Assistant Yard Foreman

Founded in 1890, Curtis Lumber is a family owned and operated building materials retailer, one of 100 largest and fastest-growing in the nation. Our employees enjoy competitive pay and excellent benefits coupled with ideal business hours allowing for a healthy work life balance. We recognize our employees hard work and dedication are the driving force of our success, and we continually look for ways to reward them.

Curtis Lumber is currently looking to immediately fill an Assistant Yard Foreman position with someone who possess knowledge on Building Material Products and has a strong background in leadership.

• Monitor employee’s daily activity and delegate or assign work as appropriate
• Prepare and distribute work schedules
• Challenge and develop employees’ performance, provide feedback, and hold direct reports accountable for their goals and job responsibilities
• Ensure timely, accurate review of weekly time record reports and employee expenses for payroll processing
• Assist with candidate selection and interview process for new hires
• Motivate employees and offer opportunity and reward appropriately
• Make recommendations to Manager regarding efforts to control employee turnover
• Make recommendations to Manager regarding employee performance for coaching, review, and disciplinary efforts

• Acknowledge, greet, and assist customers in a timely and professional manner
• Provide accurate fast in, fast out service for customers
• Identify the needs and provide the appropriate level of assistance to the customer
• Effectively research and resolve customer complaints and conflicts

• Ensure that all reasonable directives from the Manager are carried out in a timely and accurate manner
• Communicate regularly with the Yard Foreman and/or management team regarding inventory levels, employee progress, safety, procedures, and general yard efficiency

• Understand the marketplace
• Know product features
• Effective suggestive selling and add on sales
• Share expertise with others

• Maintain a neat, clean yard appearance
• Practice good merchandising including setup and traffic flow
• Maintain inventory levels and notify appropriate person of out stocks
• Rotate stock
• Manage shrink by utilizing proper procedures for cull and damaged product
• Assist with physical inventory and cycle counts