Lead Maintenance Technician - The Griff

Nashville's rental market doesn't slow down, and neither does the maintenance operation at a well-run apartment community. Olympus Property is hiring a Lead Maintenance Technician at The Griff, and this is a genuine supervisory role, not a senior tech position with a fancier title. You're running the shop.

Day to day, that means scheduling your team's workload across turns, service requests, and preventative maintenance, while also staying hands-on enough to coordinate HVAC repairs, manage contractors, and keep the grounds, pool, and building systems in working order. Make-ready quality directly affects lease-up velocity and resident retention, so the pressure to keep vacant units show-ready and move-in ready is real. You'll work closely with the property's Business Manager and office staff, which means communication matters as much as technical skill. A lead who can't translate maintenance priorities into language the leasing team understands tends to create friction that shows up in delinquency excuses and renewal pushback.

Olympus has pulled three consecutive years on the NAA's Top Employer list, which in our industry is not nothing. The benefits package reflects that. Pay comes in at $35 to $37 per hour depending on experience, with monthly and quarterly bonuses on top. They also offer an apartment rental allowance, tuition reimbursement, and a sabbatical program, which you don't see often at the property level.

What separates the strong candidates here from the average ones isn't just the EPA/HVAC cert or the three years of supervisor experience, though both are required. It's the ability to run an organized shop. Inventory control, scheduled inspections, a clean maintenance room, and consistent documentation in the property management software are the unsexy stuff that keeps a community from bleeding capex dollars on reactive repairs. Leads who treat the shop like a priority tend to have fewer emergency calls, lower vendor costs, and crews that actually stay.

What You'll Need

• Minimum 3 years in an apartment maintenance supervisor role
• EPA/HVAC certification
• Experience coordinating third-party contractors and managing a service team
• Comfort with property management software for tracking work orders, inventory, and inspections
• Availability Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM, plus on-call rotation

On-call is part of this role. That's the honest acknowledgment every lead maintenance posting should include but often buries. If that's a dealbreaker, this probably isn't the right fit. If you've been doing this long enough that on-call is just Tuesday, then The Griff is worth a closer look.