Associate Equipment Manager

Assist Head Equipment Manager in day to day operation of the Equipment Room. Ensure professional and efficient service to student-athletes, coaches, visiting teams, officials, vendors, faculty and staff. Ensure equipment is maintained for performance and particularly for safety.

This is a full-time, benefits eligible, hourly position with a hiring range of $19.92 - $24.40 per hour.

Core Responsibilities:

• Manage uniform and equipment fitting for practice and games for 31 varsity teams.
• Purchase and maintain inventory and record keeping for 31 varsity teams..
• Maintain protective equipment and skates for men’s and women’s ice hockey. When necessary, work with Sports Medicine to fabricate personalized equipment for protection or accommodation for injury.
• Collaborate with Equipment Room Manager to train and support student workers for home and traveling skate sharpening. Provide skate sharpening services for ice hockey teams when needed. Potential travel with ice hockey during post-season to fix equipment, particularly for safety purposes, and provide skate sharpening, and/or travel with football during the regular season to manage equipment needs, particularly for safety purposes.
• Work with Head Equipment Manager to ensure safety protocols for equipment are met for all contact sports, e.g. football, ice hockey, lacrosse. Safety checks must be done pre-season and then regularly throughout the season.
• Purchase, maintain, and tune sewing machines, skate sharpening machines, and heat press machine.
• Maintain uniforms with sewing, including fitting, alterations, and/or mending of torn practice or game uniforms, gear, or protective equipment.
• Must be responsive to time sensitive issues, particularly related to equipment needs for safety purposes. These issues may arise on nights or weekends and may demand immediate attention.

Requirements

• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment, while maintaining a detailed approach to work, particularly as it relates to safety protocols and safety equipment.
• Possesses a general knowledge of trade skills.
• Organizational skills to manage multiple tasks for 31 varsity teams and 700 student-athletes, often with time constraints related to practice and game schedules and overlapping seasons.
• Must possess excellent communication skills with a diverse range of constituencies including, students, coaches, faculty, and staff, often under pressure situations.
• Working knowledge of computers preferred in order to manage inventory.
• Willingness to engage in on-going professional development as industry standards change, particularly related to safety protocols and equipment.

Physical Demands and Working Conditions:

Work involves physical movements such as bending, twisting, and reaching. Must be able to lift up to 75 lbs, particularly when working with football or ice hockey. Must be able to stand for extended periods of time. Working conditions include loud machines, sharp instruments, dust, and chemicals. Willingness and ability to travel with teams, each away game for football and post-season for ice hockey.

Other:

An offer for this position is contingent upon successful completion of a criminal background check and references.

Benefits

As an employee of Middlebury College in Vermont, you will enjoy being part of a vibrant supportive community.

Middlebury offers its employees excellent compensation and competitive health, dental, life, disability, generous retirement matching, and vision benefits, and a generous time-away program - up to 34 days per year, increasing as the term of service lengthens. Employees are eligible for robust educational assistance programs. The result is a very high quality-of-life in a gorgeous setting. Middlebury Colleges offers its employees excellent compensation and other perks of employment including:

• MiddCard Privileges: access to athletic facilities, discounts at the college store, library privileges, and cultural and sporting events. Spouses or domestic partners are eligible to receive a card with the same privileges.
• Discounts on season passes at Middlebury College's Snow Bowl, the Ralph Myhre Golf Course and the Rikert Outdoor Center.
• Access to our Partner Inclusion Program that provides comprehensive support services to the spouses and partners of Middlebury employees.
• A full listing of our benefit offerings can be found on our website or click to see some of the other fun perks of working at Middlebury, whether in Middlebury, VT or Monterey, CA!

Middlebury College is an equal-opportunity employer where diversity, equity, and inclusion are core values. To this end, the College recruits talented and diverse faculty, staff, and students from across the United States and around the world. Middlebury College encourages applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, and members of other protected classes and historically underrepresented communities. The College also invites applications from individuals who demonstrate an ongoing commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.