Car Processing Operator

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Inspects materials and sorts items or materials into piles or places in bins or barrels according to type, size, condition, coloring, marking, or other characteristics
• Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits
• Operate machinery used in the production process or assist equipment operators
• Load and unload items from machines, conveyor and conveyances
• Ability to work both shifts
• Moves reusable materials to production department or storage
• Separates metal particles from waste
• Cleaning which includes; sweeping and shoveling residual waste from process
• Removes waste materials from conveyor
• Other duties may be assigned

Job Qualifications

• A high school diploma or general education degree (GED)
• One year minimum experience in a heavy industrial setting or equivalent combination of education and experience

Pay Rate

Pay Rate: $20.00/hr

Physical Demands

• Regularly stand and reach with hands and arms
• Frequently walk
• Frequent use of hands to finger, handle, or feel
• Frequent climbing or balancing
• Sometimes stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds
• Frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds
• Regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts
• Frequent exposure to high, precarious places and vibration
• Frequent exposure to outside weather conditions

About the Role

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 a responsible corporate citizen, we continuously seek new ways to broaden our participation in the environmental sector, ensuring that our future is as bright, safe, and secure as at any time in our long history.

Benefits

A career with Sims provides you with the opportunity to work with an organization whose goal is to be the world’s safest and most responsible recycling company. Our people achieve this by creating a zero-harm workplace, being exemplary members of the communities in which we operate, and being responsible stewards of the environment. We also offer competitive pay and a range of attractive benefits.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Sims is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value the diversity of all of our employees and are committed to creating an inclusive working environment where everyone can contribute, advance on merit, and realize their full potential. Sims does not discriminate with regard to race, sex, religion, color, national origin, citizenship status, disability, age, marital or familial status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, housing status, source of income, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws. This applies to any employment decision, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Principles of Purpose

To achieve our purpose to create a world without waste to preserve our planet, we are guided by our Principles of Purpose: Be Safe + Well, Band Together, Be Accountable + Transparent, Consistently Innovate, Inspire with Purpose, Celebrate + Have Fun.