Build Your Future at NWPX
At NWPX Infrastructure, we manufacture welded steel pipe and precast products that form the backbone of America’s water infrastructure. It’s work you can be proud of—and an opportunity to advance your career with a company committed to your professional growth and well-being.
Our brands—Northwest Pipe Company, NWPX Park, and NWPX Geneva—set the standard for safety, quality, innovation, and performance. Guided by our core values of Accountability, Commitment, and Teamwork, our people work collaboratively to deliver reliable products and trusted service to our customers—while building stable, rewarding careers along the way.
For over 50 years, NWPX has been a leader in reliable water infrastructure solutions, and our people are the foundation of our success. Build your future with us and be part of a legacy grounded in water.
WHAT NWPX OFFERS YOU:
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D Insurance
- Paid Vacation, Holidays, and Sick Time
- 401k Retirement Savings Plan with Employer Match
- On-Demand Pay (Access Your Earned Wages Before Payday)
- Bonus Potential
- Up to $5,000 per year Tuition Reimbursement
- Safety Footwear and Eyewear Voucher (Day 1 of Employment)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Opportunities for Career Advancement
- Values-Driven Culture Committed to Equal Opportunities and Safety
JOB SUMMARY:
Under limited supervision, coordinates work activities of Yard employees, oversees stock and yard arrangement, and assists with shipping tasks.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
- Coordinates work activities of Yard employees.
- Oversees stock in Yard.
- Oversees arrangement of pipe in Yard.
- Completes payroll on a daily basis for Yard employees.
- Schedules Yard employees.
- Completes daily shipping report.
- Completes shipping report to Buyer.
- Sends invoice(s) to customers.
- Creates Bill of Lading.
- Loads trucks.
- Assists Yard Coordinator/Yard Laborer.
- Operates equipment as needed.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Assists Shipping Supervisor with day to day responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable law.
QUALIFICATIONS:
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
- High school diploma or general education (GED); or one to three months related experience and/or training.
- Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
- Ability to write simple correspondence.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
- Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
- Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
- Computer skills: Specifically Microsoft office. SAP experience preferred.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:
- Forklift
- Crane
- Water Truck
ASSOCIATED COMPETENCIES:
- Formal Communications
- Influence
- Innovation
- NWP Understanding
- Organizing & Planning
- Performance Management
- Risk / Change Mastery
- Talent Development - Coaching & Teaching
- Safety Orientation
- Functional/ Technical Knowledge
- Quality Orientation
- Team Skills
PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORK ENVIRONMENT:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Project timelines and work volume/deadlines may often require working outside of standard office hours, weekend, or evening work.
Regular, reliable and predictable attendance is necessary in order to perform the essential functions of this position.
Physical Activity
Over 2/3 of the time:
- Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized. (This factor is important if the amount and kind of climbing required exceeds that required for ordinary locomotion.)
- Reaching: Grabbing things from a distance above or from the side.
- Standing: Remaining upright in a stationary position, particularly for sustained periods.
- Walking: Moving about to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
- Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling the computer keyboard.
- Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly,
- Communicating: Expressing or exchanging ideas and information accurately in written or diagram form.
- Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sounds.
- Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists hands, and/or fingers such as typing, twisting and tightening.
Up to 2/3 of the time:
- Stooping: Positions self to pick up tools and materials factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the full use of the lower extremities and back muscles.
- Kneeling/Crouching: Position self to pick up tools or material and stull pipe.
- Crawling Moving about to position self to pick up tools or material and stull pipe
- Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position. (This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.
- Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm to pick up material and / or tools.
- Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
Less than 1/3 of the time:
- Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing or coughing on narrow, slippery or erratically moving surfaces. (This factor is important if the amount and kind of balancing the amounts and kind of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
- Pulling: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to trust forward downward or outward.
- Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw drag haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
Physical Requirements
- Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling or otherwise moving objects, including the human body. (Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.)
Visual Acuity
- The worker is required to have visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned (i.e. custodial, foods service, general labor, etc.) or to make general observations of facilities or structures (i.e. security guard, inspection, etc.)
Vision Requirements:
Over 2/3 of time the worker is required to have:
- The worker is required to have close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less)
- The worker is required to have distance vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more)
- The worker is required to have color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors)
- The worker is required to have peripheral vision (ability to observe an area that can be seen up and down or to the left and right while eyes are fixed on given point)
- The worker is required to have depth perception (three dimensional vision, ability to judge distances and spatial relationships)
- The worker is required to have the ability to adjust visual focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus.
Weather Conditions
Up to 2/3 of the time:
- The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions: Protection form weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.
- The worker is subject to outside environmental conditions: No effective protection from weather.
- The worker is subject to outside environmental conditions: activities occur inside and outside.
- The worker is subject to extreme cold: Temperatures typically below 32 degrees for periods of more than one hour. (Consideration should be given to the effect of other environmental conditions such as wind and humidity.)
- The worker is subject to extreme heat: Temperatures above 100 degrees for periods of more than one hour. (Consideration should be given to the effect of other environmental conditions such as wind and humidity
- The worker is subject to noise: There is sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above the ambient noise level.
Less than 1/3 of the time:
- The worker is subject to vibration: Exposure to oscillating movements of the extremities or whole body.
- The worker us subject to hazards: Includes a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, moving vehicles, electrical current, working on scaffolding and high places, exposure to high heat or exposure to chemicals.
- The worker is subjects to atmospheric conditions: One or more of the following conditions that affect the respiratory system of the skin: Fumes, odors dusts mists gases or poor ventilation.
- The worker is subject to oils: There is air and/or skin exposure to oils and other cutting fluids.
- The worker frequently is in close quarters, crawl spaces, shafts, man holes small enclosed room’s small sewage and water line pipes, and other areas which could cause claustrophobia.
Noise Levels
Over 2/3 of the time:
- Moderate noise (examples: business office with computers and printers, light traffic)
Up to 2/3 of the time:
- Loud noise (examples: metal can be manufacturing department large earth-moving equipment)
- Very loud noise (example: jack hammer work, front row at rock concert)
Supervision Received:
- General Supervision: The incumbent normally receives little instruction on day –to day- work and receives instructions on new assignments.
Personal Protective Equipment is required when in the Plant, Yard or Construction Areas:
- Hard Hat
- Safety Glasses
- Steel-toed Boots
- Hearing Protection
- Reflective Vest
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Except where prohibited by state law, offers of employment may be contingent upon the successful completion of a background check, drug test, and/or physical examination, as determined by the essential functions and physical requirements of the position.
NWPX Infrastructure is committed to equal employment opportunity. Veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
NWPX Infrastructure reserves the right to close the position, with or without notice, if a qualified candidate is identified prior to the close date.
