POSITION OVERVIEW
- Job Title: Maintenance Supervisor
- Company: Redbird Bioscience
- Location: Stilwell, OK (On-Site)
- Position Type: Full-Time
- Reports To: General Manager
POSITION SUMMARY
Redbird Bioscience is seeking an experienced, proactive, and hands-on Maintenance Supervisor to lead the maintenance team and oversee facility systems at our Stilwell, Oklahoma cultivation and processing facility. Reporting to the General Manager, this role supervises and works alongside 5 to 7 maintenance technicians supporting electrical, mechanical, preventive maintenance, facility projects, and rapid troubleshooting.
The Maintenance Supervisor will lead from the floor, balancing hands-on technical problem-solving with team leadership to maximize uptime, protect crop and product, enforce safety standards, and support compliant operations.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Team Leadership & Safe Work
- Team Leadership & Work Allocation: Lead, schedule, assign, train, and mentor 5 to 7 maintenance technicians. Balance daily facility routines, preventive maintenance, repairs, and projects based on operational priorities and team capabilities.
- Hands-On Troubleshooting & Mentorship: Work alongside technicians to diagnose and resolve complex electrical, mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, HVAC, and environmental-control issues while reinforcing SOPs and workmanship standards.
- Safety & Work Authorization: Enforce LOTO, PPE, electrical safe-work, hot-work, and contractor-safety requirements. Ensure employees work only within their training and authorization, and coordinate qualified or licensed personnel when permits, specialized credentials, high-voltage work, or energized-work authorization are required.
2. Facility Reliability & Projects
- Preventive Maintenance & CMMS: Manage and execute preventive maintenance for cultivation and processing equipment, HVAC systems, generators, and facility utilities. Maintain accurate work orders, repair histories, downtime records, and critical spare-parts inventory.
- Facility Projects & Contractor Coordination: Plan and support equipment installations, utility routing, plumbing and piping repairs, and facility improvements. Coordinate vendors and contractors, including site access, safety, documentation, and secure-area requirements.
- Controlled-Environment Systems & Critical Utilities: Maintain facility reliability, personally or through assigned technicians and vendors, across systems such as HVAC and dehumidification, airflow, BMS/EMS controls, CO2 monitoring and delivery, irrigation/fertigation, water treatment, drainage, compressed air, generators/UPS, and the building envelope.
- Production-Impact Prioritization & Return to Service: Coordinate maintenance windows with cultivation, processing, quality, compliance, and operations. Prioritize work based on personnel safety, crop health, product protection, regulatory risk, and downtime; verify repairs, setpoints, alarms, and interlocks before returning equipment or rooms to service, with operations or quality release when required.
- Emergency & Life-Safety Readiness: Support inspection and readiness of fire alarms and sprinklers, emergency lighting and egress, eyewash and safety showers, leak detection, generators, utility shutoffs, and emergency-response procedures; coordinate qualified service for specialized systems when applicable.
- Sanitation, Biosecurity & Product Protection: Follow room-entry, tool-cleaning, sanitation, and material-control procedures; control dust, debris, moisture, condensation, pests, and cross-contamination; and ensure maintenance activity does not compromise secure areas, plant tags, inventory traceability, stored product, or required surveillance coverage.
3. Reporting & Documentation
- Management Reporting & Coordination: Provide regular updates to the General Manager on maintenance schedules, project timelines, critical failures, downtime, and parts or contractor needs; coordinate priorities with affected departments.
- Daily Room Status Reporting: Post beginning- and end-of-day maintenance status updates to the internal messaging board for each production and non-production room. Identify environmental exceptions, active maintenance tasks, production impact, assigned owner, current status, and estimated return-to-service time; record "no active maintenance issue" when applicable.
- Documentation & Audit Support: Keep work orders, preventive-maintenance records, equipment histories, calibration and verification records, SDS records, contractor documentation, permits, training records, and maintenance SOPs inspection-ready; support OMMA, fire marshal, insurance, GACP, GMP, and internal quality audits as applicable.
QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS
Required Qualifications
- Experience: 5+ years of hands-on industrial, commercial, or specialized facility maintenance experience, including at least two years in a supervisory or team-lead role.
- Technical Capability: Broad electrical and mechanical troubleshooting experience, with advanced proficiency in at least one relevant maintenance discipline.
- Maintenance Management: Experience managing preventive maintenance programs, work orders and CMMS documentation, facility projects, and critical spare-parts inventory.
- Safety & Work Authorization: Working knowledge of LOTO, PPE, electrical safe-work practices, hot-work controls, and contractor safety; able to identify when permits, specialized expertise, or qualified or licensed contractors are required.
- Documentation & Problem Solving: Ability to read and interpret schematics, electrical one-line diagrams, blueprints, P&IDs, equipment manuals, and control sequences; demonstrated root-cause analysis and clear maintenance documentation.
- Leadership & Communication: Strong leadership, prioritization, communication, organization, and problem-solving skills with a hands-on supervisory style.
- Licensing Requirements: Ability to obtain and maintain any OMMA-issued employee credential required by law and company policy, and to promptly report changes in credential status.
- Candidates must successfully pass an OSBI background check and meet all eligibility requirements to obtain and maintain a valid OMMA employee credential. Employment is contingent upon receiving and maintaining this credential.
Preferred Qualifications
- Regulated-Facility Experience: Experience in cannabis cultivation or processing, controlled-environment agriculture, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or another regulated production environment. Familiarity with maintenance documentation, calibration, sanitation controls, or quality systems is beneficial.
- Systems Experience: Experience with several of the following: HVAC and dehumidification, BMS/EMS controls, VFDs and motor controls, PLC-based equipment, irrigation or water-treatment systems, environmental sensors, generators, or other critical utilities.
- Education & Credentials: Relevant trade education, apprenticeship, license, or technical certification, such as HVAC/EPA Section 608, electrical, industrial maintenance, OSHA, NFPA 70E, or comparable credentials.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS & WORK ENVIRONMENT
- Must be able to walk facility floors, stand, bend, climb ladders, and navigate tight mechanical rooms or active operational spaces.
- Ability to routinely lift and move up to 50 lbs.
- Able to work safely around electrical panels, operating machinery, elevated work areas, and variable room temperatures.
- Flexibility to respond to urgent facility emergencies or call-ins outside standard hours when necessary.
- Essential physical functions must be performed with or without reasonable accommodation.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
- Base Salary: $65,000-$80,000 per year (commensurate with experience and qualifications)
- Benefits:
- Partial Health Insurance Reimbursement
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Paid Holidays
Pay: $65,000.00 - $80,000.00 per year
Benefits:
Work Location: In person
