Yard Manager
URS Group•Spring Hill, TN
•Onsite
About The Position
The Yard Manager is responsible for directly overseeing daily yard activities, including driver management and yard compliance, traffic flow, and inbound vehicle coordination. This role ensures safety, efficiency, and compliance with all company and customer procedures.
Requirements
- Directly overseeing daily yard activities
- Driver management and yard compliance
- Traffic flow and inbound vehicle coordination
- Ensuring safety, efficiency, and compliance with all company and customer procedures
- Monitoring loading dock activity
- Identifying and mitigating potential safety hazards
- Conducting load audits
- Confirming yard security measures
- Escalating security issues
- Supporting Operations Department after normal dispatch hours
- Coordinating replacement or additional vehicles for outbound loads
- Generating and reviewing daily shipping and receiving reports
- Communicating reporting and updates
Responsibilities
- When needed, counsel drivers when company or customer policies or procedures are not followed
- Implement and/or enforce yard bans for non-complicit drivers in advance of like action from the customer
- Maintain safe and efficient traffic flow throughout the yard
- Enforce proper vehicle loading and unloading procedures, including dumping air (when applicable) and loading from ground
- Ensure all personnel working outside wear high-visibility safety gear
- Monitor loading dock activity to ensure: Only vehicles being actively loaded or unloaded occupy dock space
- Proactively identify and mitigate potential safety hazards
- Conduct load audits on every load to ensure drivers are following all policies and procedures
- Confirm all established yard security measures are adhered to
- Escalate any issues involving security immediately to the Safety Department
- Support the Operations Department after normal dispatch hours by coordinating replacement or additional vehicles for outbound loads
- Generate and review daily shipping and receiving reports
- Communicate all reporting and updates in a timely manner
Benefits
- BCBS PPO Medical with Telehealth
- Delta Dental
- NVA Vision
- Company Paid Life and AD&D
- Supplemental Life
- Dependent Life
- Short-Term Disability
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- New Vehicle Supplier Discounts
- 401(k) with Company Match
- PTO Program (Vacation, Sick, Personal, Jury, Bereavement)
- 6 Paid Holidays
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
