Company: Orion Talent
Job Ref: # 8127264
Date Posted: 12/11/2025 12:00:00 AM
City, State: Memphis, TN
Category: Energy
Job Description
The Lead Yard Coordinator oversees all staging yard operations and serves as the primary interface between logistics, warehouse, yard coordination, and construction/operations teams. This role is responsible for managing a team of yard coordinators and operators, driving operational excellence, and ensuring seamless, on time flow of equipment, tools, materials, and parts from the yard to multiple active construction and operational sites. The Lead acts as the central conduit for priority setting, issue resolution, and continuous improvement across the supply chain.
Essential Functions
- Supervise, train, and performance-manage a team of Yard Coordinators, equipment
- operators, and support personnel (scheduling, workload balancing, safety compliance,
- and professional development).
- Serve as the escalation point and primary liaison between logistics/procurement,
- warehouse, yard operations, construction superintendents, project managers, and
- operations teams to align on daily, weekly, and project-phase material/equipment
- requirements.
- Oversee yard layout optimization, inventory accuracy, and transportation coordination
- across multiple sites to eliminate delays and support aggressive construction schedules.
- Develop, implement, and enforce standard operating procedures (SOPs), safety
- protocols, and best practices for receiving, staging, load-out, and returns.
- Lead or champion process-improvement initiatives (Lean, 5S, digital tracking
- enhancements, yard zoning, predictive staging, etc.) to increase throughput and reduce
- costs.
- Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) such as on-time delivery, inventory accuracy,
- yard utilization, transport efficiency, and team productivity; prepare and present reports
- to senior management.
- Coordinate with logistics and procurement on inbound deliveries, vendor performance,
- and critical shortages; expedite solutions when construction timelines are at risk.
- Manage budget and resources for the yard operation (labor, equipment maintenance,
- third-party hauling, consumables).
- Ensure full compliance with OSHA, environmental, and company safety standards;
- conduct regular audits and safety meetings.
- Step in to perform hands-on yard coordination duties during peak periods or staffing
- gaps.
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
- 6+ years of progressive experience in construction yard operations, heavy equipment
- staging, logistics, or warehousing, with at least 2 years in a supervisory/lead role.
- Proven track record of leading teams in a fast-paced, outdoor construction-support
- environment.
- Advanced proficiency with inventory/asset tracking systems (SAP, Oracle, CMMS, or
- similar) and the ability to develop custom reports/dashboards.
- Strong understanding of construction sequencing, critical-path equipment needs,
- and heavy civil/industrial project logistics.
- Demonstrated success leading process-improvement projects that delivered
- measurable gains in efficiency and safety.
- Exceptional communication, conflict-resolution, and cross-functional collaboration
- skills; able to translate field needs into logistics actions and vice versa.
- Valid driver’s license; forklift/telehandler and mobile crane certification strongly
- preferred.
- Experience with budgeting, KPI tracking, and presenting to senior leadership.
- Ability to work outdoors in varying weather conditions and occasionally lift up to 50
- lbs
