Maintenance Technician
Work with your hands, stay on the go, and help residents as you use and learn skills as a carpenter, electrician, plumber, HVAC technician, and more!
Love helping people and working with a team? Employers provide on-the-job training for maintenance skills and hire applicants who have a positive attitude. Learn more about whether this is the perfect career for you.
Work with your hands, stay on the move, solve people’s problems, never get bored, and never stop learning. As a maintenance technician in the apartment industry, you’ll prepare homes for new residents, make repairs for people already living there, and perform upkeep to make the community the best it can be.
This job and career path provide advantages you can’t always find elsewhere, even in other maintenance jobs:
Range of work and knowledge: You’ll be trained and called on to fix problems with plumbing, electricity, heating, cooling, locks, carpentry, and more.
Variety: No two days are alike. You’ll have different tasks in different apartments, meeting and helping different people.
Full-time, year-round work: You won’t experience seasonal lulls, the way you might as an HVAC contractor or other maintenance specialist.
Personal interaction: You’ll get to know the people you are helping in the community, and they’ll be thankful for what you do.
A maintenance technician job is good for self-motivated problem-solvers who are eager to learn, and may be especially suited to someone with military, construction, contracting, or home repair experience — or technical school training. Stick with it and you could become a regional maintenance manager for a portfolio of communities!
$50,259
Average Salary Range for a Maintenance Technician in Denver
The average maintenance technician makes over $21/hour and up to an additional $1,100/month in performance bonuses and commissions.
(2023 Metro Denver Multifamily Compensation Report, Apartment Association of Metro Denver)
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11,000 new jobs created every year.
Projected demand for 4.6 million new apartments by 2030.
Demand grows consistently – even during a recession.
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Health insurance, 401k retirement plan, and life insurance.
Paid holidays, vacation, and sick leave.
May include rent reduction and the ability to work from home.
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Companies typically promote from within.
Companies offer continuing education opportunities.
Companies may offer tuition assistance.
““As a maintenance technician, you really make a difference in a resident’s life.””
