Equipment manager

An equipment manager is an overseer of a fleet of equipment used by a business or organization to oversee, maintain, repair, and often procure or liquidate, an inventory of equipment. In sports, an equipment manager is a person who is in charge of a sports team's equipment. In professional and collegiate sports, this is usually a full-time job and includes transportation, laundry, repairs and regular service (such as sharpening of skates for ice hockey).

Sports equipment

See: Sports equipment#Various sports

Association football (soccer)

See: Kit (association football)#Equipment

In association football, the kit manager or kit man oversees the players' equipment.

Golf

See: Turf management#Golf courses

In golf, the equipment manager oversees the fleet of equipment used on the golf course for turf management. This may include:

• Power take-off Tractors
• Hydraulics or Belt (mechanical) driven Rotary mowers
• Bobcats
• Reel and Bedknife mowers(Hydraulic or belt driven)
• spray rigs
• Irrigation systems
• Fork lifts
• Front-end loaders
• Gator utility vehicles
• Chain saws
• Trimmers
• Sand rakers
• Stump grinders
• Golf carts
• Blowers
• Greens rollers
• Pressure washers

And numerous other pieces of equipment a Golf Course or the Turf Care industry employs.

The term has also been used less frequently as a synonym with "Fleet Manager" (fleet management).

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey equipment

External links

• Athletic Equipment Managers Association