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 General Manager to run a new non-ferrous facility and build their own team of 20+ employees with full P&L responsibilities.

1. Sourcing and inventory: Determine what grades of aluminum scrap and volume mix are required for the alloy chemistries the customer specifies. Oversee buyers to procure non-ferrous materials. Provide guidance to buyers on pricing for scrap yards, industrial accounts, and dealers. Ensure storage and delivery volume requirements and average cost requirements are met.

2. Quality control: Create quality manuals for employees and suppliers. Train employees to evaluate incoming and outgoing non-ferrous materials to ensure quality. Maintain quality data on each supplier.

3. Process and Equipment: Create and maintain the process for the facility to ensure an efficient and orderly workflow. Work with Outlast's central Operations team to procure the equipment required for the facility. Inspect the assets regularly and ensure maintenance is timely and cost-effective.

4. Team Leadership: Hire and train a full team at the facility, starting with 20+ employees and contractors across supervising, buying, trucking, processing, quality control, and administration. Be a hands-on manager and mentor for these salaried and hourly employees.

5. Safety and Regulatory compliance: Establish safe practices in accordance with local regulatory guidelines and OSHA. Provide safety training to all employees. Ensure proper record keeping and reporting of transactions at all times.

6. Customer service: Be a trusted representative from Outlast in front of both enterprise buyers and scrap yard suppliers. Provide data-driven advice to customers. Oversee pickups and deliveries to provide a best-in-class customer experience on a daily basis.

7. 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.

- A minimum of 15 years of experience in the scrap industry required

- Deep familiarity with a wide variety of scrap aluminum grades required

- Scrap industry experience in Texas is strongly preferred

- Experience in running teams of 20+ people with full P&L responsibilities preferred

- Strong verbal and written communication skills

- Entrepreneurial drive, discipline, and a willingness to learn

- Ability to perform under pressure and meet deadlines

- High comfort level with desktop software and mobile apps

- High school diploma or equivalent

- Self-starter with a “roll-up your sleeves” mentality and a bias for action

- Alignment with Outlast’s core values

This position works on-site Monday-Friday in Austin, Texas. It will require minimal travel to domestic suppliers and customers.

Have 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!

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.