Material Return Specialist

PARR is the total source for homebuilding supplies, solutions, and services. We focus on supplying building materials and solutions to professional home builders of all sizes including custom builders, large production builders, and multifamily builders. Our customers and community members know that they can rely on us for Legendary Service and quality products.

Pay: $22.14 - $26.62

The Material Return Specialist safely and efficiently performs the process of receiving re-sellable materials back into yard inventory. The Specialist 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 through completion of process. The process includes tallying, inspection, and sorting of material, creating farm packs, vendor return PO’s, scheduling material returns to the vendor, and writing and invoicing credit notes in the system.

This full-time position reports directly to the Assistant Manager or Location Supervisor, works closely with and is a backup for the Receiving Coordinator, Salespeople, Vendor partners and will interact daily with the Load Builders, Lumberyard Associates, Drivers, Dispatchers, and vendor delivery truck drivers.

• 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
• 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 tallying, inspection, and sorting of material
• Works with the Load Builder in an efficient manner
• Reviews open PO report to assure credit PO’s are received
• Represents the company in a positive and professional manner
• Perform other related duties as assigned
• 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 all returned products
• Ability to gain in-depth ERP knowledge, write Credit Notes and create Supplier Returns
• Basic understanding of return process, knows who to process documentation once material is verified and MRF is properly fill out
• Ensures Supplier Return PO’s are created at the time the Credit Note is processed with proper restock costing
• Identifies dimensional lumber, panels, #1 vs #2, and other basic building products
• Ability to be selective and differentiate between cull and resalable material
• Operates a forklift according to company standard
• Responsible for Supplier Returns, creates SRPO, contacts vendor for pickup and tracks product until completion of pick-up
• Processes returns from start to finish
• Utilizes Supplier Return report to assist with improving vendor performance
• Inspects materials for damage prior to unloading customer vehicle (if applicable)
• Validates material matches the MRF and return PO
• Identifies specialty products (EWP, Composite decking, etc.)
• Works with receiver and Operational Inventory Controller (OIC) to investigate and resolve situations where inventory counts are incorrect
• Ensures proper labeling of all special orders, vendor returns, and inter-yard transfers
• Wears proper high visibility proper uniform as needed
• Safety gear is always utilized (seatbelt, eye protection, ear etc.)
• Performs daily lift inspections
• Minimal product damage
• Operates forklift clean
• Operates equipment safely
• Looks behind/honks horn when…