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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