Yard Associate

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Insures proper exchange of deposit cases according to sales invoice copy.
• Notifies supervisor or management whenever there is a discrepancy between a customer’s sales invoice and the actual exchange of products.
• 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.
• 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 safety and fire authority requirements.
• Assists in loading customer vehicles either by hand or with the aid of a forklift.
• Receives shipments of UPS and FedEx. Notifies warehouse associates of all shipments received.
• Communicates positively with supervisors, sales staff, fellow workers and customers to coordinate deliveries/pick-up.
• 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.