Maintenance Technician (Piedmont Raleigh Apartments)

It's 7:15 a.m. on a Monday and you're already walking the grounds at The Piedmont Raleigh, checking for overnight issues before residents head to work. By 8:00, you've logged two service requests and flagged a lighting concern near the parking area for the Service Manager. That's the rhythm of this role.

The Work

Van Metre is hiring a Maintenance Technician at The Piedmont Raleigh, a residential community in Raleigh, NC. Reporting to both the Property Manager and Service Manager, you'll carry a wide scope of day-to-day responsibility: completing resident service requests, performing unit turns on vacant apartments, running preventative maintenance schedules, and keeping the property's curb appeal sharp through daily ground walks. You'll also assist with managing inventory in the maintenance storage areas, ensuring the team has the materials it needs for both routine work and turns without over-ordering.

After-hours emergency coverage is part of the job. The property operates 24/7, and the maintenance team rotates to support that. Applicants should go in clear-eyed about what that means in practice: occasional late calls, weekend rotations, and being the person a resident depends on when something goes wrong at an inconvenient hour.

Safety accountability runs through everything. You'll follow OSHA and building standards, use proper protective equipment as tasks require, and flag liability or safety concerns to management as soon as you spot them. Accurate recordkeeping on completed work is also expected, not optional.

What Van Metre Is Looking For

• 1 to 2 years of hands-on maintenance experience, or equivalent formal training
• Working knowledge of appliance, electrical, and plumbing repair
• Basic HVAC and electrical circuitry understanding
• Universal CFC Certification (preferred)
• Current familiarity with OSHA, building codes, and safety standards
• Ability to supply and maintain your own basic tool set
• Valid driver's license
• Availability for weekend work and after-hours emergency rotation

Strong candidates in this role tend to be the ones who treat the daily property walk as a real inspection rather than a formality. Catching a small plumbing drip before it becomes a ceiling issue, or noticing a tripping hazard before a resident does, is the kind of proactive awareness that separates a solid technician from a reactive one. In a market like Raleigh, where apartment inventory has grown considerably over the past several years, resident retention depends heavily on maintenance responsiveness and unit condition. That makes this position more consequential to NOI than it might look on paper.

Compensation for this role runs between $23.00 and $25.00 per hour based on experience, with up to $5,000 in annual bonus potential. Van Metre's benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, a company-matched 401(k), tuition reimbursement, company-paid certifications, an annual wellness reimbursement, and a notably generous paid time off structure that includes holidays, personal days, a birthday day off, and winter break. Rental discounts through Van Metre communities are also available to employees.