Yard Associate
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About The Position
The Yard Associate is responsible for the maintenance of storage yards and related facilities, including such duties as manually loading and unloading materials, operating mechanical loading equipment, preparing materials, etc. On a daily basis, the Yard Associate pulls, fills and sets up orders for customer pickup according to customer sales invoice. No exchange of items is permitted without customer invoice as proof of purchase. The associate ensures proper exchange of deposit cases according to sales invoice copy and notifies supervisor or management whenever there is a discrepancy between a customer's sales invoice and the actual exchange of products. The associate prohibits customers from pulling their own order of items staged in the yard area or inside the warehouse regardless of convenience. All customers must wait to be helped by yard attendant. The associate maintains yard area by keeping all products stocked in their assigned area, picks up and empties trash as needed and keeps chemicals separated as specified by class according to safety and fire authority requirements. The associate assists in loading customer vehicles either by hand or with the aid of a forklift, receives shipments of UPS and FedEx, and communicates positively with supervisors, sales staff, fellow workers and customers to coordinate deliveries/pick-up. The associate moves all inventory into allocated spaces in the yard area at the start of the work day and back into the warehouse at the end of the work day. The associate operates a forklift safely and efficiently, maintains required certification, performs vehicle safety checks and reports discrepancies to supervisor. The associate processes returns accurately, attends product knowledge meetings as required by management, assists in keeping facility secure, maintains proficiency in computerized systems and other technologies as required, and performs other duties as assigned.
