Portfolio Maintenance Manager

Career Strategies; Oakland (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Career Strategies in Oakland, CA, seeks a Portfolio Maintenance Manager to lead hands-on maintenance across multiple multifamily assets. You will work closely with site teams to develop and enforce processes, train staff, and raise maintenance standards.

The role emphasizes field visibility, preventive maintenance planning, vendor management, and capital project coordination, with success measured by work order times, turn efficiency, budgets, and quality scores.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years overseeing maintenance for multiple multifamily communities.
• HVAC knowledge required; EPA 608 and CPO preferred.
• Hands-on field leader building processes, training teams, elevating standards.

Responsibilities

• Oversee maintenance across multiple multifamily communities.
• Build processes and train site teams to elevate standards.
• Improve field visibility and ensure consistent process implementation.
• Manage capex planning and vendor relationships to support budgets and quality.

Skills

Strong diagnostic background

HVAC knowledge

EPA 608 certification

CPO certification

Preventive maintenance planning

Vendor management

Make-ready oversight

OSHA compliance

Capital project coordination

Job description

Portfolio Maintenance Manager – Oakland, CA

• Location: Bay Area (local candidates only, primarily field-based across Oakland assets)
• Role: Hands-on field leader working closely with site teams to build processes, train, and elevate standards
• Experience: Minimum 5 years overseeing maintenance for multiple multifamily communities
• Technical: Strong diagnostic background; HVAC knowledge required; EPA 608 and CPO preferred
• Focus: Field visibility, team development, consistent process implementation
• KPIs: Work order completion times, turn efficiency, budget control, and quality scores
• Capex planning and management

• Location: Bay Area (local candidates only, primarily field-based across Oakland assets)
• Role: Hands-on field leader working closely with site teams to build processes, train, and elevate standards
• Experience: Minimum 5 years overseeing maintenance for multiple multifamily communities
• Skills: Preventive maintenance planning, make-ready oversight, vendor management, OSHA compliance, capital project coordination
• Technical: Strong diagnostic background; HVAC knowledge required; EPA 608 and CPO preferred
• Focus: Field visibility, team development, consistent process implementation
• KPIs: Work order completion times, turn efficiency, budget control, and quality scores
• Capex planning and management