Assistant Lumber Yard Manager

Job Overview

The Marvin Home Center (MHC), located in Warroad, MN, is seeking a Lumber Yard Manager with outstanding customer service experience, demonstrated leadership ability, and excellent inventory management capabilities. This role is responsible to lead a team of lumberyard associates and delivery drivers in providing an excellent experience for all customers in a safe manner. Consistently demonstrate the highest level of ethical conduct when dealing with customers, team members and management.

Highlights of your role

• Assist the yard manager in providing excellent leadership and performance management to ensure lumberyard associates perform their job successfully
• Maintain a clean, organized, and safe workplace in the lumberyard and on delivery sites
• Assist the yard Manager to Coach, motivate and train associates on such items as product knowledge, building deliveries, how to operate and maintain equipment, salesmanship, and customer service
• May be responsible for store opening and closing procedures
• Assistant Yard Manager is the Inventory Champion for the Building materials and will work directly with the Building and Construction Manager to maintain stock and to do cycle counts.
• Assist customers with products from start to finish
• Work with Building and Construction Manager on product selection, merchandising and efficient buying, while establishing proper inventory levels for seasonal and staple products
• Address customer service issues, supplier issues and negotiations
• Lead a team with sometimes tight deadlines for material deliveries

You're a good fit if you have (or if you can)

• A friendly and approachable demeanor
• 3-5 years of relevant experience; management experience preferred
• Have a CDL (prefer class a) or can get one in a reasonable amount of time
• Have a US Passport with legal access to Canada or can get one in a reasonable amount of time
• Experience with forklift, bobcat, and other delivery equipment
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong leadership skills
• Positive attitude and able to motivate others
• Good working knowledge of the products that are typically carried at the Home Center
• On the job troubleshooting and conflict management
• Excellent time management skills
• Ability to lift 100 pounds occasionally and pass physical assessment to a very heavy level
• Ability to spend an extended period working in a standing/walking position

We invite you to See Yourself at Marvin

From people to products, Marvin is committed to creating better ways of living. When you join this family-owned and -led window and door company, you belong to a community full of opportunities.

 

For more than a century, we’ve been at the forefront of designing, building, and engineering premium, award-winning products. Today, Marvin is also proud to have been named a Top Large Employer by Forbes Magazine two years in a row, in 2024 and 2025. With operations in 19 cities across North America, we manufacture Marvin’s quality products, including Infinity Replacement Windows and Doors, and TruStile Doors.

 

Together, we uphold our values and foster a culture where safety and the wellbeing of our people comes first. We take a better living approach with benefits to support you at work and beyond. From day one, you will enjoy health insurance, paid holidays, paid parental leave, a 401(k) retirement savings match and more!

 

Some of our unique and most popular benefits include:

• $300 annual wellbeing account to spend on what helps you feel happy + healthy
• Better Living Day! (a paid day off to go have some fun)
• Annual profit sharing – recognizing everyone’s contribution to Marvin’s success
• Giving at Marvin – participate in organized volunteer opportunities
• Brighter Days Fund – financial support from your colleagues and the Marvin family during personal hardships

Join the more than 8,000 Marvin team members to experience these benefits and more. Apply today!

Marvin is an Equal Opportunity Employer

This job posting is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities of the employee. Accommodation may be made to enable an individual with a disability to perform the essential functions of the position. Any employment offer depends on completing a background check and drug screen to company standards. 

 

Compensation

$55,300 - $73,700 annually