Equipment Manager

Job Title: Equipment Manager

Reports to: Director of Grounds

FLSA Category: Exempt/Salary Position

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

Relocation: The club will assist with the 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, a 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 that offers 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 be 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, follow, and perform preventive maintenance programs.
• Maintain a stocked and orderly parts inventory, including having positive working relationships with suppliers and vendors.
• Perform fabrication, including 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 a complete and accurate record of equipment, liquids, parts, equipment conditions, repairs, and the 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, monitor costs and expenditures, identify variances, and recommend and implement corrective action as necessary.
• Assist in the evaluation, selection, and purchasing/leasing of new turf and/or landscape equipment.

Qualifications:

• Communicate professionally 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 their safety guidelines.
• Have a basic understanding of the game of golf and the 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.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $60,000.00 - $70,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Shift:

• Day shift

Experience:

• Automotive diagnostics: 1 year (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $60,000 - $70,000