Yard Associate

Bliffert Lumber•Cudahy, WI

5d•$20 - $22•Onsite

About The Position

As a Yard Associate at Bliffert Lumber, you'll play an important role in delivering a great customer experience while helping keep our lumberyard safe, organized, and running efficiently. You'll assist customers and team members by loading and unloading building materials, preparing orders for delivery or pickup, maintaining inventory, and ensuring the yard is clean and well organized. This is a hands-on position that requires a strong work ethic, a commitment to safety, and the ability to work both independently and as part of a team. Whether you're helping a contractor load materials for a jobsite or stocking inventory for the next delivery, you'll help ensure our customers receive the quality service and products they've come to expect from Bliffert Lumber.

Requirements

Building materials knowledge
Ability to read and use measuring materials
Strong time-management skills
Understand basic math.
Valid Driver’s License
Able to lift to 75lbs frequently, in a consistently safe manner.
Able to work in outdoor conditions year round

Nice To Haves

Forklift experience, forklift certified will take preference.
May have to help in the other two yards as necessary.

Responsibilities

Work with Dispatch or store manager to keep up with the flow of the day, to keep the loads pulled and ready to be put on the trucks as they come back for their next runs.
Maintain control over and help walk-in or pick up retail customers and business to business customers.
Receive and pull orders and credit returns with accuracy.
Load and unload trucks and bunking materials correctly.
Ability to recognize customer satisfaction and dissatisfaction with materials being loaded and resolving customer problems.
Be able to perform general organization and housekeeping/landscaping of the yard.
Be able to use power tools and saws safely, make rough cuts.
Ability to communicate effectively with other store personnel, managers, and customers.
Basic computer skills
Ability to follow procedures and make them more efficient.
Work well independently and in a team environment.
Verifies that incoming materials are inspected, checked for damage, and counted for accuracy.
Ensure incoming and outgoing deliveries are consistent with purchase orders in quantity and quality prior to accepting delivery or unloading products off trucks or prior to loading trucks to go out for delivery.