Equipment technician
Fit, repair and refurbish chairs and adaptive gear.
Help assess and maintain the gear athletes use. Work within your training and experience, with clear limits around fitting, repairs, and safety.
The work
- Repairs. Wheels, bearings, camber, straps, welds, tyres.
- Fitting, which decides whether an athlete can actually use the chair.
- Assessing donated gear honestly, including what is not safe to put anybody in.
Your first month
- Look at what we and the programs we support have sitting unused, and tell us what is salvageable.
- Agree a suitable assessment or repair within your qualifications.
Who it suits
- You work on wheelchairs, bikes, or anything mechanical and precise.
- You have fitted sport chairs, which almost nobody has.
Scope, supervision, and any required qualifications are agreed before work begins.
Not this
- Prescribing or modifying a daily-use medical wheelchair. That is a clinician’s job.
- Certifying equipment as safe in any formal sense.
Well maintained equipment helps athletes keep playing.
Adapt To Life expands access to adaptive sports so athletes can find their place. We bring people and opportunities together and build the support around participation. Read our story
Equipment technician.
Start with your name and email. We’ll talk through the work, timing, and any screening or credentials before you begin.
Unpaid volunteer role, and no employment relationship. Volunteer time is not a tax-deductible gift, though out-of-pocket expenses sometimes are. Adapt To Life is a recognized 501(c)(3), EIN 41-3213344.