Metals Operations Leader in Training

Socket.dev; Lithonia (GA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Radius Recycling Industries, Inc. seeks a Manager in Training - Metals to grow into operations leadership.

This field-based program rotates through safety, environmental, operations, commercial, logistics, maintenance, purchasing, and finance, to learn how the business works and how to improve results. As a trainee you will receive coaching, shadowing, and stretch assignments, learning safe work practices, material flow, shredder and recovery operations, and cost-aware decision making that

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Valid driver’s license and ability to travel as required for training, field exposure, and business needs.
• Ability to learn and follow safety, environmental, operational, commercial, financial, approval, and documentation expectations in an active industrial environment.
• Strong communication, math, organization, follow-through, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work under deadline pressure, analyze information, use sound judgment, and communicate professionally with employees, customers, suppliers, peers, and leaders.

Responsibilities

• Learn and follow Radius Recycling safety and environmental expectations.
• Help identify hazards, prevent incidents, report concerns, support corrective actions, and protect employees, customers, suppliers, visitors, company property, and the community.
• Work with operations teams to learn daily routines, material flow, scale and inspection work, facility operations, production needs, staffing coordination, equipment use, shipment readiness, and problem solving.
• Learn how buying, selling, freight, processing costs, material quality, supplier relationships, customer service, and market conditions affect business decisions and profit.
• Learn how maintenance keeps operations safe, reliable, and cost-effective through preventive maintenance, downtime response, work orders, vendor support, documentation, and clear communication with operations leaders.
• Understand how inspection, metal identification, production records, inventory reporting, quality control, budgets, forecasts, business reviews, and key measures connect daily decisions to safety, cost, profit, and business performance.
• Take part in coaching, team communication, meetings, check-ins, stretch assignments, and improvement projects that build readiness to lead people, solve problems, keep commitments, and improve results.
• Supports Internal Control process which includes understanding, communicating, and complying with defined internal controls as well as suggesting and making modifications to the policies, procedures, and controls to better match the business.
• This role requires regular work in office and active industrial environments, including outdoor recycling yards with uneven surfaces, noise, dust, weather exposure, moving equipment, and heavy machinery.

Skills

Strong communication

Math skills

Organization

Problem-solving

Attention to safety

Leadership potential

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Radius Recycling Industries, Inc. seeks a Manager in Training - Metals to grow into operations leadership.

This field-based program rotates through safety, environmental, operations, commercial, logistics, maintenance, purchasing, and finance, to learn how the business works and how to improve results. As a trainee you will receive coaching, shadowing, and stretch assignments, learning safe work practices, material flow, shredder and recovery operations, and cost-aware decision making that