The Technician's Path

Create your account, then verify your email first

Register with your email — registration is open, no invite code needed. Then open the verification email and click the link before anything else: listing yourself, posting in Community, and selling gear all require a verified address, so one click now saves three dead ends later. Set your name, avatar, units, and — if it helps — the dyslexia-friendly reading font under Profile.

Check the Industry Jobs board

Industry Jobs is the rink industry's hiring page: full-time and permanent openings posted by rinks, applied to right on the page — no fees and no recruiter cut. Reading it needs no account at all, so share any posting with a colleague who has never heard of Icewright; applying takes the free one you made in step 1, which is what tells the rink you are a real person at an address that reaches you. Temporary work lives one step over: coverage requests ("need a CIT the weekend of Aug 8") sit on the Contractors page, and once you're listed (next step), matching requests and openings email you automatically.

List yourself on the Contractors Network — do this early

On the Contractors page, create your listing: name, a one-line headline, your ZIP and how far you'll travel, day rates, and your USIR credentials and courses. Those are your own statement and the app says so — Icewright does not check them and does not claim to. Upload your certificates if you like: they stay private, and a rink that connects to you can open them and confirm the ticket with whoever issued it. Moonlighting past a day employer? Discreet mode lists you anonymously ("CIT, 40 miles from 16801"), connecting is double-opt-in, and a block list keeps chosen employers from ever seeing you. Browsing the network is free for everyone signed in; rinks pay to reveal your contact info — never you.

Try the technician's toolkit on a practice rink

From the Dashboard, create a rink (pick any drill-point layout), enter one round of depth readings, and hit Generate topograph — the contour map of your ice. The Painting Reference (USA Hockey + IIHF, dimensioned, with the paint calculator) and the Ice-In / Ice-Out checklists are free and printable; the maintenance, resurfacer, and ice-plant logs give you the same paper-shaped record-keeping the operators use.

Covered by your free Pro year: the animated season video, downloads, thin-spot alerts and ice analytics, and Record Depth Readings — one point at a time, offline-capable, by keypad, Bluetooth, or photo.

Join the Community

Community is seven tabs: Discussion, Files (the printable guides, the front-desk cheat sheet, and nine 15-second how-to videos), the Gallery of shared topographs, Live Chat (a real-time bridge to the ice-tech Discord), Games — the Rink Grand Prix, where you drive the resurfacer on real rink geometry for the leaderboard — industry training events, and the Gear Exchange: buy, sell, trade, or give away anything rink, from a pair of skates to a Zamboni, with eBay-style auctions. All of it is free at every tier; posting, sharing, and listing gear just need the verified email from step 1.

Walk through the Concussion App

The Concussion App's sideline appraisal is free and works with no account — add it to your phone's home screen so it's there the day a skater goes down hard. Walk its screens once now: the appraisal flow, the red-flag list, and the remove-from-ice guidance. It is a decision aid, not a diagnosis — when in doubt, sit them out.

Covered by your free Pro year: the pro tools — neurocognitive evaluation, athlete baseline records (baseline vs. injury comparison), and the team dashboard — under Concussion → My athletes.

Know the map

The Rink Map is public — no account needed to look — and it carries every ice rink we can find, plus the openings and coverage requests currently posted and, if you are listed, your own dot. It is the quickest way to see how much ice is inside your travel radius, and who is hiring in it.

It comes from OpenStreetMap, which means it is wrong in places, and you are exactly the person who would know. A rink with no website, a link that opens the wrong business, a roller rink filed as ice, a barn that came down two seasons ago — each has a line in the rink's panel to say so: Know its website?, Not the right website?, Not an ice rink?, and Missing a rink? for one that never made it on. It takes a signed-in account and about twenty seconds, and it is checked before it goes live.

Let the work come to you

You're done: listed, findable by credential and radius, reachable through the network. Openings and coverage requests that match your credentials email you on their own; keep your certificates current on your listing, share your public profile link or the one-page Résumé (PDF) it generates, and check Community when the Zamboni's charging. If a rink you work with runs Icewright, ask them for a Team seat — their Pro plan covers you with full access to their rink at no cost to either of you.