Recycling Operations Specialist

Role Summary

Are you ready to help shape the future of sustainable manufacturing? This newly created role is a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of RHI Magnesita’s recycling initiatives. As part of a fast-moving and collaborative team, you’ll drive the logistics and coordination that make our recycling pipeline work—from sample sourcing to processor engagement and cost analysis.

This is a highly mobile role, with approximately 50% travel expected to support field operations and build strong relationships with our processor network. You’ll also gain exceptional cross-functional exposure, working with nearly every department at RHI Magnesita to align efforts and drive results. If you thrive in dynamic environments, enjoy solving logistical puzzles, and want to make a real impact on industrial sustainability, we want to hear from you.

What You’ll Do

• Lead processor meetings to track sample shipments, project updates, and invoicing concerns
• Coordinate transportation logistics and monitor material readiness
• Manage sample dispatches and communicate with QC and R&D teams
• Follow up on new source samples and relay approval or rejection status
• Initiate quote requests and support cost analysis with internal stakeholders
• Evaluate warehouse write-offs and determine recyclability
• Redirect non-compliant materials to JV or other processors
• Collaborate with the Recycling Analyst, Operations Lead, Business Developer, Procurement, Transportation, and JV Partner

What You Bring

• Ability to travel up to 50%
• A proactive, self-directed mindset with strong organizational skills
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration abilities
• A knack for logistics and attention to detail
• Experience managing complex workflows independently
• Willingness and enthusiasm for frequent travel (50%)

What We Offer

• A chance to help build a new function from the ground up
• High visibility across teams and leadership
• Opportunities to shape sustainable practices in industrial recycling
• A collaborative, mission-driven environment with room to grow
• The excitement of a role that blends fieldwork, strategy, and impact

About RHI Magnesita

RHI Magnesita is the leading global supplier of high-grade refractory products, systems and solutions which are critical for high-temperature processes in a wide range of industries. Serving customers around the world, RHI Magnesita has more than 20,000 employees in 65 main production sites (including raw material sites), 12 recycling facilities and more than 70 sales offices.

RHI Magnesita’s team in North America helps build refractory products that solve the most extreme manufacturing challenges. From advanced lithium-ion batteries for laptops and EVs and specialized glass on smartphones and tablets, to the steel and cement that build the world around us, our high-performance bricks and linings make it possible to melt, bend, shape, and refine these materials at extreme temperatures.

With a vertically integrated value chain, RHI Magnesita has helped forge the materials that build industries and economies for almost 200 years. Refractory products are essential to the production processes for cement, steel, aluminum, and many other industrial producers in the region.

Come get fired up with our North American team!