Senior Maintenance Supervisor -… at Redwood Housing · Huntsville

Who We Are

Redwood Communities, Inc. (“Redwood Communities”), an affiliate of Redwood Housing, is a multifamily property management organization that manages affordable housing communities throughout the country. To date, Redwood Communities has assembled a best-in-class team that currently manages a growing portfolio of properties and has built strong working relationships with government agencies and leading non-profit organizations to raise the standard of living for our communities.

Benefits

• Exceptional medical benefits: We cover more than 90% of medical premiums, and employees have the option of a 100% employer-paid HSA medical plan.
• 100% company paid dental and vision benefits for employee coverage.
• Healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
• Company paid life insurance, AD&D
• Best-in-class voluntary insurance benefits.
• Pre-tax and Roth 401(k) programs with a company match equal to 100% of the first 6% contributed by the employee.
• Employee assistance program (EAP) with 24/7 counseling services.
• 3 weeks of paid time off each year.
• 12 paid holidays each year & 2 floating holidays.

About the Position

The Senior Maintenance Supervisor leads daily maintenance operations across two or more assigned properties and/or complex single sites. While the Senior/Community Manager remains accountable for each community’s overall performance, this role ensures timely maintenance execution, supports property readiness, and serves as the senior technical and emergency-response resource.

Schedule: Monday-Friday 8am-5pm

Pay Details: $29-31hr

Location: Supervisor over both Russel Erskine Maintenance and Mayfair Towers Maintenance.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assess property condition, safety, work-order and make-ready performance, preventive maintenance, staffing, building systems, and unresolved risks through regular site walks.

• Supervise and assign work to maintenance employees at assigned properties. Provide leadership, coaching, technical guidance, and support to Maintenance Supervisors and Technicians. Partner with Community Managers and regional leadership on performance expectations, staffing, training, and concerns.

• Serve as the senior technical resource for complex troubleshooting, building-system issues, repair planning, and repair-versus-replacement recommendations.

• Support readiness for NSPIRE, HUD, lender, insurance, municipal, and internal inspections. Prioritize, document, escalate, correct, and verify life-safety, habitability, and urgent system deficiencies.

• Implement and verify preventive maintenance programs across assigned properties. Follow up on missed work, recurring equipment issues, and incomplete documentation.

• Complete unit turns, work orders, and emergency repairs alongside the team as needed.

• Support consistent purchasing and inventory practices to ensure critical parts, tools, and materials are available.

• Ensure employees follow applicable workplace safety requirements, including proper use of personal protective equipment, hazard communication, ladder safety, electrical safety, and lockout/tagout procedures. Immediately report unsafe conditions.

• Coordinate personnel, tools, equipment, supplies, and vendors across properties based on emergencies, workload, inspections, staffing gaps, and unit-turn priorities.

• 5+ years of progressive multifamily maintenance experience, including Maintenance Supervisor experience and multi-site maintenance operations.

• Strong knowledge of plumbing, electrical, HVAC, appliances, unit turns, preventive maintenance, building systems, life-safety systems, fire alarms, sprinklers, access control, emergency generators, and emergency response.

• Experience managing work orders and make-ready activity in property management software.

• EPA 608 Universal Certification preferred.

• Experience preparing properties for NSPIRE, HUD, Tax Credit, lender, municipal, or other agency inspections preferred.

• Valid driver’s license required.

• Must be 18 years of age or older.

• Successful completion of background check required.

• Must be legally qualified to work in the U.S. meeting I-9 guidelines.

Redwood Communities is an Equal Opportunity Employer.