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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.
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.