Yard Specialist: Forklift Licensed & Customer-Focused

Cairns Hardware; Cairns Regional; On-site; AUD 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Birthday paid day off

Free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Uniform provided

Rewards platform discounts

Team member discounts

Growth within the company

Job summary

Dahlsens Family Group of Companies in Gordonvale is seeking a motivated Yard Person to join our Cairns region team. You will handle heavy building materials, assist customers, and support branch management to deliver efficient, accurate service each day.

Weekend availability is required as the store opens seven days. A Forklift Licence is essential, and the role suits someone who enjoys hands-on work, teamwork, and delivering friendly, practical advice to customers.

Qualifications

• High awareness of site safety and duty of care for your team, staff and site visitors
• Physically fit with the ability to safely lift loads and manually handle goods
• Exceptional attention to detail coupled with high level of accuracy
• Operate vehicles in accordance to relative licences and abilities
• Manual Vehicle Licence
• Forklift Licence (LF) Essential
• Finally have a hands on with a can do attitude

Responsibilities

• Receive, move, relocate, store and load stock in keeping with the company workplace health and safety practises
• Prepare orders for delivery in an accurate and timely manner, including being appropriately packaged for transport
• Collate and load customer orders ready for delivery or pick up by customer
• Maintain yard and work environment in a clean and safe manner adhering to workplace health and safety guidelines
• Loads are appropriately secured to meet requirements and ensure goods are not damaged
• High level of customer service to all internal and external customers always
• Monitoring stock levels to ensure supply and demand needs are met
• Undertake regular product training with market leading brands
• Have a commitment to ongoing job security

Skills

Forklift Licence

Manual Vehicle Licence

Physically fit

Customer service

Attention to detail

Safety awareness

Job description

Dahlsens Family Group of Companies in Gordonvale is seeking a motivated Yard Person to join our Cairns region team. You will handle heavy building materials, assist customers, and support branch management to deliver efficient, accurate service each day.

Weekend availability is required as the store opens seven days. A Forklift Licence is essential, and the role suits someone who enjoys hands-on work, teamwork, and delivering friendly, practical advice to customers.