Builders' merchant

As a builders' merchant, you'll help to make creative building and gardening projects come to life! You'll sell and hire out a wide range of products for DIY and professional building. It's a great role if you like helping customers and you're interested in construction equipment, garden supplies and home products.

Builders' merchants deal with products such as:

• timber

• bricks, cement and stone

• decorating materials

• plumbing supplies

• construction tools and equipment

• gardening equipment and landscaping supplies

Your tasks might include:

• advising customers about products

• taking customers around bathroom or kitchen showrooms

• loading and unloading deliveries by hand or with a forklift truck

• processing orders and handling payments

• putting orders together and organising deliveries

• assisting with general sales

With experience, you could work as a team leader or yard manager. In these roles, you'll have more responsibilities – such as training staff, ordering stock and enforcing health and safety rules.

Green job        

In this job you could be doing work to help the environment. You could:     

• sell sustainable and eco-friendly products

• hire out machinery instead of selling it, as a way to reduce waste

• recycle as many waste products as possible

Find out more about green jobs. 

• Builders Merchant Careers – industry and careers website from the Builders Merchants Federation

• One Voice – the official Builders Merchants Federation magazine