Non-Ferrous Manager

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.

Responsibilities

• Supervised daily operations of the non-ferrous yard, adjusting processing activities to meet production demands and improve efficiencies.
• Directed and managed a team of employees, including training, performance oversight, and administering disciplinary action when necessary.
• Enforced company and OSHA safety standards; led by example to promote a safe work environment.
• Conducted monthly yard inspections and physical inventory counts; reviewed equipment inspections on a daily basis.
• Oversaw preparation and review of outbound shipments; graded inbound and outbound materials to ensure quality and compliance.
• Coordinated workflow to maintain continuous operations while identifying and addressing process improvements.
• Actively participated in the company's safety program, reporting unsafe acts or conditions and driving corrective measures.

Requirements

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
• Physical ability to perform heavy labor
• Mechanical aptitude
• Strong safety values

Physical Demands

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 the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is frequently required to sit; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally 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 ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Our Principles

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.