Maintenance Technician

Are you looking to be apart of a team that works to enhance the quality of others lives? If so, this position may be for you. The Tawaak Housing Association is an Urban Indigenous Housing Corporation building safe, healthy urban Aboriginal communities by providing affordable, suitable, quality housing.

Under the direction of the Maintenance Supervisor, and reporting to the Property Manager, the Maintenance Technician is responsible for daily maintenance requirements of the units administered by Tawaak Housing, ensuring they are maintained in a good state of repair. The primary responsibility of the Property Maintenance Technician is to perform quality maintenance functions and complete projects as directed by the Maintenance Supervisor.

Responsibilities

Respond to fire alarms, intrusion alarms, electrical failures, water leaks, property damage etc.

Provide vacant unit turnover duties such as painting, installing flooring, unit cleaning, appliance cleaning, removal of furniture and debris etc.

Responding, recording and communicating tenant inquires and maintenance requests

Ensuring building safety, using personal judgement or following the guidelines provided by the employer

Coordinating access to buildings on behalf of tenant and third party contractor activities

Complete property maintenance and janitorial services ensuring a high level of cleanliness, organization and safety

Complete general maintenance duties on buildings such as but not limited to:

Cleaning Grounds work

Plumbing Carpentry Painting Moving  appliances

General Labour Assist the Property Management team with various requests as needed

Qualifications

Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail

Effective organizational and time management abilities ensuring deadlines are consistently met Prior experience in the Maintenance field is considered an asset

Must possess a valid driver's licence and be willing to use a personal vehicle for work

About Tawaak Housing Association

Tawaak Housing Association is one of many Urban Native Housing Corporations that sprung up in most major Canadian cities since the early 1970's in response to a growing need for a separate Aboriginal housing program within the over all framework of the Canadian social housing delivery system. Given existing patterns of societal actions (discrimination and exclusion) coupled with the Aboriginal community's education and employment levels (lower than the non-Aboriginal population in both), was a recognition that the core housing needs of an urban Aboriginal population, migrating from rural areas and reserves, could be better served by separate and distinct Aboriginal housing groups.

Formed in 1981, Tawaak Housing Association is a private non-profit housing corporation that owns, operates and delivers socially assisted rental housing in six urban areas of Nova Scotia. The mandate of the housing corporation is to provide suitable, adequate and affordable housing to Aboriginal peoples of low to moderate income who reside in urban areas of the province, who cannot attain housing through the regular housing market.

Assisted by both the Federal Government and the Government of Nova Scotia, Tawaak's portfolio consists of fifty-four properties comprising of one hundred and forty-five units supported under the Urban Native Housing Program and the Private non-profit housing program. Approximately eighty-two percent of the portfolio is located in the urban centers of Halifax and Dartmouth, while the remainder are located in Sydney, Truro, Antigonish, Liverpool and Bridgewater.

Other Information

Comprehensive health and dental benefits

Employer RRSP plan 9% matching

Continuing education support

Opportunity for internal career growth

Bonus pay Overtime pay Commuter benefits

Dental care Extended health care

Life insurance

On-site parking

Paid time offRRSP match

Tuition reimbursement

Vision care