Quartermaster

2537 is a very large team and must maintain a huge and expensive inventory of equipment and parts.

The quartermaster is responsible for:

• Team meetings:
  • Initial setup of equipment (closet opening, organization of materials in shop)
  • Cleanup at end of meeting (tracking time required, adjusting/improving process)
• Tracking equipment that leaves the school (students or mentors taking equipment home)
• Working with Pit Lead to track what goes to and comes back from competition
• Organizing storage (closet, outdoor container, etc.)
  • Everything labeled and contained
  • Notify lead mentors of students or mentors are chronically destroying order
• Ensure school storage rules are followed
  • Clear access to fuse panel
  • Clear access to alarm panel
  • Doors accessible and can be opened (e.g. nothing leaning on the roll-up door)
• Purchasing
  • Identifying and maintaining list of preferred vendors on wiki
  • Finding best sources and prices for commonly used materials
  • Planning purchases in advance when possible and can lower costs
  • Aggregating purchase requests from students and submitting to lead/purchasing mentor
  • Tracking costs of robot materials purchased
• Developing and refining processes to improve purchasing and storage