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Hours:

7:45-4:30pm; flexible Saturdays late spring - early fall 8am-11:30am Benefits Health, dental, and vision coverage; paid time off; 401(k) with company match; ancillary benefit options; free Employee Assistance Program (EAP); referral program; and boot reimbursement.

Summary :

CW Companies is a long-standing leader in the metal recycling industry. We are built on a foundation of safety, responsibility, and long-term success for our employees. Growing every year, we are committed to rewarding hard work and promoting from within. A safety-first culture is our top priority—employees are expected to follow company protocols and stay accountable for keeping yourself and your co-workers safe. The Heavy Equipment Operator & Non-Ferrous Technician is responsible for identifying, inspecting, and processing incoming non-ferrous metals brought in for recycling. This role involves assessing and weighing materials, accurately categorizing them, and ensuring they are recorded correctly before placing them in designated areas for proper handling. Providing excellent customer service is essential, as this position requires interacting with the public, answering questions, and ensuring a smooth and efficient buyer-seller transaction. Additionally, the candidate will be responsible for operating a variety of heavy machinery and equipment, including but not limited to forklifts, backhoes, cranes, shears, front-end loaders, and excavators.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Ensures the quality of scrap being purchased is up to standard. Sorts material to sell as the correct commodity. Entering data into the computer for paying customers and inventory purposes. Ensures the weights being entered into the scrap purchasing system are accurate. Communicates via radio often with scale staff about vehicles that have dropped certain commodities off and any deducts from the loads before the customer is paid out. Safely and respectfully loading and unloading various types of trailers with confidence when assigned. Runs UBCS through the bailing system, ensures they are clean of any debris. Operates forklifts, backhoes, cranes, shears, front-end loaders, balers, shredders, and excavators. Responsible for maintaining a safe and clean working environment. Performs other duties as assigned or directed. Supervisory Responsibilities This job has no supervisory responsibilities. Qualifications To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential function. Education and/or Experience High School diploma is preferred. 1-3 years' experience within our industry or closely related industry preferred. Must have excellent open communication style to carry out ongoing dialogues in a way that creates trust and confidence within all levels of the company. Technology Skills The incumbent must be familiar with the practical use of technology and computer programs such as email and other local used programs allowing the incumbent to utilize the technology to regularly communicate with others. 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; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee is frequently required to talk or hear. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 100 pounds and occasionally lift or move more than 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Work Environment Work is performed in a large industrial scrap metal recycling facility around heavy, high-powered machinery, moving conveyors, and loud noise. Exposure to dust, grease, vibration, heat/cold, and outdoor conditions may occur. Strict safety rules apply, including lockout/tagout, machine guarding, and required PPE such as hearing and eye protection, gloves, hard hat, and steel-toe boots. A high level of situational awareness, physical stamina, and adherence to safe body mechanics is essential to succeed. The duties and responsibilities described are not a comprehensive list and that additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time; or the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands.

Job Type:

Full-time Pay:

$22.00 - $24.00 per hour

Benefits:

401(k) 401(k) matching Dental insurance Employee assistance program Health insurance Life insurance Paid time off Referral program Retirement plan Vision insurance

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Heavy Equipment Operator & Non-Ferrous Technician