Maintenance Technician

What You'll Actually Do

At Antero Apartments in Colorado Springs, you'll carry the full weight of keeping a residential community functional and livable. That means diagnosing and repairing plumbing, electrical, and carpentry issues across units and common areas, completing make-readies between turns, and responding to after-hours emergency calls on rotation with the support of a Service Manager. The on-call component is real and worth acknowledging upfront: this role asks you to be available when residents need help most, and that's not a footnote.

Day to day, you'll move between punch list items on vacant units, resident work orders, and preventive tasks on building systems. HVAC troubleshooting will come up regularly, so candidates who've worked through refrigerant issues, thermostat failures, or seasonal system startups will have an immediate advantage. EPA Type II or Universal certification and a CPO certification both signal that you've worked at this level before, though neither is a hard requirement to apply.

What You Bring

• Demonstrated experience with plumbing, electrical, and general carpentry repairs in a residential setting
• Solid HVAC troubleshooting background, enough to diagnose before escalating
• A valid driver's license and the physical ability to lift up to 50 lbs, climb ladders and stairs, and work in confined or difficult-to-access spaces
• Availability for standard community hours including evenings and weekends, plus on-call rotation
• English fluency sufficient to read work orders, communicate with residents, and interpret safety documentation
• EPA Type II or Universal certification (preferred, not required)
• CPO certification (preferred, not required)

The Craft This Role Builds

A maintenance technician position in a professionally managed apartment community teaches you something that solo trade work rarely does: how to prioritize competing demands across a live property while keeping resident satisfaction intact. You'll get faster at reading a unit's condition on entry, estimating scope accurately, and sequencing repairs so turns don't drag. Those skills transfer directly if you want to grow into a lead tech or Service Manager role. Cottonwood Residential operates at a scale where internal advancement is a real path, and technicians who show diagnostic depth and accountability tend to move up.

What separates strong candidates here isn't just trade knowledge. It's the ability to communicate clearly with a frustrated resident, close out a work order completely the first time, and treat every make-ready like the next person moving in is already watching. That combination of technical competence and resident-facing professionalism is what Cottonwood is actually evaluating.