Material Return Specialist

PARR is the single and total source for home building supplies, solutions, and services for professional home builders of large and mid-sized communities and single custom homes, and for motivated homeowners working on home improvement projects. Our customers and community members know they can rely on us to be the total source of home building supplies and solutions with legendary customer service and quality products.

Job title: Material Return Specialist

Pay: Starting at $20 - $24 an hour, depending on experience.

Schedule: Monday-Friday 6am to 4pm

Location: Vancouver, Washington

The Material Return Coordinator safely and efficiently performs the process of receiving re-sellable materials back into yard inventory. The Coordinator is essential to help ensure that all material returns are received properly and in a timely order to meet our customer expectation of 5 business days from pickup to process.

This position reports directly to the Yard Supervisor. Will work closely with the Receiving Coordinator and will interact daily with the Regional Yard Supervisor, Yard Supervisor, Load Builders, Customer Service Employees, Truck Drivers, and vendor delivery drivers

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required
• Load building and/or customer service experience
• OSHA Certified Forklift license (training will be provided)
• Ability to speak, write, and read English required
• Ability to measure correct lineal footage totals on returns
• Ability to make decisions whether or not materials qualify to be returned
• Ability to load and unload materials from company fleet in a safe manner
• Ability to read grades of lumber and other materials
• Must be able to operate forklift, banding machine, tin snips, tape measure, power saws, hand truck, pallet jack, re-fueling stations, and any other equipment necessary for the job
• Knowledge of receiving/inventory control principles, practices and protocols preferred
• Two years of experience working with dimension lumber and panel products and other building materials preferred
• Acceptable driving record preferred

Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensures incoming material returns are properly staged with appropriate recognition tags
• Ensures that special order and/or nonstock items are addressed immediately with Receiving coordinator/Yard Supervisor and properly tagged for vendor return
• Maintains a neat organized material return transition location
• Checks all paperwork for accuracy
• Performs daily safety audit of forklift and promptly reports any malfunctioning equipment
• Comes to work professionally attired
• Helps in overall cleanliness of location
• Strives for timely credits to customer/partners as per company guidelines
• Ensures "cover sheets" and "bottom boards" are considered in the return
• Requires all necessary vendor paperwork for material being picked up
• Quality of work is focused on accuracy, not speed
• Maintains a return area to company standards of cleanliness and organization
• Ensures that all resalable material that is returned is placed in proper location as stock at completion of write up
• Works with the Load builder in an efficient manner
• Keeps and reviews file to assure credit is received
• Represents the company in a positive and professional manner Understands and follows company Material Returns policy
• Identifies areas of opportunities for better practices pertaining to handling of products along with packaging for severe weather conditions
• Demonstrates the ability to count and measure al returned products
• Has basic Falcon knowledge, ability to look up skus
• Basic understanding of return process, knows who to take documentation too once material is verified and MRF is properly fill out
• Ability to navigate Falcon menus and knowledge of SKUs
• Works with receiver or Management to ensure vendor return POs are created at time MRF is being processed with proper restock costing
• Tag and places vendor returns in appropriate rack for vendor drivers pickup
• Identifies dimensional lumber, panels and other basic building products
• Ability to be selective and differentiate between cull and resalable material
• Operates a forklift according to company standard
• Assumes responsibility for vendor returns, creates the return PO and contacts the vendor for pickup
• Processes returns from start to finish
• Utilizes vendor tracking form to assist with improving vendor performance
• Inspects materials for damage prior to unloading if ap