Posted 3 months ago
Property caretaker (Live-in)
@ Akelius
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Akelius is hiring a live-in property caretaker to reside onsite at a residential building and maintain the property to company standards, assisting the property manager. The work covers on-call inspections, repairs, cleaning, landscaping, emergency response and garbage handling, with a salary of $30,000 to $35,000 per year and an apartment provided.
Pay:
$30,000–$35,000 a year
Responsibilities:
- Inspect the property and respond to service requests and emergencies
- Clean and maintain common areas and landscaping
- Test fire alarms and generators and keep fire safety logs
- Manage garbage, recycling and organics bins
- Secure the property and control master and vacant suite keys
Requirements summary:
- Valid driver's licence and access to a vehicle
- At least one year of building and mechanical maintenance experience
- Knowledge of hand and power tools
- Clean driving record
- Strong communication and problem solving skills
Tools & skills
Benefits mentioned
Source and dates
Employer career site / ATS feed · jazzhr
- Employer posting date
- 2026-08-13
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-09
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-16
These dates describe the source record, not a live verification that the employer is still hiring. Check the original posting.
Job details
| Seniority | Entry level |
| Department | Administrative |
| Experience | 1+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Schedule | weekends |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Client sites, Outdoors |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical high · computer low |
| Languages | English |
| Driver’s licence | required, own vehicle |
| Background checks | driving record |
| Perks mentioned | Retirement plan, Wellness, Paid training |
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Akelius
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Full company description
Akelius is a residential real estate company. The company owns twenty thousand rental apartments in the metropolitan cities New York, Boston, Washington, Austin, Toronto, Montreal, Québec City, Ottawa, Paris and London. Akelius focuses on locations with a high quality of life, which means close to green space, parks, and with efficient transportation systems and low crime rate. Akelius invests in digitalization to have the best digital tools in residential real estate. Self-developed applications are tailored to Akelius’ needs as a global company. The best digital tools drive the growth of the business and enable better living for the Akelius’ tenants. The company is dedicated to being sustainable and honorable. Akelius acts decently and honestly with all its stakeholders, such as tenants, employees, contractors, the community. To ensure that the company has the best educated staff in the real estate industry, all employees receive internally developed training relevant to their roles. The company’s main ultimate owner is the Akelius Foundation, a charitable foundation. Akelius Foundation is one the world’s largest donors to SOS Children’s Villages.
- LinkedIn followers
- 44,789
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 473
- Reported office locations
- Tegnérgatan 2A, Stockholm, Stockholm County 11358, SE
- Business categories
- Small and Medium Businesses
- Language Learning
- Online Portals
- Education
- Real Estate
- E-Learning
- Other recorded names
- Akelius
- Akelius Residential Property AB
- Specialties
- construction
- apartments
- education
- technology
- IT
- real estate
- upgrading
- charity
- residential properties
- renovating
- asset management
- project leader
- letting
- product
- kitchen planner
- leasing
- renting
- and manager
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- No
- Reported total investment
- 393,043,943
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
Akelius is a residential real estate company. The company owns twenty thousand rental apartments in the metropolitan cities New York, Boston, Washington, Austin, Toronto, Montreal, Québec City, Ottawa, Paris and London. Akelius focuses on locations with a high quality of life, which means close to green space, parks, and with efficient transportation systems and low crime rate. Akelius invests in digitalization to…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Real Estate |
| Company size | 501-1,000 employees |
| Headquarters | Stockholm, Stockholm County |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 1994 |
| Specialties | constructionapartmentseducationtechnologyITreal estateupgradingcharityresidential propertiesrenovating |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 13 |
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property caretaker (live-in)
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job description
Akelius is seeking a property caretaker to live at and maintain a residential property within the portfolio.This is a backfill position.
The property caretaker will live onsite and assist the property manager with maintaining the property and living conditions to Akelius’ standards.
The successful candidate will be a great communicator.
They will have strong time management and problem solving skills.
Apartment accommodations will provided in a desirable location.
- be on-call for inspecting and for addressing service requests
- clean and maintain building common areas
- assist the property manager to keep present suitable residents and to attract a high caliber of new residents
- perform landscaping duties
- address common area deficiencies by making repairs or escalating the matter to the Property Manager
- complete regular scheduled inspections
- inspect all vacant units once weekly to ensure units is in good showing condition
- respond to all emergencies such as fire, flood, no heat, elevator failure, power failure and any other such problem that could be termed as emergency
- secure the property by controlling master keys and the keys of all vacant suites
- test all fire alarms and emergency generators and carry out all inspections and update all log books required for fire safety
- inspect sidewalk and driveway conditions at a minimum three times a day and maintaining a daily snow log form during the winter season
- sort and take out garbage, recycling and organics
- take the bins outside for pick up by hand or with tools like bin tugs or tractors
- care/maintenance for the bins and garbage rooms including on weekends
- other duties as assigned
who you are
- have a valid driver’s license and access to vehicle
- one plus years of experience in building and mechanical maintenance repair, or an acceptable equivalent combination of education and experience
- knowledge in using hand and power tools
- clean driving record
- problem solving- ownership of responsibilities , able to anticipate and address issues in emergency situations
- great communication skills – able to interact with tenants, people focused, positive and stay professional
- time management – organized, set priorities, meet daily targets and deadlines
Akelius offers
- annual salary range: $30,000 to $35,000
- competitive benefits
- 4% RRSP match
- annual fitness benefit
- internal industry specific education and training
- social events throughout the year
- company summit every second year
how to apply
Apply with a copy of your resume.about Akelius
Akelius acquires, upgrades, and manages residential properties.
Akelius owns rental apartments in the metropolitan cities in New York, Boston, Washington D.C., Montreal, Quebec City, Ottawa, Toronto, London, and Paris.
We do not use artificial intelligence (AI) or automated decision-making tools to screen, assess, or select candidates for this role. All applications are reviewed by our team.
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