Athletic Equipment & Game-Day Operations Lead

Kansas City International; Danbury (CT); On-site; USD 47,136 - 57,611; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Western Connecticut State University is hiring an Athletic Equipment Manager in Danbury, CT. The 10-month, full-time role supports multiple varsity and junior varsity programs, including game-day management and supervision of student staff.

Responsibilities include equipment purchasing, inventory control, maintenance, and ensuring safety standards. The position requires a Bachelor’s degree and two years’ equipment maintenance experience, with weekend and holiday availability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree is required.
• Two (2) years’ experience in maintaining equipment is required.
• Strong interpersonal, communication & organizational skills; Must be willing to work weekends and early and/or late hours and holidays.
• Experience with Microsoft 365; Multi-lingual or bi-lingual candidates are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Assists in purchasing equipment and supplies for all individual athletic teams, while keeping a digital inventory system for athletic equipment.
• Maintains and repairs athletic equipment.
• Assists in arranging for reconditioning of equipment.
• Assists in ensuring that all equipment purchases and donations meet commonly accepted standards within the Connecticut State Colleges & Universities (CSCU) guidelines and for the quality, health, and safety of athletes.
• Assists in monitoring and assigning locker rooms for home and visiting student-athletes and athletic staff.
• Greets and escorts visiting teams and officials for all sports to their assigned rooms while showing them training facilities and fields/court.
• Assists in fittings of all protective equipment worn by athletes.
• May instruct student staff members on all aspects of the equipment room.
• Assists in all in-house laundry operations for athletic needs as well as University needs.
• Assists in bid specifications for athletic equipment purchases and works cooperatively with the Administrative Services department to coordinate equipment purchases.
• Assists the Director of Intercollegiate Athletics in preparing the annual equipment budget for all Intercollegiate Athletics.
• Assists with game management, which includes set up, running of, and break down of scheduled events.
• Schedule all equipment room personnel.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication

Organizational skills

Weekend/holidays flexibility

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft 365

Job description

Western Connecticut State University is hiring an Athletic Equipment Manager in Danbury, CT. The 10-month, full-time role supports multiple varsity and junior varsity programs, including game-day management and supervision of student staff.

Responsibilities include equipment purchasing, inventory control, maintenance, and ensuring safety standards. The position requires a Bachelor’s degree and two years’ equipment maintenance experience, with weekend and holiday availability.