Lead Apartment Maintenance Technician

Woodmont Real Estate Services; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 38,572 - 41,328; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision plans

Flexible vacation and time off

401K retirement plans

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Job summary

A property management firm in Palo Alto seeks a Lead Apartment Maintenance Technician. This part-time role involves organizing maintenance tasks, ensuring cleanliness and safety, and responding to service requests. Candidates should have over 3 years of apartment maintenance experience, strong skills in plumbing and painting, and must provide their own tools. Compensation is between $28 – $30 hourly, along with medical benefits and flexible vacation time.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of apartment maintenance experience in multifamily property management.
• Experience with property management systems preferred.
• Familiarity with common diagnostic and repairs for standard apartment appliances.

Responsibilities

• Set the daily plan and assign work orders.
• Establish clear service standards and track team performance.
• Respond to resident service requests and perform repairs.

Skills

Apartment maintenance

Plumbing

Apartment turnover

Painting

Housekeeping

Tools

Hand tools

Power tools

Job description

Woodmont is seeking a professional apartment maintenance professional to join Woodmont Real estate Services as a Lead Apartment Maintenance Technician at the Palomino Apartments, one of our beautiful properties in Palo Alto, CA. This role is perfect for someone with strong apartment maintenance, plumbing, apartment turnover, painting, and housekeeping skills. You'll help keep our community clean, safe, and welcoming, while working closely with team members, residents, and vendors. This is a part-time role with an expected scheduled shift for this role is Monday - Friday; 1:00pm-5:00pm.

If you're organized, hands-on, and ready to make a difference in a beautiful Bay Area community—we want to meet you.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Set the daily plan: assign work orders, turns, and projects; balance workloads and adjust priorities in real time.
• Establish clear service standards (response/turn times, quality checks) and track team performance.
• Coach, mentor, and upskill maintenance staff; model best practices and run quick huddles/toolbox talks.
• Respond to resident service requests and perform repairs and preventative maintenance in accordance with company policies, safety standards, and code requirements.
• Complete the make-ready process for vacant apartments, including inspections, maintenance punch lists, scheduling vendors, and final walkthroughs.
• Maintain proper inventory and supplies by following established procedures for equipment, materials, and tool usage; notify supervisor of reorder needs.
• Assist with maintaining cleanliness and appeal of the community by cleaning common areas, pressure-washing, and general upkeep.
• Support cost-control initiatives by repairing them rather than replacing them when possible and using supplies efficiently.
• Participate in property safety meetings and comply with all OSHA and safety-related regulations.
• Inspecting the vendor and contractor work for quality assurance as needed.
• Assist with periodic property inspections to identify apartment maintenance issues and report physical needs to management.
• Respond to after-hours and weekend emergencies on an on-call rotating basis.

QUALIFICATIONS

Professional Experience

• 3+ years of apartment maintenance experience in multifamily property management.
• Experience with property management systems preferred
• Familiarity with common diagnostic and repairs for standard apartment appliances, such as GE, Whirlpool washers and dryers, refrigerators, microwaves, HVAC, painting, drywall.
• Have own set of hand tools, power tools, and other basic tools required for maintaining the property.
• Ability to be "On Call" as needed.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to stand, walk, bend, stoop, climb ladders, reach, and crawl in confined spaces
• Must be able to lift or maneuver up to 25 lbs. independently and 50 lbs. with assistance
• Comfortable working indoors and outdoors in varying weather conditions
• Flexibility to work on-call shifts, including evenings, weekends, and holidays
• Occasional travel to nearby properties or training sessions may be required. Valid driver's license and reliable transportation needed.

COMPENSATION, BENEFITS & PERKS

BENEFITS & PERKS

We provide medical, dental, and vision plans with options for flexible spending accounts (FSA) and health savings accounts (HSA).

Flexible Vacation & Time Off

Rest and Recharge with a generous PTO plan and 10 company holidays, in addition to your standard Sick time.

We provide all of our employees with access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to help support our team that needs additional support outside of the office.

We provide 401K retirement plans for employees as well as guaranteed life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage. We will match up to a discretionary 10% of the employee contributions, subject to change.

Extra work/life benefits

We provide a number of additional perks for employees, like monthly stipends for mobile plans and Commuter Assistance.

Dynamic, Collaborative, and Engaging Culture

As one of the premier property management firms in North California, we’re constantly communicating, creating, and advocating for new ways to work together and do business. We believe our jobs are made better when everyone operates with transparency, integrity, excellence and works as a team to support each other and the overall goals of the organization.

COMPENSATION

Woodmont Real Estate Services has detailed the expected hourly rate for this role to be $28.00 - $30.00 hourly

This does not include any other potential components of the compensation package, including housing, benefits, and perks outlined above. At the launch of each position, we benchmark compensation to the appropriate role utilizing competitive compensation data from various data sources as references. At the offer stage, we use the signals we received from our interviews coupled with your experience, location, and other job-related factors to determine final compensation.

ABOUT US

Woodmont Real Estate Services is a premier asset and property management company, we're proud to offer Northern California over 50 years' experience managing a diverse portfolio of commercial and multifamily properties. We're renowned for our hands-on management approach, marketing know-how and in-depth knowledge of submarkets throughout the region. It's what's allowed us to create unique strategies that are truly custom to each property.

Our mission

To add value to our clients by providing superior service to all who live and work at the properties we manage. To achieve this goal, we create an exceptional professional environment for all associated with our organization.

All are welcome here.

We respect and honor differences in gender, race, age, faith, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Because we all thrive when our differences are valued.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Woodmont Real Estate Services is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We provide employment opportunities regardless of age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected class. Each individual at Woodmont brings their own perspectives, work experiences, lifestyles, and cultures with them, and we believe that a more diverse team creates more innovative products, provides better services to customers, and helps us all grow and learn.

Woodmont is an E-Verify employer and will provide your Form I‑9 information to the authorized government agency to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. For more information, please visit E-Verify.