Yard and Warehouse Manager

1 week ago

Edmonton, Canada Dick's Lumber Full time

**Dick’s Lumber**in **Edmonton** is looking for an experienced, organized and detail-oriented team player to join our team as a **Yard and Warehouse Manager**.

**DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Directs and monitors work activities, establishes priorities, delegates tasks, monitors performance and follows up to ensure timely completion.
- Establishes performance standards and schedules the training for staff development; including arranging the training of all yard personnel, safety orientations and forklift training. Ensures all required certifications are current and maintains training documentations accordingly.
- Demonstrates excellent communication/people skills and problem-solving ability when dealing with customers and co-workers and takes action to address both staff and customer concerns and complaints.
- Builds a strategic relationship between the yard and store operations.
- Ensures compliance with operational and safety policies/procedures, while taking appropriate action as a Management Representative on the Joint Health and Safety Committee.
- Ensures department has a strong focus on customer service by establishing and maintaining service standards.
- Recommends efficient warehouse and yard layouts, and ensures damage and shrink are minimized.
- Supervises yard inventory counts for both cyclical and year-end inventory and maintains adequate inventories of all yard products, ensuring shortages and low inventory are reported to the buying department.
- Ensures all required paperwork and documentation is completed in an accurate and timely fashion.
- Ensures basic building and yard repairs are completed in a timely manner.
- Minimizes vehicle and equipment expense and down time.
- Performs other job
- related duties as required.

**QUALIFICATIONS**:

- Strong leadership skills to direct the efforts of the warehouse and yard staff to resolve customer complaints and motivate and maintain morale.
- Fluent in English (spoken and written) with excellent listening, communication and interpersonal skills to deal effectively with individuals within and outside the organization.
- Strong knowledge of lumber, building materials and hardware products.
- Professional, courteous and punctual with a focus on customer service.
- Must have a positive attitude and be a team player.
- Excellent time management and organizational skills.
- Detail oriented with strong organizational skills.
- Knowledge of Occupational Health and Safety Regulations and other pertinent legislation.

**WORKING CONDITIONS**:

- Exposure to dust, dirt and extreme changes in temperature and weather.
- Moderate exposure to personal risk; safety boots are required.
- Busy, high volume environment.

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- RRSP match
- Store discount
- Vision care

Flexible language requirement:

- French not required

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekends as needed

Application question(s):

- What are your salary expectations?

**Experience**:

- Proven experience managing in a unionized environment: 3 years (required)
- Strong leadership skills: 5 years (required)
- Strong knowledge of lumber, building materials: 5 years (required)

Work Location: In person

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