Maintenance Helper

Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00am - 5:00pm (1-hour lunch)

Pay: $25.00 - 30.00/hour (depending on experience)

Location: Arlington, VA

Planned Companies’ clients’ properties are kept clean, secure, and welcoming with a variety of equipment requiring routine inspection, maintenance, and repair. To ensure our cleaning, security, and concierge teams provide the best service Planned Companies Maintenance Services (PMS) is hiring a Maintenance Technician to join the team.

• →Ensuring preventative maintenance of all mechanical, electrical, and plumbing equipment and repair of such equipment as required; contact outside contractor when required.
• →Checking boiler and hot water heaters for leaks and reporting to management.
• →Scheduling extermination procedures as necessary.
• →Maintaining social areas or amenities as needed.
• →Assuring walkways are clear and/or salted during inclement weather.
• →Inventorying mechanical/ maintenance supplies.
• →Troubleshooting tripped breakers, leaking pipes, and water intrusion.
• →Executing general repair of the building included but not limited to doors, filter changing, installation of floor covering, light carpentry.
• →Maintaining a log keeping and visible inspection of all operating equipment, including chiller, cooling tower, water heaters, pumps and fan coil units.
• →Inspecting rooftop exhaust fans, cooling tower, domestic water drives.
• →Ensuring trash removal and maintaining trash area are organized.
• →Replacing light fixtures, branch switches, receptacles, and sockets when necessary. 
• →Adjusting of locks and latches on doors, windows, and lockers
• →Removal and replacement of all blown light bulbs
• →Painting and plastering as required.
• →Maintaining daily records of work performed
• →Reporting necessary work to be done by outside mechanics, maintain a record when such work is completed.
• →Assisting building management with all projects and all other job duties as requested

• Minimum of 3+ years’ experience in a similar role.  
• Requires strong plumbing, electric and carpentry experience. 
• Must be able to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing, in order to understand work instructions, communicate with supervisors and team members, and follow safety procedures.
• Solid interpersonal skills, along with excellent communication skills. Bilingual is preferred.  
• Good listener and able to accurately transmit information.
• Reliable, highly organized, attention to detail, courteous, friendly, hardworking, and professional.
• Eager to learn and take on additional responsibilities. 
• Extremely dependable and reliable, must be flexible to work during emergency situations.