Yard Area Manager

Harbor Freight•Puyallup, WA

31d•Onsite

About The Position

The Yard Area Manager plays an integral role in overseeing a team of third-party Yard Drivers and directly supervising the Harbor Freight Tools Yard Management System (YMS) Clerks and Coordinators. Their responsibilities extend to cost reduction, streamlining manpower efficiency, and ensuring the efficient execution of all yard management planning requirements. This role necessitates collaboration with various internal departments and external partners to enhance Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, Planning, Transportation, and Maintenance, ultimately driving optimization and service excellence.

Requirements

Staff supervision and development — yes
Decision making- yes
Understanding of HFT Transportation Safety Policies and Procedures
Familiarity with OSHA, FMCSR regulations and standards
Ability to audit compliance of licenses, permits, and insurance cards
Ability to initiate work orders for facility/yard repairs
Ability to review and audit invoices
Ability to provide operational plans
Ability to strategically staff personnel
Ability to monitor and audit YMS Admin Clerks/Operations Coordinators
Ability to perform trailer and equipment audits
Ability to conduct training
Ability to report and track safety observations, accidents, and incidents
Ability to coordinate vehicle maintenance
Ability to understand scheduling, arrivals, and departures of trailers/containers
Ability to partner with departments to understand yard flow
Ability to report Yard Driver productivity/utilization
Ability to monitor and analyze driver performance
Ability to report HFT Yard related maintenance expenses
Ability to report YMS Admin Clerical report functions
Ability to provide necessary reports to management

Nice To Haves

Experience with Yard Management Systems (YMS)
Experience with Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
Experience in a transportation or logistics environment
Experience managing third-party vendors

Responsibilities

Communicate, in all necessary forms, to ACAC leadership and Yard Drivers along with HFT Yard Management, YMS Admins and Operations Coordinators, including but not limited to process changes, process improvements, corrective actions (HFT only), disciplinary actions (HFT only), policy changes, etc.
Communicate, in all necessary forms, any issues and opportunities that require HFT Management attention.
Understand and be familiar with HFT Transportation Safety Policies and Procedures as well as OSHA, F MCSR regulations and standards.
Escalate WMS/YMS issues to HFT local and corporate management teams.
Track driver safety practices, performance and incentives.
Pre-Approve Kronos time for all HFT associates.
Maintain Yard Truck Usage reports.
Audit compliance of license, permits and insurance cards for assigned HFT vehicles (Day cabs, yard trucks, straight trucks, etc.)
Initiate work orders to correct facility/yard repairs.
Review all ACAC invoices and audit for any discrepancies.
Provide daily and weekly operational plans to third party on driver needs
Strategically staff Yard Drivers, YMS Admin Clerks and Operations Coordinators when necessary.
Monitor error of YMS Admin Clerks/Operations Coordinators.
Oversee regular trailer audits to ensure accuracy of our yard.
Perform regular equipment audits to ensure OSHA standards, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSR), local and state laws.
Conduct required training for Yard Drivers, YMS Admins and Operations Coordinators.
Report and track safety observations, accidents, and incidents to site EHS Manager.
Coordinate and follow up on all vehicle maintenance related items with assigned vendor(s).
Understanding the scheduling, arrivals and departures of trailers/ containers to drive effective communication with Operations.
Create partnership with all departments to fully understand the flow in/ out of the yard(s) as well as maintaining accurate trailer/container counts thru audits.
Report Yard Driver productivity/utilization.
Monitor and analyze driver performance, such as task execution and moves per hour.
Report HFT Yard related maintenance expenses.
Report any required YMS Admin Clerical report functions.
Provide any and all necessary reports to Transportation Manager and other Management team members
Regular attendance is an essential function of the job
Additional duties as assigned

Benefits

medical
dental
vision
life insurance
short-term disability
long-term disability
401k plan
paid time off up to 200 hours per year (inclusive of PTO, floating holidays, and paid holidays)
paid sick time up to 80 hours per year unless otherwise required by law
annual discretionary bonus