Maintenance Assistant - PSH
About The Position
The Center for Veterans Issues, Inc. (CVI) is looking for a dependable, skilled, and mission-driven Maintenance Worker to help keep our properties safe, comfortable, and welcoming for the Veterans we serve. This is an opportunity to put your skills to work for a powerful purpose, building skills and creating safe homes for veterans. Working closely with the Maintenance Lead, you will help maintain CVI properties and ensure they meet fire, building, HUD, and Housing Authority standards. You’ll handle a wide variety of hands-on responsibilities, including completing apartment turnovers, performing general carpentry, painting, plumbing, electrical, mechanical, and landscaping work, inspecting buildings, equipment, and systems for maintenance or safety concerns, completing preventive maintenance tasks and assigned projects on schedule, prioritizing, tracking, and updating work orders in Buildium, maintaining tools and equipment in clean, safe, working condition, providing regular updates to maintenance and program leadership, traveling between CVI locations as needed, and participating in shared on-call duties and responding to maintenance emergencies.
Requirements
- A high school diploma or equivalent
- Previous maintenance, repair, construction, or related experience
- A valid driver’s license
- General carpentry, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing skills
- Confidence using hand and power tools
- Basic proficiency with tablets, smartphones, laptops, and electronic work-order systems
- The flexibility and reliability needed to respond to changing priorities and occasional emergencies
- Dependable, safety-conscious, and comfortable taking initiative while following direction
- Professional communication skills
- Ability to stay composed when challenges arise
- Enjoy working as part of a team serving people from diverse backgrounds
Responsibilities
- Completing apartment turnovers, typically within two weeks
- Performing general carpentry, painting, plumbing, electrical, mechanical, and landscaping work
- Inspecting buildings, equipment, and systems for maintenance or safety concerns
- Completing preventive maintenance tasks and assigned projects on schedule
- Prioritizing, tracking, and updating work orders in Buildium
- Maintaining tools and equipment in clean, safe, working condition
- Providing regular updates to maintenance and program leadership
- Traveling between CVI locations as needed
- Participating in shared on-call duties and responding to maintenance emergencies
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
