Yard/Warehouse Manager

Ridout Lumber and Meek’s combine over 150 years of trusted service and deep local relationships across Arkansas and Missouri to deliver top-tier building materials and customer-first solutions as part of the US LBM family. Build your future with us—where career advancement is supported through leadership development, cross-market opportunities, and a strong culture of growth.

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A Brief Overview

The Yard/Warehouse Manager manages associates within a large warehouse and/or yard who receive, ship, stock, order, and count inventory items while monitoring quality and completing all appropriate paperwork. This person is responsible for leading a team who oversees the safe movement of materials and finished components in an efficient manner. This position requires operating a forklift truck with foot and hand controls for various aspects of job, as needed.

What you will do

• Operate safely.
• Participate in a positive work environment.
• Assist warehouse associates and direct supervisor in maintaining an organized work environment.
• May include, emptying trash receptacles, and keeping all bays and staging areas clean and organized.
• Receive incoming products, commodities and materials.
• Provides Excellent Customer Service
• Count and record receipt of materials.
• Stock all material received in appropriate bins or storage locations.
• Assist inventory control in counting and organizing warehouse materials.
• Operate forklift with foot and hand controls.
• May use forklift to build outgoing orders or to load completed orders onto delivery equipment
• Operate facility equipment as necessary (e.g. bander, power tools, various hand tools).
• Monitor inventory as required by location management.
• May have some logistics oversight (or act as backup).
• Retain an awareness of the work environment critical to the task at hand to produce error free and damage free results.
• Responsible for managing a team of 15+ associates (direct and indirect), including hiring and termination decisions, setting goals, communicating expectations, providing performance feedback, and overseeing budget accountability.

Required For All Jobs

• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Comply with all policies and standards.
• Adhere to Company’s commitment to workplace safety.
• Participate in and complete assigned trainings.

Education Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required.

Experience Qualifications

• 7-9 years industry experience / freight handling required.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to do basic math, read orders, write instructions and complete forms.
• Ability to effectively and professionally communicate with customers, other employees and supervisors using verbal and written skills.
• Ability to deal constructively with conflict and recognize potential problems.
• Proficiency with or ability to learn current technologies (e.g. Smartphone, Inventory Control Systems and other necessary business applications).
• Excellent teamwork & customer relationships.
• Demonstrate leadership by mentoring and training associates, engaging with Safety Committee, and participating in US1 Continuous Improvement Projects.

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Ridout Lumber and Meek’s, Divisions of US LBM Holdings, LLC are equal opportunity employers. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, military status, order of protection status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law.