Metals Recycling Leadership Trainee

Radius Recycling; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Radius Recycling Industries, Inc. in Portland, Oregon invites applicants to join its Manager in Training - Metals program.

This field-based, hands-on development role rotates through safety, operations, maintenance, procurement, and finance to build future leaders who drive safety, service, cost control, and profits. Participants learn through coaching, shadowing, and stretch assignments while contributing to material flow, shredder operations, and customer and supplier interactions.

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.

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.

Skills

Communication

Numeracy

Organization

Problem solving

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Radius Recycling Industries, Inc. in Portland, Oregon invites applicants to join its Manager in Training - Metals program.

This field-based, hands-on development role rotates through safety, operations, maintenance, procurement, and finance to build future leaders who drive safety, service, cost control, and profits. Participants learn through coaching, shadowing, and stretch assignments while contributing to material flow, shredder operations, and customer and supplier interactions.