What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lumber Yard Lead position at BELL LUMBER & POLE COMPANY LLC?
Are you interested in contributing to a company whose mission is to radically love and influence lives? As a Yard Lead for Bell Timber's Barron, WI team, you will play an important role in ensuring the efficient functioning of the site, including daily operations, logistics, production, and staffing needs, while maintaining a safe working environment. This includes providing guidance, training, and support to our team members.
Shift: Monday - Friday, Day Shift
Compensation: $27.00 - $30.00 per hour
As a Yard Lead, you will:
- Coordinate and oversee the unloading, loading, and processing of work orders in collaboration with site leadership.
- Perform quality checks to ensure excellence with regulatory, environmental, quality, and defect categorization standards.
- Ensure accurate documentation by regularly auditing paperwork and product counts.
- Provide daily guidance to employees on their tasks and duties, communicating any performance concerns to management.
- Perform any operational role within the yard as needed, including operating heavy or mobile equipment, grading, and/or framing poles, etc.
- Lead by example and suggest improvements to processes when discovered.
- Assist site leadership in ensuring adherence to policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
- Train new employees and support cross-training for additional duties.
- Attend all required trainings, leading safety or other trainings as directed.
- Maintain production paperwork and records daily.
- Maintain a clean, organized, and safe work area, conducting department inspections as assigned.
- Ensure that equipment production areas (inside and outside) as well as communal spaces are well maintained. This includes shoveling snow or other grounds maintenance as needed.
- Ensure workplace health and safety by observing all safety guidelines (including proper PPE), requirements, and procedures and reporting any concerns to management.
- Operate machinery and tools correctly and maintain them with care, notifying supervisor of any equipment requiring maintenance.
- Work cooperatively with the production team to meet quotas, goals, and operational needs.
- All other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Education: High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Experience: Minimum of 1 year of experience in a manufacturing or production environment. Previous experience in a leadership or supervisory role is preferred.
- Must be able to work as a team, take direction from supervisor(s), adhere to required work schedules, focus attention on details, follow work rules, and take on other duties as assigned.
- Ability to learn and comprehend new technical skills and knowledge.
- Ability to use chain saw and hand tools (including tape measure) or ability to learn.
- Proficiency in safely operating a range of heavy machinery and equipment.
- Effective time management to complete tasks within deadlines.
- Ability to keep accurate records and submit reports.
- Ability to effectively operate a computer.
- Strong communication, problem solving, and leadership skills.
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Benefits
- In addition to competitive pay, we offer a comprehensive benefits package including:
- Health, dental, and vision insurance (with HRA and FSA)
- 401(k) with company match
- Short and long-term disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid holidays and generous paid time off
- Professional development opportunities
- Employee assistance and employee/community hardship programs
Bell Lumber & Pole is an equal opportunity employer.
Bell Lumber & Pole is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
This applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Bell makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.
Bell is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please call 651-203-2719 or send an e-mail to HRTeam@blpole.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
For additional details, you can read our EEO Policy.
Salary : $27 - $30