Overview
Aga's Restaurant, Houston’s premier spot for authentic Indo-Pak cuisine, seeks a dependable, hands-on Maintenance Lead to oversee facility upkeep, repairs, safety, and appearance across all locations. This critical role ensures smooth operations through preventive maintenance, urgent repairs, vendor coordination, and keeping guest-facing and back-of-house areas safe, functional, and well-maintained.
We need a mechanically skilled, organized, proactive leader to manage systems like HVAC, refrigeration, plumbing, electrical, lighting, doors, restrooms, fixtures, signage, exteriors, and safety equipment. The position blends daily hands-on work, long-term planning, inspections, documentation, and collaboration with operations leadership to minimize downtime and enhance guest experience.
Key Responsibilities
Join our team to keep both restaurant locations safe, operational, clean, and guest-ready every day.
- Perform routine inspections across all locations to identify repair needs, safety concerns, and wear in dining rooms, kitchens, restrooms, exteriors, storage, offices, and back-of-house.
- Execute and maintain preventive schedules for HVAC, refrigeration, plumbing, electrical, lighting, exhaust fans, doors, caulking, and building components.
- Repair doors, locks, furniture, restroom fixtures, walls/floors; oversee exteriors
- Support deep cleaning like tile/grout, carpets, upholstery, drains.
- Check fire extinguishers, alarms, emergency lighting, and life-safety systems; monitor pests and coordinate with providers.
- Respond to urgent issues impacting operations, food/employee/guest safety;
- Perform majority of repairs in-house and manage vendors for major work.
- Maintain detailed logs, records, checklists, repair histories, and vendor docs; travel as needed; communicate priorities, concerns, budgets, and updates to leadership.
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years in restaurant, hospitality, commercial building, or facilities maintenance.
- Strong hands-on skills in HVAC, refrigeration, plumbing, electrical, and general repairs; experience with preventive schedules and checklists.
- Ability to troubleshoot independently, prioritize across locations, and thrive in fast-paced restaurant environments.
- Valid driver’s license, reliable transportation, lift 50 lbs, physical stamina; flexible for early mornings, evenings, weekends, or emergencies
Compensation and Benefits
Earn competitive total pay of $60,000-$80,000 annually. Complimentary meal per day.
Pay: $60,000.00 - $80,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Employee discount
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
Work Location: In person
