Ferrous Recycling Manager

Sims Metal (Sims) is a global leader in metal recycling. With facilities across the globe, Sims plays an intrinsic role in the circular economy by making resources available for future use. As responsible corporate citizens, we continuously seek new ways to broaden our participation in the environmental sector, ensuring that our future is as bright, safe, and secure as ever in our long history.

The Ferrous Supervisor manages daily operations for iron scrap, focusing on leading teams, controlling material flow (sorting, processing, loading), ensuring quality/inventory, maintaining safety, and optimizing efficiency for profitability. Key duties include scheduling personnel/equipment, maintaining yard layout, overseeing processing, handling safety compliance, analyzing material, and reporting production metrics.

• Manage the daily operations of the Ferrous department.
• Adjust processing to meet production demands, improve inefficiencies, and meet shipping obligations (i.e., sales).
• Ensures perpetual inventory remains accurate throughout the month, and physically verifies the perpetual inventory on a periodic basis, by company standards.
• Coach, develop, and manage employees, including taking disciplinary steps as needed.
• Led and supported a lean operations strategy while ensuring industry-leading safety and environmental practices across the ferrous team.
• Lead the implementation of all aspects of the Sims EH&S Program (safety observations, incident investigations, critical control verifications, training, etc.) to ensure that our way of doing the job is always safe, environmentally responsible, and efficient.
• Conduct regular inspections across the facility and ensure corrective actions are implemented with the goal of operating as intended, in accordance with operational, environmental, and safety standards.
• Review inspections are completed by subordinates for accuracy and completeness and to ensure appropriate corrective actions are implemented.
• Work with the transportation and commercial teams to ensure that delivery deadlines are met.
• Lead and oversee the receiving of non-ferrous metal scrap/raw material.
• Assure proper grading, inspection, and pricing; communicate with the commercial team when received materials are not in conformance with specifications.
• Assure that all scrap suppliers experience superior customer service.
• Various other tasks will be required and assigned as needed for the continuous flow of operations at the facility.

• At least 3+ years of metal recycling and industrial experience preferred
• Prior knowledge of ferrous grading is a must
• At least 3+ years of supervisory experience
• High school diploma,
• A valid driver's license

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 essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms; climb or balance, and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

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