About the Role

We are seeking a Full Time member of our TradeTools store team to work an 11-day fortnightly roster: This is an excellent opportunity for a fit enthusiastic person to learn the industrial tool industry from the ground up. Even some of our senior managers started here in goods-in positions and have gone on to build a stable and lucrative career within this dynamic well known family company.

Week 1: Monday – Friday

Week 2: Monday – Saturday

We are closed every Sunday and National Public Holidays, and we don’t open late night Thursday.

Reporting to the Store Manager, the store persons responsibilities will include:

• Building relationships with our many suppliers and long term customers
• Liaising with internal departments, other stores and our Business Development Representatives to exceed customer expectations
• In-store inventory management
• Processing inbound stock
• Picking and Packing outbound stock
• Assembling items for display
• If the warehouse is up to date then, if you wish, you can join our sales team on the floor learning the ropes of this important trade based industry.

Key to your success will be:

• A keen interest to build a strong and sustainable career with a company where everyone earns a lucrative salary and commission structure based on our previous weeks turnover.
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Reliability, honesty and consistency
• Strong relationship building skills
• A willingness to learn and share

Who are we?

Established in 1987, TradeTools is a proud family-owned Queensland company trusted to provide the best tools and equipment to trades and businesses. We employ hundreds of people in sites all over Queensland and Northern New South Wales.

What do we offer?

At TradeTools, we know that it‘s our people that set us apart, so we look after them with an excellent base salary AND commission (calculated on the stores performance) - both paid weekly! Plus superannuation and other usual holiday & sick leave benefits!

Last Financial Year, the average salary before tax & excluding Super was $75,000 for this role!

We offer additional incentives including employee focused competitions, social events, generous staff discounts and the opportunity to become an employee shareholder for long serving staff.

Our average length of employee service is over 8 years, surely a strong sign that we really look after our people!

If you have energy and passion, we offer a challenging and rewarding career with genuine progression opportunities and job security. For example, most of our Managers have started in junior roles and progressed through the business.

We have a collaborative and supportive culture that rewards commitment, teamwork and achieving our goals. With an in-house training program, our aim is to support & grow confident, knowledgeable, service orientated, technical sales-people and support staff – not just order takers or plodders.

We’ll offer successful candidates a full time position supported by training and development to get you started on the right path. Then there is also ongoing training and development that will see you reach your full potential in a growing, family owned company that is well known for its commitment to excellent service to our customers, and offering excellent employment opportunities to our people.

Previous tool or trade experience is an advantage, but it’s not essential. If you have a strong consumer goods, sales or retail background, have been on the tools, are in the latter part of your career, or are just great at selling and have a technical mind, then we want to meet you!!!

You can see more of what we sell and do at our website, www.tradetools.com, or call our HR team on (07)5540 6400 to find out more.