Yard Person

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Job Title: Yard Person

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Location: Newtown

Reports to: Location Manager

Date: 04/14/2025

Summary/Objective

The Yard Person is responsible for handling, storing, and moving building materials while ensuring a safe and organized work environment. Duties include loading and unloading trucks, assisting customers, managing inventory, and operating forklifts. This role requires a strong focus on efficiency, customer service, and workplace safety.

Essential Job Functions: Yard Operations

· Load and unload trucks, ensuring accuracy in materials received and dispatched.

· Move materials to and from storage areas, delivery vehicles, and freight containers using hand labor or forklifts.

· Maintain an orderly and clean yard, ensuring materials are stored and covered appropriately.

· Receive and process warehouse stock products while performing inventory controls.

· Check and inspect customer vehicles for order accuracy before departure.

· Report inventory shortages, waste, damage, and safety concerns to the appropriate personnel.

· Keep all machinery and tools clean and in good working order.

· Operate gasoline chainsaws and other standard equipment safely.

· Count and write-up orders accurately.

· Assist in maintaining a safe, efficient, and professional work environment.

· Prepare and complete orders for pickup or delivery per schedule.

· Inspect paid receipts and merchandise leaving the yard to ensure order accuracy.

· Accompany drivers for deliveries when necessary.

Forklift & Equipment Operations

· Safely operate forklifts and other material-handling equipment in the yard, warehouse, and delivery areas.

· Secure materials on delivery trucks using metal straps and other safety measures.

· Maintain proper certification and comply with all safety regulations.

· Safely operate power tools as needed, including circular saws and chain saws, to cut and prepare lumber or other materials.

Customer Service

· Assist customers in locating and loading purchased materials.

· Provide excellent service by understanding and addressing customer needs.

· Maintain professional and courteous interactions with customers, coworkers, and management.

Other Duties

· Understand customer requirements and ensure order fulfillment accuracy.

· Perform miscellaneous duties as assigned.

Qualifications & Competencies

· Education: High school diploma, GED, or equivalent.

· Experience:

o Minimum of 2 years in a lumber yard, distribution center, or warehouse.

o Preferred: 5 years in a similar environment with building materials knowledge.

· Skills & Certifications:

o Must be at least 18 years old.

o Ability to read, write, and communicate effectively in English.

o Forklift certification (or ability to obtain within three months).

o Valid driver's license and reliable transportation.

o Proficiency in basic math and measurement calculations (including reading tape measurements).

o Ability to operate a gasoline chainsaw safely.

o Bilingual proficiency in Spanish is preferred.

Working Conditions & Physical Demands

· Mobility & Endurance: Frequent sitting, standing, walking, bending, and occasional climbing, balancing, crouching, and crawling.

· Strength: Frequently pushing, pulling, lifting, carrying, standing, kneeling, walking, loading, and unloading and carrying up to 80 pounds unassisted.

· Environmental Conditions: Exposure to fumes, airborne particles, moving forklifts, noise, vibration, and extreme weather conditions.

· Motor Skills: Utilizing hands and arms for various tasks like operating controls, grasping, and repetitive motions, and requiring the ability to balance, maintain body equilibrium, and make quick, precise adjustments to controls.

· Vision & Coordination: Requiring specific vision abilities such as close and distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus, as well as excellent hand-eye coordination and spatial awareness.

Position Type & Expected Hours

· Full-time position.

· Typical schedule: Monday-Friday, 6:00 AM – 2:30 PM

· Travel: None

· Supervisory Responsibility: None

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Employee discount
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Paid training
• Parental leave
• Pet insurance
• Profit sharing
• Referral program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person