Shop Captains

What is a Shop Captain and a Shop Manager?

A Shop Captain is a volunteer leader that takes responsibility for the operations of a smaller area, or shop, of the Makerspace. Shop captains work as a team. The Shop Manager is an existing Shop Captain who takes responsibility for setting meetings and distributing information to Shop Captains.

Who are the current shop captains?

• Shop Manager
  • Todd Kirk

• 3D Printing
  • Bryan Overbey
  • Kevin Huber
• Automotive Repair
  • Andrew Lewis
  • Cody Hall
• Ceramics
  • Judith Kenigson Kristy
  • Bryan Vance
• Electronics
  • Neif
• Metal Shop
  • Tim Krentz
  • ROLE NEEDED
• Art Studio
  • Mandy Taylor
• Textiles Studio
  • Stephanie Dauenhauer
• Wood Shop
  • Nate Lelek
• CNC Shop
  • Rye Gewalt

Roles and Responsibilities

Shop captains are the individuals who are responsible for the following:

Facilities & Maintenance Duties

• Ensuring equipment is maintained
• Ensuring consumables are replenished on a regular basis (like welding wire, for example)
• Prioritizing shop safety and creating/posting signage in the shop with policies
• Establishing shop policies and sharing them with members and shop users
• Ensuring that proper safety equipment is available.
• Keeping all shop-related information up to date on this Wiki
• Communicating problems or issues to the Executive Director.

Educational Duties

• Making sure that members using the shops have access to resources to learn to safely operate the tools
• Leading shop orientations if no other teacher is available
• Helping find qualified instructors to teach workshops and to mentor members
• Making sure that there are classes and programming scheduled regularly in their shop
• Planning for the growth and improvement of the shop

Shop Growth Duties

• Helping find better tools through donations
• Being a point of communication with donors that provide tools or resources for their shop
• Engaging members in growing and improving their shop

Shop Manager Roles and Responsibilities

In addition to any regular shop duties, the Shop Manager is responsible for

• Scheduling regular shop captain meetings
• Helping onboard new shop captains
• Checking your corresponding Shop Channel on Slack each day to keep abreast of news and needs