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Sullivan's Scrap Metals
Scrap Yard Processor
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What they do
A Yard Truck Driver drives trucks within a specific, small environment such as a factory yard or a rail yard. Often requires more experience due to tight spaces. May require forklift experience.
$33,332 / year median in Pennsylvania
+9% projected growth
Job Description
Job Overview The Scrap Metal Processor is responsible for grading, sorting, processing, and maintaining the scrap metal in both the warehouse and yard. This person in this role serves both internal and external customers. This position has no supervisory responsibilities. Responsibilities
- Grade materials visually and with magnets
- Sort materials based on commodity grades
- Load, sort, move, and feed material into processing equipment
- Provide high level of customer service to all customers - both external and internal - and maintain ongoing interaction with external customers to their satisfaction
- Process materials from their current state using alligator shear, reciprocating saw, and/or manual hand-tool disassembling to add additional value
- Maintain a well-organized and orderly production area by utilizing storage boxes, pallets, carts, and bins to store like-materials
- Perform daily equipment inspections and notify Supervisor/Maintenance of needed repairs.
- Ensure inbound materials meet company specifications
- Work in a safety-conscious manner, following all Sullivan's safety procedures and regulations and also reporting incidents, near misses, or unsafe conditions to Management
- Empty storage containers in the appropriate collection area, while making a strong effort to sort material of higher value into their respective collection areas
- All other duties, as required by management Requirements
- Experience working in an industrial setting or scrapyard a plus
- Experience operating a forklift
- Ability to obtain and maintain a forklift license
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to provide excellent customer service
- Strong organizational skills and ability to multi-task Must have a clean background check.
- Able to work extended work hours and weekends, as needed