Yard Operative

The Timber Group; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

The Timber Group is seeking a Yard Operative to join their Maidstone team. In this role, you'll ensure excellent customer service, manage deliveries, and maintain yard organization while working with a team dedicated to efficiency. The company offers a supportive work environment along with various benefits including annual leave and a performance bonus.

Benefits

23 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Company performance bonus scheme

Contributory pension scheme

Company funded Life Assurance

Generous colleague discount scheme

Training and development programmes

Qualifications

• Forklift truck licence would be an advantage.
• A proactive approach to teamwork and customer service.

Responsibilities

• Receive and check off deliveries, ensuring secure and timely storage.
• Maintain yard cleanliness and organize stock.
• Manage customer service interactions efficiently.

Skills

Customer Service

Teamwork

Attention to Detail

Tools

Forklift Truck

Job description

We're looking for a Yard Operative to join us at The Timber Group in Maidstone!

We are an ambitious company and our people reflect that, we strive to always do things better tomorrow than we did today so we can be the first choice for our customers and our colleagues who want a winning place to work. We are a company where people are recognised, remembered, and respected. In return it’s our people who earn the trust of our customers, their colleagues and our communities alike. Our loyal customer base is built on strong relationships which have been developed because our colleagues listen to their needs, exceed their expectations and send them home happy.

As aYard Operative, you would be working in one of our branches as part of a team where everyone is putting the effort in to offer brilliant customer service and to get the job done. You would report to the Yard Supervisor and the Branch Management Team.

Here’s what you can expect to do as a Yard Operative with The Timber Group:

• Receive and check off deliveries to the branch, highlighting any anomalies and ensuring secure, correct and timely storage of such deliveries in line with health and safety guidelines
• Ensuring that customers are served promptly and efficiently at all times.
• Ensure that the yard is kept tidy at all times, that stock is clearly identifiable and low stock levels highlighted to branch management where necessary to make sure certain products are available at all times.
• Using a forklift truck to assist with picking and loading of company vehicles.
• Actively safeguard against theft of goods or company property by being security conscious at all times.
• Work and communicate as a team member to ensure the branch operates efficiently and effectively within company policy.

We realise that you are more than just a CV and embracing everyone’s individuality is what makes us great as a team. We can give you plenty of training and equip you with the tools that you’ll need to succeed as a Yard Operative but a forklift truck licence would be an advantage.

We know you’re thinking ‘this sounds great, but what’s in it for me?’ Let us tell you:

• 23 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Company performance bonus scheme
• Acontributory pension scheme
• Company funded Life Assurance
• Agenerous colleague discount scheme
• Arange of training and development programmes to help you progress your career

If you’re in the trade or have ever tackled a home improvement project, you’ve probably heard of us. We’re the Huws Gray Group and we’re made up of a number of brands, including Huws Gray, Hirebase, Civils & Lintels, The Timber Group, PDM, NDI and Anglia Tool Centre to name a few. Up and down the UK, our branches are serving and supporting our local communities with all their building material needs, but we couldn’t do this without the right people, so why not join us?