Description

JOB DESCRIPTION  

Join the Kittle Property Group team as a Maintenance Technician at Landings at Belle Meadows Apartments and be part of a company that values excellence, collaboration, and community commitment. We're looking for a dedicated professional who can deliver outstanding maintenance services and exceptional customer care.

**Pay Rate:** $20/hour
**Benefits:** Competitive wages paid weekly and free safety/work boots through our Maintenance Boots Program.

**Position Summary:**
As a Maintenance Technician, you'll be responsible for maintaining the property, ensuring a safe and pleasant environment for our residents. You'll present the company in a professional manner at all times while performing essential duties.

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities:**
- Monitor and manage maintenance expenses to stay within budget.
- Inspect community grounds every morning.
- Perform unit turns, including painting, cleaning, and maintenance of vacant units.
- Complete maintenance requests promptly.
- Prepare vacant units for new residents.
- Conduct preventative maintenance activities.
- Maintain landscaping, including bushes, trees, and lawns.
- Perform snow removal on community sidewalks and maintain records.
- Keep maintenance logs and records for all units and the site.
- Ensure all tools, equipment, and replacement parts are in working condition.
- Provide emergency resident support after office hours.
- Supervise contractors working on-site.
- Conduct quarterly unit inspections.
- Carry out other duties as assigned.

**Qualifications/Skills & Knowledge Requirements:**
- High school diploma or GED.
- At least 1 year of maintenance experience.
- HVAC/EPA certification preferred.
- Ability to read, write, and communicate effectively.
- Basic math skills.
- Strong reasoning skills and common sense understanding of instructions.
- Beginner skills with MS Outlook and MS Word.

If you're ready to take on this exciting role and contribute to a team that values innovation and accountability, apply today to join the KPG family at Landings at Belle Meadows Apartments!

EXPECTATION FOR ALL EMPLOYEES  

Supports the organization's mission and values by exhibiting the following behaviors: excellence and competence, collaboration, innovation, respect personalization, commitment to our community, and accountability and ownership.  

POSITION SUMMARY:  

Responsible and accountable for providing maintenance at the properties, providing customer service and presenting the company in a professional manner at all times.  

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:  

• Monitor maintenance expenses and ensure that they are below budget.
• Perform an inspection of community grounds each morning.
• Perform turn (painting, cleaning, maintenance of all vacant units.
• Complete all maintenance request in a timely manner.
• Prepare all vacant units for occupancy.
• Complete preventative maintenance activities.
• Maintain landscaping, bushes, trees and lawn.
• Perform snow removal of community sidewalks.
• Maintain log of weather and snow removal efforts.
• Maintain records of maintenance performed in all units and at the site.
• Maintain all KPG’s tools, equipment and replacement parts in working condition.
• Provide and maintain own set of personal tools.
• Sweep, clean and maintain all common areas of the community.
• Supervise contractors working at the site.
• Provide emergency resident support after office hours.
• Maintain resident and specific apartment preventative maintenance records.
• Provide service and maintenance for all common amenities.
• Conduct quarterly unit inspections.
• Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS  

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
• 1 year of experience
• HVAC/EPA certification preferred
• Language Skills – Ability to read, write, speak and interpret basic instructions, simple correspondence and present information one-on-one or in small groups.
• Math Skills – Ability to add, subtract, multiply, divide by 10s and 100s.
• Reasoning Skills – Ability to carry out detailed, but uninvolved written or oral instructions with common sense understanding. Ability to deal with problems that involve few variables in standardized situations.
• Computer Skills – Beginner skills with MS Outlook and MS Word.

TRAINING REQUIREMENTS:  

• Annually attend fair housing class.
• Ongoing professional development.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:  

• Rarely must sit, climb, balance or lift up to 75 pounds.
• Regularly must stand, walk, use hands to finger/handle/feel, reach with hands/arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, bend, talk and hear.
• Close and distance vision is required. The ability to adjust focus is also required.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:  

• Normally works in an environment with moderate or loud noise.
• Rarely must work in wet or humid conditions, near moving mechanical parts, high/precarious places, around fumes/airborne particles/toxic or caustic chemicals and near risk of electrical shock.
• Occasionally must work in outdoor weather conditions.