Yards-person

Job Title: Yardsperson

Location: Based in Andover, Hampshire

Contract type: Permanent

Hours per week: Full-time

Salary: up to £24.5k DOE

Reporting to: After Sales Operations Manager & Workshop Supervisor.

Job Purpose:

Först is a brand driven by energy and passion. We are a family, a winning team of like-minded individuals who exist to produce more than woodchippers, together our mission is to back our customers to create a better environment.

Each one of our valued team members plays a vital role in helping us to advance Arboriculture by delivering customer experiences, products and business partnerships that enable our customers to run their businesses more efficiently. In turn, this achieves our vision to shape a sustainable environment through innovation and customer-focused solutions.

Our Yardsperson plays a crucial role in driving us forward in the UK and is vital to our department’s mission to turn the planet orange! You will be maintaining a tidy and fully operational yard/workshop to make sure our engineers and technicians can keep delivering the exceptional service we are known for.

This role is open to those with previous or transferable experience however, Först would also be open to bringing on an enthusiastic trainee to upskill and invest in.

Key responsibilities:

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  Tidying and maintenance of the yard and workshop, ensuring tools, pallets and products are in their place and safely stored.
• Loading and unloading of lorries/vans, ensuring products/stock are intact, labelled and correctly stored.
• Washing down machines after they have been through the workshop cycle.
• Assisting with multi department requirements.
• Adapting to the needs of the day; this role is variable in tasks and requirements, the above is only a guideline of standard role responsibilities. This may include earlier starts/later finishes (compensated with overtime pay).

Person specification:

Relevant experience

Previous experience in a similar role or industry would be desirable but those with passion for the industry or engineering who are willing to learn will also be considered

Working in a physically demanding role

Skills

Forklift licence is preferable

Quick thinking with a ability to problem-solve

Good communication skills with the ability to integrate into an existing team

Personal attributes

Friendly and professional with a ‘can-do’ attitude

Happy to get stuck in and adapt to the requirements of the day

Willing to learn (if less experienced) as there is the opportunity for career progression