Regional Distribution Center - Yard Jockey

Yard Jockey

Are you looking for an opportunity to turn your ambition and your people skills into a rewarding career with an industry leader? Join our team at American Tire Distributors! As the nation's premier tire distributor, ATD's coast-to-coast distribution network provides approximately 80,000 customers across the U.S. and Canada with rapid and frequent delivery of high quality tires, custom wheels and shop supplies.

The Yard Jockey's primary duties include relocating and positioning of trailers / containers for loading and unloading as well as maintaining organization of the drop yard. He / she works closely with Operations Supervisor, dispatcher, gatekeeper, inbound coordinator, and warehouse leads to maintain smooth flow of trailers / containers into and out of the drop yard. Operates Ottawa Yard truck to transport trailers / containers from drop yard to designated dock door as needed. Performs daily inspections of yard truck and / or equipment to ensure proper working order and reports any non-working and / or unsafe equipment conditions to management as needed. Responds to inquiries from operations team relating to trailer / container arrival and departures.

Primary Responsibilities :

• Uses the morning "Yard Audit sheet" to perform a yard check for all outbound yard trailers to report what loaded trailers are still in the yard and validates which empty trailer arrived at the yard after hours; provides completed "yard log sheet" to dispatcher.
• Utilizes the afternoon "Yard Audit sheet checklist" to document which containers are empty, loaded from previous day, and which containers have arrived at the Mixing Center daily; provides completed "yard log sheet checklist" to dispatcher and keeps the gatekeeper informed of findings daily.
• Operates Ottawa Yard truck to transport trailers from yard drop slot to designated dock door as needed.
• Utilizes Blue Yonder Yard management system to complete all trailer moves in the YMS system.
• Obtains outbound schedules to assign trailer ID numbers to designated dock doors for warehouse personnel to load required outbound shipments.
• Utilizes Ottawa yard truck to pull loaded outbound trailers away from the docks; ensures all trailers doors are closed and bolt security ID seal is inserted for each loaded outbound trailer.
• Utilizes yard truck to connect and transport containers from drop lot to designated dock doors to unload accordingly; cuts security ID seal, opens and secures doors prior to backing container into dock door.
• Uses the "Vehicle Pre-trip Inspection Form" daily prior to usage to ensure proper working order / integrity of the yard truck; reports any non-working and / or unsafe equipment conditions to Management as needed.
• Confirms daily integrity of drop yard and fencing to the Operations Manager to ensure physical security within the mixing center; stages all trailers against the wall bumpers for security measures to prevent pilferage.
• Responds to inquiries from operations team relating to trailer / container arrival and departures.
• Any other applicable duties and responsibilities assigned by management.

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This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying the position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodation. Nothing in this job description creates a contract of employment in any way for any person. All employees hired by American Tire Distributors, Inc. are employees at will and the company reserves the right to terminate employees at any time for any reason or no reason at all.

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