Non Ferrous Team Leader

  • Job Reference: 8400
  • Date Posted: 7 January 2025
  • Employer: EMR UK Careers
  • Location: Leeds, Kent
  • Salary: On Application

Job Description

Package Description:
- Attractive pay rates + Increased overtime rates
- Plus great benefits such as:
• Bonus scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, plus each year you will have the option to buy and sell leave
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Wellbeing Scheme, provided through Health Shield, giving every colleague – and their dependents – unlimited access to GPs and counselling, as well as cash back on a wide range of health and wellbeing treatment
• Employee Support to include Life Assurance and critical illness pay
• 24/7 Colleague Assistance Programme and Financial Wellbeing Support – access to affordable loans, savings accounts, advanced earned pay, and financial education via salary finance
• Online savings- major retailers, utilities, entertainment plus many more!


About Our Opportunity:
The role of a Non-Ferrous Team Leader at EMR Group is broad in its requirements and provides a challenging but rewarding working environment. Supporting the Daily Operations in the Non-Ferrous yard.

What You Will Be Doing:
• Oversee day to day Operation of Non-Ferrous Yard Assisting Non-Ferrous Operations Manager.
• Responsible for Health, Safety and Environmental welfare of staff / customers and site.
• Assist with material out turns to report back to Operations Manager and Non-Ferrous Area Manager.
• Manage stock levels and report to Operations Manager the need for material sales etc.
• Oversee quality control of all incoming loads including Inter-depot and customer loads.
• Co-ordinating Monthly NFE stocktakes under the guidance of NF Operations Manager and NF Area Manager
• Reporting to Operations manager on depot inefficiencies monitoring, production and overall customer experience
• Operating Mobile Plant such as counterbalance forklift / crane to carry out loading / sorting duties within yard.
• Co-ordinate NFE container bookings with Non-Ferrous Operations Manager

About You:
• Develop a detailed understanding of all metal grades to UK specification but also understand the nuances of all matters of upgrading
• Ensure material is graded and stored appropriately
• Self-develop through training and plant qualifications
• Understand stocks and costs of stock control
• Undertake a continuous improvement approach to ensure optimum efficiency and performance
- Saturday Cover will be required / Sunday working paid overtime


Who We Are:
European Metal Recycling is a global leader in sustainable materials with physical operations in the UK, USA, Germany and the Netherlands. Our core business is the recycling of metal and plastics from a range of public, commercial and industrial waste streams. Our recycling activities generate around 10 million tonnes of sustainable materials every year, saving over 10 million tonnes of CO2.
Our mission is to have great people serving our customers with dependable recycling solutions. EMR is still privately owned, with family values at its core. It’s a place where we care about our people, our customers, our workplace and our communities. We offer diverse and exciting career opportunities where individuals can make a difference and are recognised and rewarded for their hard work.
Find out more about us at www.emrgroup.com

It goes without saying that you will need the correct licences or certificates for a variety of our roles.
However, at EMR we value the way we do things as much as the delivery. We call our expectations our Behaviours. They align with our Values of We Care and We Do, and they apply across all levels and roles in the business.

​We Care
- Integrity – you are Respectful and Honest
- Trust – you are Collaborative and Genuine

We Do
- Accountable – you are Determined and Responsible
- Innovative – you have a Growth Mind-set and you are Progressive


The EMR Way - Our Behaviours will achieve success as One Team.
If you embody our Behaviours, we want to hear from you!