Yard Coordinator
Company: Orion Talent
Job Ref: # 1017703
Date Posted: 12/11/2025 12:00:00 AM
City, State: Memphis, TN
Description
Go to end ⇓The Yard Coordinator is responsible for the efficient organization, tracking, and movement of construction equipment, tools, materials, and parts through the staging yard. This role serves as the critical link between off-site storage, warehouse, and active construction/operational sites, ensuring the right assets are in the right place at the right time to support daily and weekly project requirements while minimizing delays and downtime.
Essential Functions
- Organize and optimize yard layout for safe, accessible storage of equipment, containers,
- tools, and parts awaiting deployment to operational/construction sites.
- Conduct regular physical inventories and maintain accurate digital records in tracking
- systems (e.g., asset management software, ERP modules, spreadsheets, or custom
- databases).
- Receive, inspect, stage, and prepare equipment and materials for outbound transport;
- coordinate inbound returns and rented equipment and demobilization.
- Schedule and coordinate transportation (internal fleet or third-party haulers) between
- the yard and multiple operational/construction sites to meet daily and weekly priorities.
- Act as a key point of contact for site superintendents, construction managers, and
- operations teams; proactively communicate availability, shortages, and delivery ETAs.
- Identify bottlenecks in yard-to-site flow and lead or participate in process-improvement
- initiatives (layout changes, labeling standards, digital tracking enhancements, load-out
- checklists, etc.).
- Ensure compliance with safety, environmental, and company policies in all yard
- operations (proper blocking/bracing, hazard identification, housekeeping).
- Generate reports on inventory levels, turnover rates, equipment utilization, and transport
- efficiency for management review.
- Collaborate with procurement, warehouse, maintenance, and logistics teams to resolve
- discrepancies and improve overall supply chain velocity.
Skills and Qualifications
- Exceptional communicator – direct and transparent, skilled problem-solver with proven
- success in building coalitions and avoiding conflicts
- Total ownership mentality – proactively identifies and removes obstacles across
- numerous ongoing tasks
- Independent thinker – provides original thoughts and constantly asking “how can we do
- this better”
- Innovative thinker – willingness to consider novel solutions ability to adapt to change
- Desirable teammate – impeccable character, humility, and collaborative
- Relentless – aspires to contribute and achieve his/her full potential
- Experience/Education
- High School Diploma or GED
- 3+ years of experience in construction yard operations, logistics coordination,
- warehousing, or equipment rental/staging environments.
- Strong proficiency with inventory/tracking software (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Asset Panda,
- Excel, or similar); ability to create and maintain dashboards and reports.
- Excellent organizational skills with a proven ability to optimize space and flow in
- dynamic, high-volume yards.
- Solid understanding of heavy equipment, tools, and construction materials handling
- and transport requirements.
- Demonstrated success in process improvement projects (Lean, 5S, Kaizen, or similar
- methodologies a plus).
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills; comfortable interfacing with field
- crews, drivers, and management.
- Valid driver’s license; forklift/telehandler and mobile crane certification preferred.


























