Daily Operations Ownership

• Run the full daily rhythm — open and secure the facility, manage delivery schedules, receiving, sorting, processing, and shipping — without escalation for routine decisions.

• Personally inspect loads, run the scale, and operate equipment when needed; lead from the floor, not the office.

• Serve customers at the facility and execute every transaction accurately.

• Escalate issues to the VP of Operations with recommendations, not open questions.

Inventory & Data Discipline

• Ensure every receipt, shipment, scale ticket, inventory adjustment, and customer transaction is entered into the Outlast platform before close of business, every day, with audit clean records.

• Stand up inventory reconciliation processes and hit reported inventory accuracy targets.

• Keep material staged, identified, and accessible no “mystery piles.”

Crew Leadership & Development

• Stabilize staffing and set a daily work-assignment cadence.

• Coach operators, address underperformance, and build coverage depth so the facility never depends on one person.

• Invest in your people and build bench strength rather than hoarding knowledge.

Safety, Compliance & Vendor Management

• Own safety programs, training records, and environmental and regulatory compliance documentation. Safety for all personnel is top priority.

• Never trade safety for throughput; stop work when safety requires it.

• Manage vendor relationships, approve invoices and purchase requests, and track facility expenses against budget.

• Manage preventive maintenance and downtime for shears, balers, loaders, and scales.

Reporting & Continuous Improvement

• Deliver regular KPI reporting to the VP of Operations: throughput, safety, inventory accuracy, downtime, and cost.

• Surface risks and capital expenditure needs with business cases, not complaints.

• Identify and ship at least 2–3 concrete workflow, layout, or process improvements with quantified impact on throughput, downtime, or cost.

• Direct experience running or serving as #2 at a scrap yard or recycling facility. Industry experience is non-negotiable, including knowledge of material grades, weighing and scale operations, QC inspection, and load placement.

• Hands-on ownership of receiving and shipping documentation, scale tickets, and inventory reconciliation, with demonstrable accuracy results.

• Proven crew leadership: scheduling, work assignment, coaching, and corrective action for yard or equipment operators and processing staff.

• Systems fluency comfortable living in an operational software platform daily to enter, audit, and report from it, rather than relying on paper and clipboards.

• A player-coach who will personally inspect loads, run the scale, and jump on a forklift when needed.

• Able to operate without a corporate admin layer owning your own reporting, recordkeeping, and vendor and customer communication and to work effectively for a VP of Operations who isn’t on site daily.

• Comfortable building SOPs, layouts, and operating cadences from loose foundations rather than inheriting a mature ops manual.

• Strongly preferred: experience owning safety programs and compliance documentation, and managing vendors and facility expenses against a budget.

• Nice to have: preventive-maintenance know-how for shears, balers, loaders, forklifts, grapple material handlers and scales.

• Based in Houston, TX; on-site daily with minimal travel.

• You run daily operations end-to-end, making routine decisions without escalation.

• Every transaction is entered accurately into the Outlast platform by close of business each day, and records are audit-clean.

• Inventory accuracy targets are hit and reported, with material staged and easy to identify.

• The crew is stable and cross-trained, and the facility no longer depends on any single person.

• The VP of Operations receives reliable KPI reporting, with risks and capex surfaced as clear business cases.

• You’ve shipped 2–3 measurable improvements to throughput, downtime, or cost.