Maintenance Technician - Ascend Management

Position Summary

This position is empowered by the Maintenance Supervisor and Community Manager to deliver the highest quality customer service and provide an unmatched level of personal attention to residents. Our Maintenance Technicians have the opportunity to address and respond to our resident's service needs and are instrumental in maintaining the facility operations at their community.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

• Provide direct support to our Maintenance Supervisor
• Utilize your troubleshooting skills to respond to a wide variety of residential service requests in a timely and professional manner
• Prepare apartment homes for rent by performing various repairs in HVAC, electrical, plumbing, carpentry, dry wall, building exteriors, and appliances
• Ensure that any unresolved maintenance issues or concerns are reported to the Maintenance Supervisor
• Providing emergency/unscheduled repairs
• Complying with safety regulations and maintaining clean and orderly work areas
• Performing regular preventive maintenance
• Using a variety of hand and power tools, electric meters, and material handling equipment in performing duties
• Performing other work-related duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

• Required education: High school degree or equivalent
• Experience repairing plumbing, carpentry, dry wall, HVAC and appliances
• Dedication to exceeding the needs of all customers with an ability to build and maintain relationships
• Demonstrate thoroughness, accuracy, and organization when accomplishing tasks
• Ability to work on-call hours
• Effective at prioritizing multiple demands and meeting deadlines
• Proactive team player; reliable and responsive
• A natural problem solver; decisive and can work independently

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to sit. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 75 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move heavier weight necessary at times. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock, and explosives. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. However, on some instances this job may require work in areas where ear protection is necessary. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to outside weather conditions.

Note

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbents will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.