Equipment/Shop Manager

Job Title:                 Equipment Manager

Reports to:              Director of Grounds

FLSA Category:     Exempt/Salary Position

Compensation:       $60,000 to $70,000 Base Salary

Relocation:             Club will assist with relocation

Location:                 Abbey Springs on Lake Geneva

                                 One Country Club Drive

                                 Fontana, Wisconsin 53125

 

About the Club:

Abbey Springs is a unique beach, boat and golf community located on the southwestern shores of Geneva Lake in Fontana, Wisconsin.  Founded in 1971, Abbey Springs is a private community offering premier leisure and recreational activities unlike any other community in the Midwest.  Residents enjoy an exclusive private club experience, including a championship golf course, with a 4.5 out of 5 star rating by Golf Digest Magazine, a fitness center, indoor and outdoor pools, lakefront beach with swim piers, Har-Tru tennis courts and a full-service marina.  The golf course is meticulously maintained with 007 bent-grass greens and new sand bunkers with Billy Bunker drainage providing a pristine layout offering players of all levels a challenging and rewarding game. 

For more information on the Club, please visit https://www.abbeysprings.org/.

 

Position Summary:

The Equipment Manager will be responsible for all equipment maintenance and repair, parts and inventory and maintaining a safe, clean and organized work environment. The Equipment Manager will hands-on, working on reel mowers, rotary motors, small engines and diesel engines. 

 

Essential Job Functions:

·      Maintain, diagnose and repair all equipment in the fleet, including parts fabrication.

·      Develop and follow and perform preventive maintenance program. 

·      Maintain a stocked and orderly parts inventory, including having positive working relationships with suppliers and vendors.  

·      Perform fabrication, including any cutting, folding, casting, forging, machining, shearing, punching, stamping or welding.         

·      Perform and ensure all health, safety and environmental regulations are known, understood and practiced, including proper disposal of waste oils, tires, etc.

·      Establish and adjust daily, weekly and monthly repair and maintenance schedules based on equipment requirements and course maintenance schedule.

·      Establish and maintain complete set of accurate records for equipment, liquids, parts, equipment conditions, repairs and costs of repairs and preventive maintenance.

·      Establish and maintain an organized, clean and safe shop. 

·      Perform daily course checks to ensure cut quality and proper operation of equipment.

·      Prepare, recommend and manage the equipment budget, monitoring cost and expenditures and identifying variances and recommending and implementing corrective action as necessary.

·      Assist in the evaluation, selection and purchasing/leasing new turf and/or landscape equipment.

Qualifications:

·      Communicate on a professional level with staff, vendors, suppliers, members, and guests.

·      Understand turf equipment, including cutting unit set-up, hydraulics, electrical theory, diagnostics, combustion engines and welding. 

·      Ability to fabricate parts, including cutting, folding, casting, forging, machining, shearing, punching, stamping or welding.            

·      Ability to read and follow manuals, understand preventive maintenance requirements and schedules and repair equipment.

·      Know and have the ability to utilize various trade tools and the safety guidelines of their use.

·      Have a basic understanding of the game of golf and effects turf equipment has on play-ability.

·      Ability to utilize computer software systems such as a purchase order system, excel, word, preventive maintenance software.

·      Have trade school or formal education or certifications in mechanical, electrical, related programs or equivalent experience.

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