Property Maintenance Technician

Spartanburg Housing provides affordable housing options for the citizens of Spartanburg. Celebrating 85 years, we continually work towards our mission to develop and provide affordable, quality housing options and programs that promote self-sufficiency for area residents. If you are looking for a career that changes lives, Spartanburg Housing is for you!

Spartanburg Housing offers a complete benefits package to qualifying employees. Medical, Dental, and Retirement are state benefits. We also provide cancer, short-term disability, long-term disability, accident, vision, and life insurance.

We are currently looking for a full-time Property Maintenance Technician for multiple properties within our portfolio.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Procure all bids and proposals. Supervises outside contractors and vendors performing duties on the property.
• Schedules makereadies.
• Orders supplies while maintaining the budget and adequate shop inventory to complete task.
• Keeps accurate records regarding preventative maintenance, apartment makereadies, required property logs, and annual inspections, and ensures all of the tasks are completed.
• Makes sure all scheduled maintenance on equipment, tools, appliances, or other items, based on the manufacturer's recommendations, is performed.
• Possesses knowledge of water and gas meter cut-offs, all apartment fixture cut-offs, sewer clean-outs, and conspicuous posting of a map of these.
• Completes electrical and plumbing system planned maintenance.
• Completes carpentry-related duties, masonry work, and repairs sheet rock.
• Performs minor paint jobs and other related tasks as: preparing surfaces for painting by patching plaster holes, sanding, scraping, or masking.
• Performs necessary manual labor to keep properties in a decent, safe, and sanitary condition including picking up trash and debris. Maintaining acceptable property curb appeal.
• Ability to check emails, enter and close work orders into the agency's computer programs.
• Performs mechanical tasks as repairing and/or replacing HVAC equipment controls.
• Participate in the on-call rotation as needed.
• Provide sufficient customer service to all residents, team members, and vendors.
• Have basic hand tools to perform work.
• Have a valid driver's license and reliable transportation.
• Various other maintenance tasks.

Education and Experience:

High school diploma or GED, or trade or vocational school certification, with a minimum of four (4) years of experience in skilled trade building/facility maintenance, preferably in property management and/or public housing or local government. CFC type two or universal EPA 608 certification is required.

Any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience, which, in the sole determination of Spartanburg Housing, provides the required knowledge and abilities, may be considered sufficient.