Yard - Full Time - Santa Rosa
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
- Employee discount on all merchandise
- Store bonus eligibility
- Team Member of the Quarter opportunities
- Tuition reimbursement to further career path
- 401(k)
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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
