Join the KPG Team as a Maintenance Technician at Swiftwater Luxury Apartments!

Are you ready to take your maintenance skills to the next level? We're looking for a dedicated Maintenance Technician to join us at our brand-new Swiftwater Luxury Apartments, currently in the exciting lease-up phase. With competitive wages paid weekly and free safety/work boots through our Maintenance Boots Program, you'll have everything you need to succeed in this dynamic role.

Pay Rate: $25.00/Hour Plus Lease-up Bonus Potential and Full Benefits Package 

**What You'll Do:**
- Monitor and manage maintenance expenses to stay within budget.
- Conduct daily inspections of community grounds and ensure they are well-maintained.
- Prepare vacant units for occupancy, including painting, cleaning, and maintenance.
- Complete maintenance requests and preventative maintenance activities promptly.
- Maintain landscaping, perform snow removal, and manage records of all maintenance work.
- Supervise contractors on-site and provide emergency support after hours.
- Conduct quarterly unit inspections and maintain common amenities.

**Exciting Opportunities:**
- Work closely with our construction department until the property is fully stabilized.
- Learn and grow with our corporate maintenance team by taking instructor-led EPA and CPO courses.

**What We're Looking For:**
- High school diploma or GED.
- 1 year of maintenance experience; HVAC/EPA certification is a plus.
- Strong communication skills and a basic understanding of math.
- Ability to follow instructions and solve problems with a common sense approach.
- Beginner skills in MS Outlook and MS Word.
- Willingness to engage in ongoing professional development.

**What to Expect:**
- A dynamic work environment with moderate to loud noise levels.
- Occasional work in outdoor conditions and rare exposure to wet or humid environments.

At KPG, we value excellence, collaboration, and a commitment to our community. If you're ready to contribute to our mission and grow with us, we'd love to hear from you!

Apply today to join our team and make a difference at Swiftwater Luxury Apartments!

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Maintenance Technician is responsible and accountable for providing maintenance at the properties, providing customer service and presenting the company in a professional manner at all times.

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.