The bulk recyclables industry is a ~$1 trillion industry - yet is largely a technological desert. Outlast is transforming the recyclables trade through technology. Our platform enables suppliers and buyers to safely and effortlessly transact their materials at the push of a button. Beyond connecting suppliers and buyers, we also provide enterprise account procurement, off-take, global logistics, financing, and quality control. As a company, we are keenly focused on optimizing the customer experience and doing good for the environment by promoting recycling. Outlast is looking for an experienced recycling professional to operate our warehouse in Houston, Texas. This positions works on-site Monday-Friday in Houston, Texas. It will require traveling within Texas as needed to meet customers. Responsibilities
- Receiving and grading: Grade ferrous and non-ferrous materials according to specifications when they arrive at the warehouse. Reject non-conforming products with proper documentation for customers. Complete relevant documentation for incoming and outgoing materials, and any associated data entry using Outlast software in accordance with company requirements.
- Inventory management: Meet monthly financial goals for inventory levels and inventory turnovers. Audit inventory daily to maintain accurate records at all times using Outlast software.
- Logistics and customer service: Coordinate logistics with suppliers and customers with the highest level of customer service. Answer customer inquiries about general pricing and logistics. Ensure customer requests are fulfilled in a timely and professional manner.
- Financial reporting: Adhere to Outlast's requirements for maintaining financial records and escalate potential over-budget expenses incurred from warehouse activities to management as early as they arise.
- Product feedback: Provide targeted feedback to Outlast's engineering for further development of our proprietary platform, especially for features on managing inventory and quality. Assist in prototype testing, new feature ideation, and suggestions for enhancements.
Qualifications
- A minimum of 3 years of experience in the scrap industry required
- An associate degree or above required
- Deep familiarity with a wide variety of scrap grades required
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Spanish fluency preferred
- High attention to detail
- High comfort level with desktop software and mobile apps
- Self-starter with a roll-up your sleeves mentality and a bias for action
- Alignment with Outlast's core values
Outlast Core ValuesHave Courage: Take risks and challenge yourself to step out of your comfort zone. No one ever invented the wheel by continuing to carve squares. Own your successes and failures.
Scrap daily: Don't lose track of what we do. It is a dirty job, but we choose to do it. Roll up your sleeves. No job is too big or too small. Be proud of who we are and what we are doing.
Have No Ceiling: If you plan to be a better person every day, you will always be on a path to personal and professional improvement. This mentality will push your peers to follow the same journey.
Be accountable: Hold yourself to the same standards that you hold others. Lead by example and do not tolerate less than the highest degree of effort and professionalism from yourself and your colleagues.
Appreciative Inquiry: Build up your team! We learn more by listening than we do talking. Have empathy with your peers, customers, and managers. Listen and reflect before responding and reacting. Five minds contemplating a solution is more powerful than one mouth yelling it.
Over our skis: Don't get too comfortable. You never know what is around the corner. We must nurture a healthy paranoia over disappointing our customers and actively wage war on our competitors!
Why Join Outlast? Our mission: To make the world greener and more sustainable by optimizing the recyclables supply chain.
Our team: We are comprised of industry experts and technological disruptors. We pride ourselves on being a positive, enthusiastic, and highly capable group of individuals that collaborate around our mission and vision.
Our culture: We encourage everyone's voice at the company to be heard. We rally around our core values to create a community of innovators whose collective efforts amount to far more than just a multiple of an individual.
Our product: We aim to accomplish two things through technology - bring trust to an opaque market and deliver industry-defining customer experiences.
Our value: Backed by some of the top Venture Capital funds and hedge funds in Silicon Valley, Outlast is uniquely positioned to disrupt the bulk recyclables, an industry that is rapidly approaching a $1T global value.