Yard Supervisor

Yard Supervisor
- Newry

We're looking for a Yard Supervisor to join our Newry team. In this role you'll supervise the yard team day-to-day, delivering safe, efficient loading, picking, and customer service. You'll lead from the front, set the standard, and bring the best out of your team.

Most of all, it's a role where what you do really matters, every day you'll help our customers build with confidence.

The successful candidate will be enthusiastic, energetic, and demonstrate a willingness to learn and develop new skills that will support a successful long‑term career with Haldane Fisher.

• Allocate and supervise daily operations within the yard.
• Monitoring and maintaining stock levels, stock condition and ensuring high standards of housekeeping.
• Daily management and enforcement of health & safety, yard safety and working-at-height controls.
• Promoting high levels of customer service, serving customers politely and professionally.
• Coordinating and assisting with deliveries, customer collections, and daily operational duties.
• Ensure accurate, timely loading and picking.
• Loading and unloading customer and company vehicles safely and efficiently.
• Support and train operatives.

Applications are invited from individuals who:

• Are committed and passionate about delivering excellent customer service.
• Are strong communicators.
• Can motivate a team and lead by example.
• Are hardworking and willing to learn.
• Have a keen interest in timber and building materials.

• Yard supervisory experience.
• FLT competence.
• Safety and people skills.
• Able to meet the health & safety, legislative and competency prerequisites for the role, including any required licences, tickets, training, and Opus SMS responsibilities.
• Personal attributes aligned to our values with a safety-first, customer-focused, and reliable approach.

• Merchant experience.
• IOSH Working Safely.

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

• Safety-first mindset: Treats health, safety, and wellbeing as a non‑negotiable priority for self and others.
• Integrity & respect: Acts honestly, ethically, and respectfully, doing what we say we will do.
• Accountability & ownership: Takes responsibility for own work, standards and commitments and sees tasks through.
• Teamwork & collaboration: Works supportively across sites, brands, and divisions to achieve shared goals.
• Coaching & support: Trains, guides and supports team members to build competence.
• Coordinating the team: Organises day-to-day work, allocates tasks and keeps the team on schedule.
• Customer focus: Puts internal and external customers at the centre of decisions and actions.
• Continuous improvement: Seeks better, safer, more efficient ways of working.
• Problem-solving: Resolves day-to-day operational issues quickly and pragmatically.

Monday - Friday 40.25 hours per week

Saturdays (alternating / on rota)

You'll join a friendly, supportive team where people stay, grow and do the best work of their careers and where your contribution is genuinely valued.

You'll get the training, accredited qualifications, and progression to build your career, alongside a benefits package designed to look after you and your family.

• Unlimited in-house training and development opportunities
• Staff discounts
• Contributory pension scheme
• Free on-site parking
• 30 days annual leave (including bank holidays)
• A competitive rate of pay within a well-respected company
• Access to our Medical Plan provided by Westfield Health

A proud, family-owned business with big ambitions, founded in 1946, we've spent nearly eight decades becoming one of the UK's top ten builders’ merchants.

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