Yard Operations Leader - Heavy Industrial Pipe

First Search Inc.; Little Rock (AR); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

First Search Inc. is seeking a hands-on Yard Manager to oversee the safe, disciplined operation of a large industrial yard supporting pipe manufacturing, staging, and customer shipments in Little Rock, Arkansas.

The role covers daily flow, inventory accuracy, equipment utilization, and dispatch readiness, requiring strong leadership of supervisors and operators across multiple shifts in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of experience in heavy industrial yard operations, logistics, material handling, or related environments.
• 3–5+ years of supervisory leadership experience managing hourly operations teams in industrial or manufacturing settings.
• Experience leading large teams of operators, material handlers, supervisors, and yard personnel in fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead safe and efficient yard operations supporting plate, WIP, finished goods, quality hold material, staging, and outbound shipments.
• Manage daily yard flow including unloading, storage, staging, transfer, and dispatch readiness.
• Oversee safe handling of heavy materials including pipe, steel plate, cranes, forklifts, loaders, yard trucks, and rigging activities.
• Ensure compliance with all HSE standards including pre-shift safety meetings, inspections, traffic control, housekeeping, and safe lifting practices.
• Coordinate with manufacturing, quality, maintenance, logistics, rail, port, and inventory teams to support production continuity and delivery requirements.
• Maintain disciplined inventory and location accuracy through SAP/WMS transactions, cycle counts, and material tracking processes.
• Lead and develop a team of supervisors, equipment operators, material handlers, yard personnel across multiple shifts.
• Support on-time customer shipments through staging, loading coordination, documentation accuracy, and escalation of constraints.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to reduce re-handling, congestion, dwell time, and handling costs per ton.
• Utilize KPI reporting and root-cause analysis to improve operational performance, safety, and shipment reliability.
• Support hiring, onboarding, training, and performance management of yard operations personnel.

Skills

Supervisory leadership

Inventory management

SAP/WMS

Safety leadership

KPI dashboards

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

First Search Inc. is seeking a hands-on Yard Manager to oversee the safe, disciplined operation of a large industrial yard supporting pipe manufacturing, staging, and customer shipments in Little Rock, Arkansas.

The role covers daily flow, inventory accuracy, equipment utilization, and dispatch readiness, requiring strong leadership of supervisors and operators across multiple shifts in a fast-paced environment.