An equipment manager is responsible for the procurement, maintenance, repair, inventory, transportation, storage, cleaning, and disposal of equipment used by a business or organization. They ensure that appropriate equipment is available and functional for specific tasks, both on-site and off-site. In sports, an equipment manager oversees the management of a team’s gear and supplies. In professional and collegiate sports, this is typically a full-time position involving equipment transportation, laundering, repairs, ensuring safety compliance, and

routine maintenance The technical meaning of maintenance involves functional checks, servicing, repairing or replacing of necessary devices, equipment, machinery, building infrastructure and supporting utilities in industrial, business, and residential installat ...

such as skate sharpening in ice hockey. The role supports

athlete An athlete is most commonly a person who competes in one or more sports involving physical strength, speed, power, or endurance. Sometimes, the word "athlete" is used to refer specifically to sport of athletics competitors, i.e. including track ...

s by maintaining the condition and readiness of their equipment.

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. According to Law 4 (Players' Equipment), the basic equipment required for all players consists of five items: a shirt (also known as a jersey), shorts, socks (also known as stockings), footwear, and shin pads.

Golf

golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various Golf club, clubs to hit a Golf ball, ball into a series of holes on a golf course, course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standa ...

, the equipment manager oversees the fleet of equipment used on the

golf course A golf course is the grounds on which the sport of golf is played. It consists of a series of holes, each consisting of a teeing ground, tee box, a #Fairway and rough, fairway, the #Fairway and rough, rough and other hazard (golf), hazards, and ...

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turf management Turf management or pitchcare describes the work needed to keep a pitch (sports field), sporting pitch ready for use. This article looks at the various types of sporting pitches and the type of challenges which they present. The skills needed ...

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Power take-off A power take-off or power takeoff (PTO) is one of several methods for taking power from a power source, such as a running engine, and power transmission#Mechanical power, transmitting it to an application such as an attached implement or separate ...

Tractor A tractor is an engineering vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a Trailer (vehicle), trailer or machinery such as that used in agriculture, mining or constructio ...

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Hydraulics Hydraulics () is a technology and applied science using engineering, chemistry, and other sciences involving the mechanical properties and use of liquids. At a very basic level, hydraulics is the liquid counterpart of pneumatics, which concer ...

Belt (mechanical) A belt is a loop of flexible material used to link two or more rotating shafts mechanically, most often parallel. Belts may be used as a source of motion, to transmit power efficiently or to track relative movement. Belts are looped over pull ...

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Rotary mower A rotary mower is a unit of powered machinery that uses a rotating blade or blades to cut vegetation. Use An American rotary lawnmower mechanic (b. 1927) when queried as to the first rotary mower he knew of - produced a picture of a machine mass ...

s * 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

In ice hockey, the equipment manager takes care of the players and coaches equipment needs by performing the following *Sharpening skates *Ordering equipment *Being prepared on the bench for in-game equipment malfunctions *Distributing practice gear such as jerseys and socks and pants

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