**Job Title: Yard Hand** **Job Description** A Yard Hand is responsible for the safe movement of products from the lumber yard, ensuring efficient, clean, and safe operations. This role involves loading and unloading materials, assisting customers, and maintaining an organized yard environment. **Responsibilities** + Load and unload materials needed for residential and commercial properties. + Handle building materials such as windows, doors, and wood supplies. + Spend 60% of the time loading and unloading materials and 40% operating mid-size industrial forklifts. + Manage varying workloads depending on the shipment requirements. + Stand for long periods and move heavy materials. + Meet with customers to pick up bundled materials. + Build loads and load trucks for both company and customer vehicles. + Assist with yard maintenance to ensure a safe and efficient environment. + Provide excellent customer service to contractors and do-it-yourselfers. + Accurately pull and stage materials for pickup or delivery. + Conduct cycle counts and keep the yard organized. + Properly use and maintain all equipment. + Commit to continued learning about products, packages, and procedures. + Follow all applicable safety and inventory management rules and procedures. + Accurately distribute and place building materials as per order tickets. + Ensure pulled products are neatly placed and presentable. + Clean up and properly dispose of debris. + Take initiative to address tasks without being asked. **Essential Skills** + Experience as an order puller and handling general labor tasks. + Ability to operate heavy equipment and forklifts. + Knowledge of all applicable building material products. + Previous customer service experience. + Strong communication skills. + Ability to work independently with limited supervision. **Additional Skills & Qualifications** + Must be knowledgeable, trained, capable, and licensed/certified to operate forklift equipment. + Computer literacy and knowledge of current office technology. + High school diploma is nice to have but not required. **Why Work Here?** We offer a full benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and more. Our 401K plan includes a 3% company match. Enjoy paid time off benefits, paid holidays, and bereavement leave. We provide opportunities for growth and compensation increases based on performance. Additionally, our Employee Equity Appreciation Plan offers bonuses similar to a profit-sharing plan. **Work Environment** Work is performed in the yard, exposed to all weather elements. Employees work outside in rain or shine and will be notified not to report in snow for safety reasons. **Job Type & Location** This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Linville, North Carolina. **About Aerotek:** We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow. Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.