Braintree, MA According to The Peabody Companies, a group of award-winning property management and real estate firms, Hector Castro has been promoted to facilities manager.

In this role, his responsibilities include training and mentoring on-site maintenance superintendents and technical personnel, providing advice and support to the director of portfolio operations and senior managers in the area of vendor contracting and management, in addition to other maintenance and repair duties.

Castro joined the Peabody Companies in February of 2004. In 2018 he was named Maintenance Professional of the Year by the New England Affordable Housing Management Association.

“Hector takes enormous pride in ensuring that our properties are maintained to the highest degree,” said Mark Regan, director of facilities with the Peabody Companies. “Congratulations are extended for his well-deserved promotion to facilities manager.”