in a manner reflective of the Company culture of High Moral Standards, Innovation and Continuous Evolution, Trust in Team, Continuous Improvement, and Sustainable Relationships
• Communicates, interacts, and works effectively with others; receptive to feedback and coaching; voices concerns in a constructive manner
• Demonstrates commitment to safety first; communicates safety concerns; promotes a safe work environment based on established safety standards and training
• Follows all Company policies and procedures

Additional Comments

Management retains the discretion to add to or change the duties of the position at any time.

California Pay Transparency Disclaimer

California Pay Transparency Disclaimer: This is a Exempt position. The pay range for this position is $106,311.60 to $166,226.64. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role. Actual placement within range will be contingent upon a number of factors, including but not limited to the candidate's qualifications, education, experience, internal equity and alignment with market data.

Delicato Family Wines offers its employees a generous and comprehensive benefits package.

• The core health insurance components include medical, dental and vision, where Delicato covers nearly the entire cost for employees and a large percentage for dependents.
• Additional health benefits include life, disability and flexible spending accounts.
• Other benefits include 401(k) with generous company match, discretionary profit sharing, paid time off (PTO), paid holidays, wine & merchandise discounts, tuition reimbursement, gym discounts & many more.

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES

Please note that we do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Recruitment Services Agreement, we will not consider, or agree to, payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event that a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement, we explicitly reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency.

Delicato Family Wines is an Equal Opportunity Employer.