Associate Equipment Manager

The Associate Equipment Manager assists Head Equipment Manager in day-to-day operation of the Equipment Room.   Ensuring professional and efficient service to student-athletes, coaches, visiting teams, officials, vendors, faculty and staff.  They will also ensure equipment is maintained for performance and particularly for safety. The anticipated start date for this position is the beginning of January.

This is a full time, benefits eligible, hourly position with a hiring range of $19.26-23.59 per hour.

Core Responsibilities:

• Manage uniform and equipment fitting for practice and games for 31 varsity teams.  
• Purchase, maintain 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, mending of torn practice or game uniforms or 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.  

• 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

• Involves physical movements such as bending, twisting, reaching.
• Must be able to lift up to 75lbs, 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:

Offer is contingent upon successful completion of a criminal background check.

As an employee of Middlebury College, you will enjoy being part of a vibrant supportive community. Middlebury Colleges offers its employees excellent compensation and competitive health, dental, life, disability, generous retirement matching, and vision benefits, Middlebury offers a generous time-away program - up to 34 days per year during the first two years of service, increasing as the term of service lengthens. Middlebury employees are eligible for robust educational assistance programs as well as free or reduced rates for cultural events and use of sporting facilities (including the College's golf course and Nordic and alpine ski areas). 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 discounts at cultural and sporting events. In addition, the card allows door access to certain campus buildings. Spouses or domestic partners of benefits-eligible employees are eligible to receive a Spouse/Partner card with the same privileges as the employee card (except door access).
• Discounts on season passes at Middlebury College 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 by following this web link: https://go.middlebury.edu/benefits
• Or click see some of the other fun perks of working at Middlebury, whether in Vermont or Monterey!

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.

Salary : $19 - $24