Metals Recycling Operations Trainee - Leadership Path

Pick-n-Pull Auto and Truck Dismantlers; Oakland (CA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Radius Recycling Industries, Inc. seeks a Manager in Training - Metals to rotate through safety, operations, procurement, and finance while building leadership and cost-control skills.

You’ll shadow leaders, tackle projects, and learn how decisions impact safety, service, cost, and profitability in a field-based environment. The program blends classroom-style learning with hands-on field assignments, coaching, and performance reviews to prepare you for future operations leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong communication, math, organization, follow-through, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to learn and follow safety, environmental, operational, commercial, financial, approval, and documentation expectations in an active industrial environment.

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

Strong communication

Math skills

Organizational skills

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

Radius Recycling Industries, Inc. seeks a Manager in Training - Metals to rotate through safety, operations, procurement, and finance while building leadership and cost-control skills.

You’ll shadow leaders, tackle projects, and learn how decisions impact safety, service, cost, and profitability in a field-based environment. The program blends classroom-style learning with hands-on field assignments, coaching, and performance reviews to prepare you for future operations leadership.