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Responsible for the overall budget of the equipment room.  Manage the procurement of the equipment and uniforms for 17 sports including the Cheerleading and Dance teams.

Prepare, Manage and make decisions for operating expenses including team equipment procurement, laundry, equipment maintenance, repair, and storage.

Responsible for researching, evaluating and ordering equipment, uniforms and supplies from approved vendors.

Ensuring compliance with university purchasing policies and branding. Interpreting guidelines of NCAA and MIAA policies, regarding equipment and uniforms as well as health and safety of our 525 athletes.  

Manage and ensure all protective equipment (helmets, pads etc.) meets NCAA safety standards as well as the NOCSAE protocols and are properly fitted and reconditioned as needed.  Arrange professional reconditioning when required.

Work together with Assistant Athletic Director - Internal Operations to ensure purchases are within the overall departmental budget.

Provide Professional Support for all aspects of football related to equipment and apparel.  For pre-season practices (August - prior to classes starting), regular practices , home and away competitions (August - November/December) and Spring Football (mid March - Mid April) prepare and transport equipment.  Pack athletic teams for travel to away contest and coordinate transportation of apparel and equipment for off site competitions.  Required to have professional tool kit for helmet and shoulder pad repairs per training and certification protocols.  

Set up Coaches Communication Headsets for home and away games. 

Manage practice and game day operation, including sideline set up, uniform distribution, and post-practice/post-game breakdown and laundry.

Provide professional input regarding equipment issues.

Perform or coordinate, repairs, cleaning and maintenace of equipment.

Ensure compliance with all NCAA and MIAA rules in dealing with equipment operation.

Work with input from the head coaches in procurement activities to ensure necessary stock levels. 

Ensuring that all uniforms meet the required criteria of UNK, MIAA and the NCAA.

Establish and maintain effective inventory controls using the Helmet Tracker and other inventory systems for all UNK Athletic Sports Teams.  Keep detailed records of all inventory (protective equipment, apparel, footwear, accessories use, return and purchase.

Checks in returned Athletic Equipment for inventory accuracy.  Records tracking of equipment issues to ensure end of season return.

Reconcile all shipping and receiving activities.

Decides if equipment should be replaced or refurbished.

Reconciles vendor billings with goods received to ensure all items ordered have been received for proper inventory controls.

 Work with Athletic Director and Assistant Athletic Director - Internal Operations to ensure timely and accurate data.

Plan and coordinate the efforts of assigned team staff and student employees to meet the equipment needs of 17 varsity sports programs as well as the Cheerleading and Dance Teams.

Prepare and plan all aspects of equipment operations prior to the start of the academic year and each sport season.

Manages athletics equipment operations programs, including team equipment, apparel purchasing and inventory control.  

Manage issuance, collection, laundering, storage and retrieval of athletic equipment and uniforms for all sports programs.

Determine and coordinate equipment set up for practices, home games and away contests, including packing travel trunks and preparing locker rooms.  Must work evenings, weekends and holidays and travel with the football team.

Ensures efficient daily operations and provides high-quality service to athletic program.

Determine proper fitting and adjusting of protective equipment for injured athletes.

Hiring and supervision of a team of student employees (7-10) in performance of athletic equipment duties.

Determine and coordinate the work of equipment room student employees to ensure that the needs of coaches, student-athletes, and staff are met on a daily basis for practices, games, team travel, laundry and equipment.  

Determine the student employee work schedule and approve weekly hours submitted by the student employees. 

Provide direction and guidance to the team of student employees in set up and tear down for practice and games.

Provide direction and guidance to the team of equipment room student employees to ensure that the needs of the coaches, student-athletes, and staff are met on a daily basis in regards to practices, games, team travel and other football related duties so that if the Equipment Manager is out of the office, the students can continue to run the equipment room operations in his absence.

Manage laundry services for all practice gear and uniforms for student-athletes.

Set up locker rooms for home games and ensure that all student-athletes uniforms and any accessories needed for games. 

Distribution of practice and game apparel and ensure that attention has been given to adequate stain removal and uniform repair.

Train staff in maintaining proper laundry procedures. Supervise and schedule maintenance of laundry machinery.

Determines vendors for laundry supplies and for repairs or purchases of the washers and dryers.

Responsible for developing procedures for equipment fitting, safety and inventory control. 

Responsible for communicating policies and objectives of equipment management to student workers, assigned team staff and other staff.

Ensure the student employees are educated in proper equipment usage, cleaning, repairs, laundering, storage.

Communicate with SID regarding rosters and unform distribution to ensure that the Athletic Department Website and game day programs are accurate.

Foster, build and maintain relationships with coaches, staff and administration. Provide first class experience and high level of service to all student athletes.  Work with coaches and administration to ensure all Equipment Service needs are met.

Use the Team Works app to communicate with all athletes regarding sizes of apparel etc.

Attend department meetings.

Establish and maintain effective relationships with contracted vendors (BSN, Moonlight Embroidery, Personal Touches).  Create mock ups of design options working with approved vendors.

Assist with Taraflex Floor installations as needed.

Clean glass backboards in Health and Sports Center during basketball season.

Requires the ability to utilize advance information within the field of Equipment Management and Laundry Operations. Possesses the ability to assess/analyze situations and make adjustments to achieve desired objectives.

Requires interpretation, discretion and judgement based on standard operating policies and procedures within the Equipment Management field, UNK, MIAA and the NCAA.

Actions and decisions have a significant impact on the short term performance of the program and exert an impact to the long term success of the athletic department.

Very quickly determined

47,380.00

Actions and decisions have a significant impact on the short term performance of the program and exert an impact to the long term success of the athletic department.

UNK Faculty, Staff and Students, donors, fans, members of the MIAA and the NCAA.

This position exercises direct supervision over student and temporary employees in the Equipment Room. This position receives direct supervision from the Associate Athletic Director - Sports Medicine.

Yes

Temporary/ On-Call,Students

This position exercises direct supervision over student and temporary employees in the EquipmentRoom

Office,Outdoors,Animal Facilities

Operation of a computer mouse with their dominant hand. (Usually right).