Forge & Build is Hiring a Store Associate - Yard
Forge & Build is immediately hiring a Store Associate - Yard to join our Mansfield, MO team.
Schedule: Monday to Friday, 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM, and offers overtime pay after working 40 hours. (On call during the weekend only in special circumstances)
Pay range: $15 - $20
Why We’re a Better Place to Work
- Competitive salary
- Medical, Dental and Vision benefits coverage for full-time employees
- Generous paid time off (PTO) plus company paid holidays
- 401(k) and company match
- Annual tool and boot reimbursements for those in applicable jobs
- Fitness Membership stipends plus seasonal and year round wellness challenges
- Company sponsored events (annual family gatherings, food truck nights and more). Monthly family dinner nights
- Volunteering and local charity initiatives that help you nurture and grow the communities you call home. Employees receive 16 hours of paid volunteer time per year
- Opportunities for career advancement and professional development
About Forge & Build
Forge & Build is a place contractors and customers can access all the materials and hardware they need to get the job done, as well as tech-powered equipment rentals.
At its foundation, Forge & Build was started by contractors for contractors. Its leadership team is different from our competitors because they know what it feels like to be a builder. They remember walking into a hardware store hoping to find everything in one place, but many times having to head to another store.
As a partner of EquipmentShare, Forge & Build is backed by one of the largest construction equipment buyers in the country, a nationwide support team and T3 technology that helps builders of America increase overall productivity, efficiency, and visibility. EquipmentShare is building connectivity for all verticals in construction including materials – which means having accurate and up-to-date information around inventory and location of materials to ensure our customers always have what they need.
Primary Responsibilities
- Service and maintain positive relationship with current customer base
- Work in yard and with other sales and yard persons to ensure quality customer service
- Assist and wait on customers while in yard
- Report all incorrect orders/deliveries to manager and help resolve in timely manner
- Understand the operations of the store computers, registers, and other equipment.
- Assist in counting and maintaining inventory, and keeping yard neat, clean and orderly
- Observe all safety rules and regulations, and take prompt corrective action concerning any safety hazards.
- Assemble customers’ loads in accordance with loading list for delivery to job site at the time and date required by customer
- Assist with receiving and loading trucks
- Operates forklifts and vehicles according to applicable state and federal transportation laws.
- Transport loads safely and in a timely manner over required routes, obeying all traffic laws and observing all safety regulations.
- Deftly maneuvers truck and trailer into loading and unloading areas; follows loading crew signals.
- Assists with loading of or loads and unloads goods and materials, using specialized equipment when warranted; unloads empty skids and returns all equipment to designated area.
- Maintains signed invoices, shipping bills of lading, and other required paperwork in a timely manner; delivers documentation to shipping office or other appropriate staff when delivery route is complete.
- Facilitates routine service on trucks, which may include checking oil, water, gasoline, and air; reports maintenance malfunctions to the Shipping Supervisor.
- Arranges trailers in shipping yards for optimum loading patterns.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Skills & Qualifications
Required Skills/Abilities:
- Must have knowledge of lumber and building products
- Strong interpersonal and customer service skills with the ability to speak professionally and courteously with customers and staff at delivery points.
- Must be prepared to work alternate weekends
- Must have good communication skills
- Experience operating a forklift and straight truck
- Ability to remain focused in busy environment.
- Must hold either a commercial drivers license or chauffeur’s license depending on state, appropriate for weight of vehicle to be operated.
- Must pass background and drug testing as required by federal and/or state department(s) of transportation regulations
- Must pass DOT physical, as trucks driven are over 10k lbs.
- Inherent desire to learn and develop on an individual basis
- Strive for continuous improvement
Physical Requirements:
- Must be able to walk and stand 8 + hours a day and the ability to lift 50+lbs by self
- Must be able to bend, stoop, push, pull and reach above head and climb flight of stairs while carrying material
- Must be able push and pull material from bin
- This is a safety sensitive position and any offer of employment will be contingent on passing a 10 panel drug screen
EquipmentShare is an EOE M/F/D/V