Director Facilities - Francis Ford Coppola Winery

Work Location: Geyserville

About the Role

The Director of Facilities acts on their own initiative to establish methods, procedures, and technical requirements ensuring winery infrastructure, buildings, and equipment are maintained to a high degree of reliability. This supports day-to-day winery operations across Geyserville (Francis Ford Coppola Winery) and Napa sites (Black Stallion Estate Winery, Delicato Corporate Offices). The role also ensures all hospitality areas—including restaurants, tasting rooms, retail and memorabilia displays, pool, pavilion, changing cabins, bocce courts, event space, grand staircase, guest houses, and guest suites—are maintained to a high standard for a visually impressive and safe guest experience. Responsibilities include setting leadership and performance standards for applicable departments and vendors, and ensuring consistent performance.

Strong cross-functional communication, collaboration, and process improvement drive are required to keep pace with company growth, technological advances, and industry changes.

Leadership and Team Culture

• Oversees, directs, and manages departmental activities and team performance.
• Drives and models company culture, holding self, peers, and direct reports accountable for constructive behavior.
• Develops and implements operational and individual goals to develop employees, achieve productivity, and attain the company’s strategic plan.
• Researches best practices, stays abreast of industry trends, and maintains awareness of regulatory changes to ensure compliance and improve operations.
• Executes departmental financial objectives by preparing budgets, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective action.
• Achieves departmental results to ensure effective delivery of the strategic plan.
• Develops staffing needs; attracts, motivates, and retains a workforce with appropriate knowledge, skills, and abilities.
• Promotes and ensures a safe and healthy work environment.
• Leads and prepares staff for success in a continually changing environment.
• Fosters a work environment encouraging creative thinking, flexibility, and innovation.
• Addresses employee issues, concerns, and complaints objectively and confidentially; 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 documentation of performance.

Responsibilities

• 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 distribution and treatment of domestic water, process water, domestic waste, elevators, and restaurant compliance.
• Owns the capital budget to support winery operations and hospitality, including equipment and infrastructure maintenance; manages Capital Expense Requests, project cost tracking, and timely project completion.
• Ensures continuous improvement processes are developed and maintained to enable team collaboration, analysis, and problem-solving for 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, project delivery, 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.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• AA/AS degree in mechanical, electrical, or industrial maintenance; basic refrigeration and electrical knowledge is a plus.
• 7+ years of mechanical experience in Industrial Maintenance.
• 5+ years of leadership/supervisory experience.
• Valid California Driver’s License.

Skills

• Demonstrated knowledge of winery production or similar manufacturing background, project management, process improvement, and team leadership.
• Strong computer knowledge, including Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint) with a strong emphasis on Excel for data analysis.
• Excellent communication skills—both formal and informal—with the ability to communicate at all organizational levels.
• Knowledge of managerial finance.

Working Conditions

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

Work Standards

• Acts in a manner reflective of the company culture: 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 constructively.
• Demonstrates a 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.

Pay

This is an exempt position with a pay range of $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. Actual placement within the range will be contingent upon qualifications, education, experience, internal equity, and alignment with market data.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision) with nearly full coverage for employees and a large percentage for dependents.
• Life, disability, and flexible spending accounts.
• 401(k) with generous company match and discretionary profit sharing.
• Paid time off (PTO) and paid holidays.
• Wine and merchandise discounts.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Gym discounts and other additional benefits.