Operations Coordinator

West Kootenay Operations | Castlegar, British Columbia

Employment Type:

Full-Time, Permanent

Reports To:

Vice-President, Metal Recycling

Salary: $70,000–$90,000 annually, depending on qualifications and experience

LOCAL Industrial Partners is a growing, majority Indigenous-owned industrial services company specializing in demolition and decommissioning, metal recycling, environmental remediation, and industrial project services throughout Western Canada. Our work is built on safety, operational efficiency, technical expertise, and practical solutions.

We are seeking a motivated, technically minded Operations Coordinator to support our Genelle Metal Recycling Facility and regional industrial projects.

Reporting to the Vice-President, Metal Recycling, you will work closely with management, project services, and field teams to plan, coordinate, and document day-to-day operations. Your work will focus on:

• Metal Recycling:
  Coordinating facility operations, equipment, purchasing, logistics, inventory, and operational efficiency.
• Industrial Project Services:
  Supporting regional demolition, decommissioning, metal recovery, environmental remediation, and industrial construction projects.
• Administration & Improvement:
  Maintaining accurate records, supporting cost control and reporting, and improving systems and workflows.

You will interact regularly with equipment operators, field personnel, subcontractors, suppliers, and clients, and must be comfortable working in both office and active industrial environments.

• Coordinate material receiving, processing, handling, and shipping.
• Arrange purchasing, procurement, supplier services, trucking, freight, and dispatching.
• Maintain ferrous and non-ferrous inventory records and track material movements.
• Coordinate equipment maintenance, servicing, inspections, and repairs; monitor availability to minimize downtime.
• Support processing plans, equipment utilization, productivity, and cost control.
• Track operational costs and production performance.
• Coordinate with operators, drivers, suppliers, and recycling customers.
• Support scale operations, ticket reconciliation, and shipping documentation.
• Assist with proposals, estimates, budgets, work plans, and reviews of scopes, drawings, specifications, and technical requirements.
• Coordinate schedules, mobilization, demobilization, equipment, personnel, materials, trucking, freight, and subcontractors.
• Participate in client meetings, site visits, planning discussions, and project reviews.
• Support project safety planning and compliance with company procedures.
• Monitor progress, costs, schedules, and resource use; help resolve operational challenges.
• Coordinate communication among management, field supervisors, suppliers, and clients.
• Support project closeout, cost reconciliation, and performance reviews.

• Review and process employee timesheets and equipment time entries.
• Assist with invoices, supporting documentation, purchase orders, supplier invoices, and cost reconciliation.
• Prepare monthly operational reports and performance summaries.
• Reconcile scale tickets, trucking records, and material movement documentation.
• Maintain safety documentation, inspection and incident records, maintenance logs, and inventory records.
• Support compliance reviews, operational analysis, continuous improvement, and special projects.
• Use 4castplus for project tracking, cost reporting, resource management, and administration, and Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, and Teams for daily coordination.

• Evaluate workflows and help implement standardized procedures for facility and project operations.
• Improve inventory management, equipment tracking,…