Need more than one site owner

Hello

We have a situation in our office where 2 of us are site collection administrators but only 1 of us is a site owner.

This means that when someone has not checked a document in only the site owner can manage the checked out file. This is a major issue for us because when the site owner is sick/away then no one can manage forgotten/checked out files.

I would have thought that the site collection administrator would be able to manage the files as well however it appears this is not the case.

Can you please advise, is there a work around for this issue? Or can we have 2 site owners?



Thank you,

Mel