An Equal Opportunity Employer

Yard Foreman

Job Description

Supervises: Yard Workers

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

We are a Dynamic and Flexible Construction Company that strives to exceed our clients' needs. Action Traffic Maintenance, Inc. is a family-owned business with over 40 years of expertise and three generations working side by side.

We have grown to over 130 employees specializing in road signs, guardrails, high-tension cable barriers, and fencing. We construct the most cost-effective and desirable products by working directly with owners' architects, designers, and representatives. We aim to provide premium workmanship at a great value while maintaining a safety-first environment.

Position Summary:

The duties of a yard supervisor can vary and can include, but are not limited to:

• Supervises workers who receive, distribute, and load materials. They may also be responsible for unloading raw materials, transporting them, and placing and loading materials.
• Responsible for maintaining yard organization and general tasks at the Grand Blanc location. They may also supervise routine maintenance and inspection.
• Oversees and fulfills the same job responsibilities of designated yard team members at the Grand Blanc location, including directing day the day-to-day workflow of assigned team members, monitoring the yard activities, coordinating delivery scheduling and dispatch duties, handling customer and delivery inquiries, receiving and stocking materials, and inventory assistance, monitoring, and support.
• Coordinates the workload of Yard team members and Drivers, arranging duties, dispatching product deliveries and pick-ups, yard activities, and providing input on departmental needs.
• Efficiently manages paperwork, ensuring timely submittal of requisitions for replacement materials, accurate data entry, delivery notations, confirmation of inventory shipments/ receipts, and other customer updates and follow-ups. Completion of team members weekly timesheets.
• Coordinates inventory support and assistance, including inventory preparations and counts, proper disposal of materials no longer being used, and inventory adjustments to ensure company systems accurately reflect material on hand.
• Interacts with internal and external customers, providing exemplary customer service.
• Maintain Yard layout standards and protocol, ensuring adherence to yard set-up standards and that yard areas are clean and kept up.
• Open communication with the Operations Manager regarding challenges, possible solutions, and business impacts.
• Performance management of designated team members limited to job training, supervising cross training, monitoring required Driver, Safety, and company system training, and day-to-day direction of all Yard Team Members.
• Work closely with mechanics for the maintenance of all MOT devices onsite as well as various equipment.
• Monitor and support the production of cage building and maintain records of materials needed and those completed for projects.
• Welding on occasion
• Must be willing to work outdoors.
• Ability to operate various equipment to move materials around the yard.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Minimum Qualifications:

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, abilities, and minimum qualifications necessary to perform the essential functions of the position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the job.

Requirements include the following:

• Problem-solving skills
• Valid Driver's License, CDL A or B (preferred but not required)
• Works well in a team environment where situations and demands change daily.
• Reliable source of transportation
• Effective Communication Skills

Action Traffic Maintenance, Inc. has the discretion to consider an alternative combination of formal training/education and work experience for the Foreman and Superintendent positions. Furthermore, Action Traffic Maintenance, Inc. also reserves the right to alter or change compensation at any time with the approval of the company's Owners.

Skills and Experience:

• Experience operating construction equipment
• Experience as a material handler
• Experience operating yard equipment
• Previous experience as a leader, providing guidance and support to team members
• Ability to use hand tools.
• Welding
• Ability to accurately read a level and a tape measure.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here represent those an employee encounters while performing the job's essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, sit, walk, climb, use hands and fingers, talk, hear, view, and create written documents. The employee uses hand strength to grasp tools and climb ladders or uneven terrain. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms, such as operating and repairing vibrating machinery, using wrenches, hand tools, etc., and operating motorized equipment and vehicles. The employee must lift or push/pull objects up to 75 lbs., occasionally up to 100 lbs. without assistance.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee frequently works near moving mechanical parts and is exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and the risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.