Operations Specialist

Operations Specialist

Outlast is disrupting the largest market you've never heard of. The bulk recyclables industry is a ~$1 trillion industry yet is largely a technological desert. Outlast is transforming 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 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. On the latter, the proof is in the facts: recycling 1 ton of material is the equivalent to reducing the greenhouse gas emissions of more than 7,000 miles in a passenger car. Outlast is poised for explosive growth, completing several rounds of funding and landing contracts that can scale to $100s of millions in revenue.

Opportunity Overview

As our Operations Specialist, you'll play a key role in managing the flow of millions of dollars of material around the world. This position is highly cross-functional and will work closely with sales, product and engineering, logistics providers, and our customers to build a best-in-class fulfillment process.

What You'll Do:

• Execute Order Fulfillment: Coordinate the movement of material for sales and purchase orders, ensuring timely pickups and deliveries
• Manage Shipping Logistics: Arrange trucks, containers, and freight for domestic and export shipments
• Maintain Documentation: Prepare and organize shipping paperwork with accuracy
• Build Carrier Relationships: Communicate effectively with carriers and service providers to ensure reliable service
• Monitor Performance: Track key metrics like pickup delays and identify opportunities for improvement
• Solve Problems Proactively: Anticipate potential shipping issues and work with the Operations team to develop solutions
• Support Continuous Improvement: Contribute ideas for reducing costs and increasing efficiency as you learn the business

Who You Are:

• Someone who understands logistics operations requires flexibility and takes ownership of seeing shipments through to completion
• A detail-oriented professional who doesn't let things slip through the cracks
• Eager to learn the freight business and develop expertise in scrap metal logistics
• Comfortable picking up the phone to resolve issues quickly and directly
• Able to stay organized while managing multiple competing priorities
• A team player who's coachable and not afraid to ask questions when needed

Qualifications:

• Coachable self-starter with strong attention to detail and a proactive work ethic
• 1-3 years of experience in tech startups, logistics, and/or operations
• Basic understanding of shipping documentation and carrier coordination or willingness to learn
• Strong communication and organizational skills
• Able to learn new systems quickly
• Familiarity with scrap metal or recyclables logistics

$65,000 - $85,000 a year depending on experience.

Outlast Core Values

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!

Why Join Outlast?

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.