Maintenance Recruitment Manager

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We are seeking a Maintenance Recruitment Manager to lead the recruitment of high-quality maintenance professionals across a multifamily housing portfolio. This role is responsible for sourcing, screening, interviewing, and hiring maintenance team members, including Maintenance Supervisors, Maintenance Technicians, Make-Ready Technicians, and Groundskeepers. The ideal candidate has previous hands‑on apartment maintenance experience, allowing them to effectively assess technical skills, certifications, and cultural fit.

This is a high-impact role responsible for building and strengthening KPG’s maintenance talent pipeline across the portfolio. The Maintenance Recruitment Manager will serve as a subject‑matter expert in maintenance talent acquisition, partnering directly with Operations and HR leadership to ensure properties have the skilled maintenance professionals needed to deliver exceptional resident experiences, maintain physical assets, and achieve operational goals

• Manage responsibilities related to hiring maintenance personnel in a manner that supports current & future staffing needs.
• Creates processes that foster timely movement of recruiting stages to decrease the time frame to fill positions
• Meets weekly with Director of Property Maintenance and SVP of Property Management to prioritize and rank by positions based on portfolio needs.
• Directly recruits, interviews, and hires maintenance personnel for at least 50%+ of open maintenance positions across the portfolio.
• Works with KPG Recruiters to assign remaining positions to be sourced by assigned Talent Acquisition Partners.
• Develop and manage proactive recruiting strategies using job boards, industry networks, trade schools, referrals, and career fairs, industry networking events, etc.
• Develop and maintain relationships with technical schools, trade programs, HVAC programs, community organizations, military transition programs, and industry associations to establish sustainable maintenance talent pipelines.
• Develop creative approaches to attract experienced maintenance professionals, including passive candidates who are not actively seeking employment.
• Screens candidates for technical knowledge, troubleshooting ability, customer service skills, and safety awareness.
• Partners with Regional Managers, Maintenance Supervisors, and Corporate Maintenance Team to understand staffing needs, hiring priorities, property conditions and role expectations.
• Coordinates and conducts interviews and makes candidates aware of the offers of verbal employment.
• Works with KPG Talent Acquisition Partners (TAPs) to complete background checks, draft written employment offers, and to conduct onboarding activities.
• Builds and maintains a pipeline of qualified maintenance professionals for current and future openings.
• Works with SVP of HR to track recruiting metrics to include, time-to-fill, candidate quality, and hiring effectiveness.
• Promote the company's culture and career opportunities to attract top maintenance talent.
• Analyze maintenance staffing trends, turnover, market availability, compensation, and hiring challenges to proactively identify workforce needs and recommend solutions.
• Partner with HR and Operations to identify opportunities to develop entry‑level maintenance talent into skilled technicians through training, mentorship, and certification programs.
• Help develop a maintenance career path that demonstrates opportunities for advancement from Ground keeper to Maintenance Tech, Maintenance Supervisor and other leadership roles.
• Travel to properties in portfolio to understand maintenance needs. Travel is 20%-30% of the time.

• Previous hands‑on experience in multifamily apartment maintenance required, Minimum 5 years’ experience…