Maintenance Technician (Arroyo Green, Firehouse Square)

Maintenance Technician roles at affordable housing nonprofits carry a different weight than comparable positions at market-rate properties. The residents here, working families, seniors, and people with special needs, depend on functional, safe housing in ways that make a slow work order or a deferred repair genuinely consequential. MidPen Housing has operated in Northern California since 1970 and manages more than 130 properties across 12 counties. This opening covers two Redwood City communities: Arroyo Green and Firehouse Square.

What the Work Actually Looks Like

You'll report to the Community Manager and handle the kind of multi-trade workload that keeps affordable communities running day to day. That means plumbing repairs on water and sewage systems, electrical work on appliances, fixtures, switches, and circuits, and carpentry across both structural framing and finish work. Unit turns are a core part of the job. You'll take vacant units through the full make-ready process, painting, flooring, fixture and appliance installation, getting them back to move-in condition within MidPen's established timeframes.

Beyond the unit-level work, you'll maintain landscaping and irrigation systems, keep common areas clean, well-lit, and secure, and run preventive maintenance schedules with accurate work order documentation. You'll also coordinate with outside contractors, helping with bid coordination, scheduling, and monitoring completion.

One part of this role that distinguishes it from a straight technician position: you'll coach and provide oversight to Maintenance Groundskeeper staff. That's a real supervisory responsibility, not just informal mentorship. Strong candidates will have experience giving direction to others and some patience for developing less experienced team members.

The on-call rotation is worth understanding clearly. You'll cover 24/7 emergency maintenance for seven consecutive days at a time, including evenings, weekends, and holidays. That's a real commitment and one of the honest challenges of any on-call maintenance role in residential property management.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED with at least three years of maintenance experience, ideally in property management
• Solid plumbing knowledge and hands-on electrical repair experience (appliances, circuits, fixtures)
• Rough and finish carpentry skills for both structural and cosmetic repairs
• Landscape and irrigation maintenance experience
• Basic OSHA safety knowledge
• Comfort with work order systems and basic computer documentation
• Valid California driver's license, reliable transportation, and current auto insurance
• Physical ability to lift up to 50 pounds regularly and work in all weather conditions
• Experience coaching or training others is a genuine plus here, not just a checkbox

Compensation and Context

The pay range is $25.00 to $28.13 per hour, based on experience. Benefits include health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, a 403(b) retirement plan, paid parental leave, FSA options for childcare, medical, and commuter expenses, an employee education reimbursement program, EAP, pet insurance, paid time off, company holidays, and wellness days.

Technicians who build a track record in affordable housing nonprofits often move into Lead Maintenance or Maintenance Supervisor roles as portfolios grow. MidPen's scale across Northern California means those advancement paths exist internally. The skills you develop here, multi-trade repairs, contractor coordination, team oversight, transfer cleanly to any residential maintenance career, market-rate or affordable.