Recycling & Facility Maintenance Manager

Key Responsibilities
Recycling, Redemption & Recoverable Assets

• Coordinate redemption pickups, drop-offs, recycling movement, and related activity with internal teams and external partners.

• Manage recycling vendors, pallet recovery outlets, cooperage returns, and disposal channels for cardboard, aluminum, shrink wrap, damaged pallets, and similar materials.

• Ensure pallet sorting, bale staging, cooperage handling, and outbound recycling preparation are completed according to SOPs and operational standards.

• Maintain control of pallet and cooperage inventory and ensure accurate counts, recovery tracking, documentation, and billing support.

• Drive loss prevention and accountability around pallets, cooperage, recyclable materials, and other recoverable warehouse assets.
Facility Maintenance Leadership

• Serve as the day-to-day lead for facility maintenance follow-up, housekeeping execution, repair coordination, and facility-readiness standards.

• Identify, document, prioritize, and follow up on facility issues including doors, docks, lighting, floors, drains, offices, bathrooms, break areas, exterior areas, compactors, recycling equipment, and general building conditions.

• Coordinate with internal maintenance resources, warehouse leadership, outside vendors, contractors, and service providers to ensure repairs and facility needs are addressed timely.

• Track open facility issues through approved systems, logs, or work-order processes and provide regular follow-up to warehouse leadership.

• Support preventive maintenance planning for facility-related assets, including dock equipment, recycling equipment, building fixtures, compactors, sweepers/scrubbers, and related support equipment.

• Ensure facility issues that create safety, product integrity, operational disruption, or security risks are escalated promptly.
Housekeeping, Safety & Facility Standards

• Maintain strong housekeeping, spill-control, hazard-control, and organized staging standards throughout recycling, dock, warehouse, office, exterior, and support areas.

• Lead routine facility walks to identify cleanliness issues, damaged equipment, unsafe conditions, blocked areas, poor staging, pest-risk areas, and other facility concerns.

• Ensure recycling and facility-support areas remain clean, safe, labeled, accessible, and inspection-ready.

• Support timely follow-up on incident reporting, workers' compensation documentation, insurance coordination, and related operational follow-up where assigned.

• Ensure equipment defects, unsafe conditions, facility damage, and operational hazards are identified, documented, and escalated promptly.
People Leadership

• Lead recycling and facility-support employees and establish clear expectations regarding safety, urgency, organization, cleanliness, and operational execution.

• Assign daily priorities based on workload, facility condition, operational needs, vendor schedules, and business demands.

• Conduct evaluations, provide coaching, document performance concerns, and hold employees accountable for execution standards.

• Coordinate operational follow-up with warehouse leadership, vendors, support departments, and employees as needed.
Vendor, Budget & Administrative Support

• Support planning and tracking of recycling, facility services, housekeeping, supplies, repairs, and related operational expenses.

• Coordinate vendor access, service timing, documentation, and follow-up for assigned facility and recycling activities.

• Review vendor work for completion, accuracy, and operational impact.

• Support invoice review, billing reconciliation, recovery tracking, and documentation for recycling, pallets, cooperage, facility services, and related transactions.

• Maintain organized records for service activity, asset recovery, repairs, inspections, supplies, and facility follow-up.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of warehouse, recycling, facility services, maintenance coordination, asset-control, or operational leadership experience preferred.

• Strong organizational, vendor-management, analytical, and operational follow-up skills.

• Strong floor presence with the ability to identify facility problems before they become…