
Job Title: General Recycling Specialist
Reports To: Management/Supervisors
Location: Merrillville, Indiana
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $16.00 – $17.50 per hour
Benefits: Paid time off, paid sick leave, and paid holidays
FLSA Status: Full-time, exempt
Responsibilities:
- Identify scrap commodities and sorts material into designated recycling stream
- Use yard operating equipment including fork lift, skid steer baler, shear, wire stripper, ECT
- Inspect equipment prior to operation and fuel to ensure conformity to quality standards
- Maintain a safe and clean work environment by keeping shelves, pallet area, and workstations neat
- Sweep, mop, and dust as needed
- Segregate, sort, and move materials to specified areas according to warehouse controls
- Stage material for outbound movements
- Assist retail customers with the offloading of material in yard
- Maintain knowledge of quality standards, material grades, what material can/cannot be unloaded
- Identify both ferrous and non-ferrous metals and sort various grades according to mill specifications
- Clean and maintain work area for fire control and to eliminate trip/fall hazards
- Compliance with safety standards, which include wearing all proper personal-protective equipment while working or while in the yard
- General duties involving physical handling of materials, supplies, ECT
- Perform additional responsibilities as they are assigned
Qualifications:
- High school diploma or equivalent (GED)
- 2+ years of warehouse experience
- Process driven and detail oriented
- Superior executive functioning skills
- Ability to maintain a clean and safe environment
- Valid driver’s license
- Knowledge of safety standards and adherence to current regulations
- General knowledge of scrap metal manufacturing
- Production and processing knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control
- Ability to occasionally lift and/or move objects that weigh more than 50 pounds
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Team player dedicated to the company
- Knowledge of scrap a plus
- Ability to work in all weather conditions
Benefits:
- Paid vacation
- Paid sick leave
- 100% individual coverage for health insurance after one year
Apply for General
Recycling Specialist
This is a quick application and is not a substitute for a full application. Upon request, you may need to submit additional information related to your employment history, references, citizen status, and more.

Job Title: General Recycling Specialist
Reports To: Management/Supervisors
Location: Merrillville, Indiana
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $16.00 – $17.50 per hour
Benefits: Paid time off, paid sick leave, and paid holidays
FLSA Status: Full-time, exempt
Responsibilities:
- Identify scrap commodities and sorts material into designated recycling stream
- Use yard operating equipment including fork lift, skid steer baler, shear, wire stripper, ECT
- Inspect equipment prior to operation and fuel to ensure conformity to quality standards
- Maintain a safe and clean work environment by keeping shelves, pallet area, and workstations neat
- Sweep, mop, and dust as needed
- Segregate, sort, and move materials to specified areas according to warehouse controls
- Stage material for outbound movements
- Assist retail customers with the offloading of material in yard
- Maintain knowledge of quality standards, material grades, what material can/cannot be unloaded
- Identify both ferrous and non-ferrous metals and sort various grades according to mill specifications
- Clean and maintain work area for fire control and to eliminate trip/fall hazards
- Compliance with safety standards, which include wearing all proper personal-protective equipment while working or while in the yard
- General duties involving physical handling of materials, supplies, ECT
- Perform additional responsibilities as they are assigned
Qualifications:
- High school diploma or equivalent (GED)
- 2+ years of warehouse experience
- Process driven and detail oriented
- Superior executive functioning skills
- Ability to maintain a clean and safe environment
- Valid driver’s license
- Knowledge of safety standards and adherence to current regulations
- General knowledge of scrap metal manufacturing
- Production and processing knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control
- Ability to occasionally lift and/or move objects that weigh more than 50 pounds
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Team player dedicated to the company
- Knowledge of scrap a plus
- Ability to work in all weather conditions
Benefits:
- Paid vacation
- Paid sick leave
- 100% individual coverage for health insurance after one year
Apply for General
Recycling Specialist
This is a quick application and is not a substitute for a full application. Upon request, you may need to submit additional information related to your employment history, references, citizen status, and more.