Yard Manager

Join Our Team at Travis Perkins to Provide Exceptional Customer Service.

Travis Perkins, a prominent supplier of building materials to the construction industry, is seeking a Yard Manager to ensure the safe and efficient operation of our yard, warehouse and transport operation. This critical customer-facing position involves supervising and inspiring a team of Yard Assistants who interact with our customers daily.

Where Will You Be Working?

Travis Perkins is a network of 500+ branches that supply quality timber, building materials, kitchens, plumbing and heating, landscaping, painting and decorating essentials, and tools to trade professionals and self-builders across the UK. Our Queensferry branch employs 9 staff across sales, drivers, tool hire, and yard, and we run 3 delivery vehicles.

What Benefits Will You Receive?

Our Yard Manager role offers:

• Excellent salary + Annual bonus

• 22 days holiday plus bank holidays

• Save As You Earn & Buy As You Earn schemes

• Group Life Assurance/Contributory pension scheme

• Rewards & discounts with over 1,000 retailer offers

• Colleague recognition awards, employee assistance programme, wagestream financial wellbeing app, and salary deducted loans.

What Will You Be Doing as Yard Manager?

• You'll manage yard operations and staff, including our vehicle drivers

• You'll process customer orders, load and unload customer and company vehicles, and unload building products from supplier deliveries

• As a key customer-facing role, you'll build strong relationships with customers by delivering the highest standards of service

• You'll ensure that safety is at the forefront of everything we do and maintain a tidy and safe working environment at all times

• You'll need to be physically on the move, adaptable, resilient and tenacious, and thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment

Does this Sound Like You?

This is a key customer facing role, you just need the ability to provide great customer service, we can teach you the rest.  

Are you:

•  Highly adaptable, resilient and tenacious with high levels of energy and drive

• Someone that is physically active, as this role is located outside, it will involve lifting heavy building materials

• Someone who thrives in a dynamic and fast paced environment.

•  Friendly and outgoing, happy to communicate face to face to build strong lasting relationships

• Previous experience managing a small team

At Travis Perkins, we're proud to be a great place to work, and we've been voted one of the UK's top employers every year since 2010. We offer our employees access to extensive career opportunities across our five amazing businesses, and we operate out of more than 1400 outlets nationwide.

Remember, you be you, it makes us, us.

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