Lead Maintenance Technician - Oak Manor & Angel Street Apartments

What You'll Actually Do

MG Properties is hiring a Lead Maintenance Technician to oversee day-to-day physical operations across Oak Manor and Angel Street Apartments in Reno. This is a working lead position, meaning you're turning wrenches alongside your team while also coordinating schedules, managing make-ready timelines, and keeping service requests moving toward resolution within 24 hours. On any given day that might mean diagnosing an HVAC issue in the morning, walking a punch list on a turned unit before noon, running a safety meeting with your technicians in the afternoon, and fielding an after-hours emergency call in the evening. The role covers all trades: plumbing, electrical, appliance repair, painting, lock changes, and grounds upkeep.

You'll also carry real administrative responsibility. Preventive maintenance logs, make-ready status tracking, SDS sheets, inventory levels, and expenditure reporting all fall within your scope. MG Properties uses Yardi for work order processing and PayScan for purchasing, so comfort with those platforms matters from day one.

What You Bring

• At least two years of apartment maintenance experience, ideally on a property of 200 units or more
• Working knowledge across trades: plumbing, electrical, HVAC, appliance repair
• HVAC Universal certification (CPO certification also required or expected)
• Familiarity with Yardi maintenance systems, including mobile work order processing
• Valid driver's license with current liability insurance
• Ability to lift 50 pounds and handle physically demanding work both indoors and outdoors
• A service mindset and the flexibility to be available for emergency coverage

Where This Role Fits in a Maintenance Career

Lead tech roles build the skill set that separates good maintenance supervisors from great ones. The jump from technician to lead is mostly about technical range. The jump from lead to Maintenance Supervisor, or eventually Maintenance Director across a portfolio, depends on what you develop here: scheduling discipline, vendor coordination, team training, and the ability to anticipate problems before they become capital expenses. Working across two properties simultaneously also gives you exposure to how different site conditions and resident profiles affect operations, which is genuinely useful context if you move into a supervisory role overseeing multiple communities.

MG Properties has been acquiring and managing communities across the Western U.S. for over 30 years, which means internal growth paths exist. Candidates who come in already fluent in Yardi, who understand preventive maintenance as a NOI protection strategy rather than just a task list, and who can coach junior technicians without creating friction tend to move quickly within organizations like this one.