Seasonal Part Time Yard Associate

Seasonal Part Time Customer Service / Yard Associate
Summary:Performs general lumber yard duties such as delivery order preparation and loading, unloading, verification and storage or received merchandise, customer loading, delivery assistance, and general housekeeping duties. Cleans, organizes and straightens yard and related areas as directed.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:**
Duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Prepares customer delivery orders and loads on delivery vehicle as assigned.
• Unloads incoming freight merchandise, verifies, counts, and puts away stock in pre-designated areas.
• Properly identifies, tags, and stores incoming special order merchandise.
• Corrects or brings to the attention of the Yard / Operations Manager any unsafe building, yard or storage condition.
• Performs the loading and unloading of customers.
• Performs basic yard housekeeping duties such as sweeping floors and picking up trash.
• Returns customer return merchandise to pre-designated storage areas.
• Assists in the delivery of yard merchandise as assigned.
• Picks-up trash, banding, wrappers, and other foreign objects in the yard and adjacent areas
• Maintains weed/grass control in yard and adjacent areas.
• Culls lumber and building materials.
• Assists in loading vehicles or unloading freight as directed.
• Levels lumber units
• Follows safe vehicle and equipment operation and general yard practices.
• Assists in the delivery of customer orders as required.
• Performs minor facility maintenance tasks as directed.
• Immediately reports all accidents, injuries and incidents of damage, to merchandise, buildings and equipment and customer property to the Operations Manager.
• Knows and practices safe and proper lifting, carrying and material maneuvering practices.

Business Measurements:**

• Eliminates delivery order error rates.
• Loads and unloads customers quickly and accurately.
• Reduces merchandise shipping and handling and storage damage.
• Eliminates errors on verification of received merchandise.
• Reduces location special order merchandise by following efficient and proper receiving practices.
• Increases overall “curb appeal" of yard and adjacent areas.
• Reduces excessive wear on vehicle tires.
• Reduces accidents in the yard and related areas by creating a safer working environment and following safe operational practices.

Qualifications:**
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Basic reasoning concepts such as proper and safe loading practices.
• The person in this position must be able to complete a forklift operator’s certification.
• Ability to work with basic mathematical concepts in order to calculate order quantities and verification of incoming freight shipments.
• Knowledge of basic building materials.

Supervisory Responsibilities:
There are no supervisory responsibilities associated with this position.

Physical Demands / Work Environment
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Work environment characteristics are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include normal vision.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is almost always exposed to outside weather conditions.
• The employee in this job is frequently required to lift and carry for a moderate distance items over 100 pounds.
• The employee in this position is frequently required to walk distances over 200 yards.
• The employee in this position is frequently required to climb heights over 6 feet.
• The employee is frequently exposed to heavy equipment such as delivery vehicles or fork trucks.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to noisy.

Job Type: Part-time

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Work Location: In person