Maintenance Technician

Job Title: Maintenance Technician

Location: Bedford County, VA

Reports To: Property Manager

Position is Full Time at 40 hours per week

$21.00 /hour

Our Mission:

The combined mission of Metropolitan Housing and CDC and Metropolitan Property Management is to improve the overall quality of life for low to moderate income persons through comprehensive systematic and sustainable management efforts. With the attainable goal of helping people help themselves, we strive to ensure safe and affordable housing to our clients by providing the highest standards of professionalism, competence, and integrity, thereby helping them maintain their dignity. Our efforts are founded through faith-driven empowerment.

Basic Functions:

Serve as the on-site Maintenance Technician for the individual properties. Perform maintenance, ground care and custodial duties as assigned. Duties include but not limited to cleaning out vacant units, cleaning offices, bathrooms and common areas in project offices, providing labor support to the Site Manager. Job duties will be primarily driven by work order requests from tenants. Other responsibilities will include communicating problems, providing day to day coverage and being on call for emergency duties; and accurately recording and submitting time-keeping and work order related paperwork. Must be able to work independently and will take ownership of responsibilities. Must be personable with exceptional communication skills possess a positive attitude, demonstrate attention to detail and capable of representing your site. Required to have his/her own vehicle, a valid driver's license and appropriate insurance.

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Must be mechanically inclined with a substantial background in building maintenance and repair duties such as:
• Common area maintenance (changing light bulbs, replacing ceiling tiles and daytime and night emergency janitorial duties.
• Minor drywall repair and taping
• Painting
• Locksmith
• Carpentry
• Minor plumbing and electrical repairs that do not require a license
• Performs electrical and preventive maintenance tasks such as inspecting, plumbing fixtures for leaks and repairs, checking drain lines to ensure they are free of obstruction, checking appliances for proper operation, testing light switches and electrical outlets.
• Performs such carpentry work as hanging doors and installing windows, replacing/repairing door and window hardware, reglazing windows, installing and/or repairing floor tiles and cabinets and handrails; gutters and downspouts; replacing floor tiles and repairing carpet, and patching plaster walls and ceilings.
• Performs such plastering and sheetrock repair as mixing plaster and drywall mud, removing old plaster and lathe; ground.
• Performs plumbing tasks as repairing faucet washers, seats, stems, spigots, valves, and hardware; resetting commodes, tubs and sinks; repairing water leaks, replacing and or/ repairing flush valves or flush tank hardware; and clearing clogged drains and soil lines.
• Performs such painting tasks as preparing surfaces for painting.
• Performs necessary duties for Move-ins.
• Performs necessary miscellaneous maintenance related tasks for a variety of situations as directed by Site Manager.
• Utilizes a wide range of powered and non-powered hand tools such as drills, sanders, sewage line cleaners, saw, hammers, pillars, screwdriver, wrenches, oilers, and volt-amp meters.
• Provide scheduled on-call 24-hour coverage, as assigned
• Ability to install electrical appliances

Benefits:

Competitive Benefits include Health, Dental (100% paid by MPM), Life (100% paid by MPM), 401K (100% match up 7%), Employees Assistance Program, Short & Long Term Disability (100% paid by MPM), PTO Plan and Sick Leave. Exceptional Employee Recognition Program, and a phenomenal paid holiday Schedule (includes paid day off for birthdays)