Yard - Full Time - Sonoma
About The Position
Join Friedman’s, where our mission is to Deliver the Human Side of Home Improvement. Named a “Best Place to Work” and voted Sonoma County’s Best Home Improvement Store 14 years in a row, we’re built on a positive, team-oriented culture built on decades of trust and service. We offer bundled benefits; eligibility for a discretionary bonus; 401(k). You’ll also enjoy a generous employee discount and tuition reimbursement to support your career path. At Friedman’s, you’re not just starting a job, you’re joining a team that leads, grows, and builds something bigger together.
Requirements
- High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
- Valid California Class C driver’s license or better with a clean DMV print out
Responsibilities
- Answer customer’s question’s concerning location, price, and use of merchandise. Help customer with loading product
- Service all customers in your area or phone inquiries in the most expeditious, accurate and courteous manner. Constantly upgrade product knowledge in your area and of all merchandise locations throughout the yard. Assist customer by walking them to the proper product and personally finding product or by asking a Yard II or Yard III in your area for assistance
- Basic understanding of computer system and able to complete customer inquiries, quotes orders and special orders as needed
- Determine customers’ needs by finding requested product or selling them a related or substitute item. Responsibilities include selling and closing sales on a project-oriented basis by demonstrating products of related items to customer and presenting promotional sales product facts, information and product data. Exhibit the ability to service multiple customers in a friendly, efficient and effective manner
- Cut lumber, sheet goods and pipe to specified sizes to fulfill customer requests
- Obtains merchandise requested by customer from racking and units
- Maintain merchandising responsibilities as needed such as culling lumber and down stocking
- Ensure that all product locations have current and appropriate bin labels, pull tags and pricing as necessary. Actively utilize computer system to maintain inventory accuracy
- Stocks bays, racking and designated areas with merchandise
- Sweep area, remove banding, restack, and cull product as needed
- Possess and maintains a valid California Class “C” or better driver’s license
- Equipment Operation such as but not limited to: pallet jacks, forklifts, yard carts, saws, pipe cutter, cutting torch, hydraulic rebar shear, manual rebar shear, culvert cutting and specialty equipment where needed
- Unload vendor delivery trucks as needed and understand how to sign off packing list
- Sells product such as but not limited to sheetrock, insulation, lumber, building materials, fencing, and pipe
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations
- Complete the required Product Knowledge Self-Study guide for the Yard with a passing score
- Additional duties as assigned by Manager
Benefits
- bundled benefits
- eligibility for a discretionary bonus
- 401(k)
- generous employee discount
- tuition reimbursement
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
