Overview:
A scrap metal recycling company is seeking a hands-on Operations Manager with strong heavy equipment experience to oversee daily facility operations. This is a working management role, with approximately 80–85% of the day spent actively involved in yard operations.
The ideal candidate brings experience managing multiple locations, leading employees, allocating resources, and meeting production goals while maintaining safety, customer service, and cost controls.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee ferrous and non-ferrous operations, dispatch, scale office, maintenance, and scrap removal.
- Manage staffing, hiring, training, performance, discipline, and terminations.
- Operate loaders, skid steers, forklifts, and hydraulic cranes; perform light equipment maintenance.
- Coordinate personnel, equipment, and materials to meet daily operating goals.
- Build and maintain relationships with industrial accounts, public customers, vendors, and internal teams.
- Maintain safety and environmental compliance, including proper scale operation.
- Manage operating costs, expenditures, maintenance planning, and inventory.
- Prepare and review daily and monthly operating and transaction reports; reconcile inventory and report production results to ownership.
Qualifications:
- At least 6 years of management experience required; 10+ years of supervisory experience preferred.
- Heavy equipment operation and scrap metal recycling experience required; 2+ years in each preferred.
- Experience managing multiple locations.
- Strong communication, time management, problem-solving, and team leadership skills.
- Ability to review operating data, reconcile transactions, and maintain confidential information.
- Dependable, self-motivated, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, physically demanding environment.
For additional information:
Kate DiMatteo
Phone: 610-421-1231
Email: kdimatteo@unitedemployment.com
