Warehouse Materials Recovery Technician

Every day, we receive thousands of pounds of electronics from businesses, schools, government agencies, and community recycling events. Nothing leaves our warehouse until we’ve determined its highest and best use. Your role is to identify, sort, recover, and prepare valuable materials-including copper, aluminum, steel, circuit boards, plastics, wire, batteries, and reusable equipment-for their next destination. Every pallet you process helps recover value while supporting a cleaner, more sustainable future.

What You’ll Do

• Sort incoming electronics into reusable equipment and recyclable commodity streams.
• Identify and separate copper, aluminum, steel, wire, circuit boards, plastics, batteries, power supplies, and other recoverable materials.
• Inspect incoming material and determine its highest and best use through reuse, refurbishment, parts recovery, or responsible recycling.
• Load, unload, move, and organize material using pallet jacks, forklifts, hand trucks, and other warehouse equipment following training.
• Drive a 26-foot box truck to support local pickups, deliveries, and community electronics recycling events.
• Pick, pack, palletize, wrap, and prepare outbound shipments for customers, freight carriers, and downstream recyclers.
• Maintain an organized, clean, and safe warehouse while meeting daily productivity and quality goals.
• Work closely with teammates and management to improve processes, solve problems, and support a culture of continuous improvement.
• Occasionally support Saturday community electronics recycling events throughout the St. Louis region., You’ll probably enjoy working at Tech Remove if you:
• Like staying active and working with your hands.
• Enjoy creating order from chaos.
• Can quickly identify, sort, and organize materials.
• Take pride in a clean, safe, and organized warehouse.
• Work well independently without constant supervision.
• Adapt quickly when priorities change.
• Communicate respectfully and work well as part of a team.
• Show up on time, ready to work, every day.
• Don’t mind warehouse conditions, including summer heat, winter cold, dust, and physical work.
• Want to learn new skills and grow with a company that’s continually improving.

This position isn’t for everyone-and that’s okay. If you’re looking for a desk job or a climate-controlled office, you’ll probably be happier somewhere else. But if you enjoy working hard, solving practical problems, and seeing the direct results of your effort every day, we’d love to meet you.

We’re looking for candidates with 1-3 years of experience in one or more of the following:

• Warehouse operations
• Shipping and receiving
• Material sorting or commodity recovery
• Recycling, scrap, or e-waste processing
• Pick, pack, and ship operations
• Distribution, fulfillment, or logistics
• Inventory management
• Manufacturing or industrial production
• Operating forklifts, pallet jacks, or other material-handling equipment
• Driving a 16-foot or 26-foot box truck

The following experience or certifications are preferred but not required:

• Forklift Certification
• OSHA 10 or OSHA 30
• DOT Medical Card (or the ability to obtain one)
• Experience operating electric pallet jacks
• Experience with RF scanners or warehouse management systems
• UPS WorldShip, FedEx Ship Manager, or similar shipping software
• Lean Manufacturing, 5S, or continuous improvement practices

Equivalent experience gained through construction, landscaping, agriculture, military service, manufacturing, or other physically demanding trades will also be considered., * This job requires a background investigation and a drug screen. Are you willing to submit to that as a condition of your employment?

• A pallet contains aluminum heat sinks, steel computer cases, copper wire, plastic housings, and power supplies. You have a magnet, wire cutters, and basic hand tools available. In 2-3 sentences, describe how you would identify and sort these materials into the correct commodity streams.
• While sorting electronics, you discover a box containing power cords, Ethernet cables, coaxial cable, copper wire, aluminum heat sinks, batteries, and circuit boards mixed together. In 2-3 sentences, explain how you would organize these materials and why accurate sorting is important.

Experience:

• Box Truck: 1 year (Required)
• Materials Sorting: 1 year (Required)
• Forklift Certifiation: 1 year (Required)

Language:

• English (Required)

Pulled from the full job description

• Safety equipment provided
• Referral program
• Health insurance
• Employee discount
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule, * Full-time
• Monday-Friday
• First Shift: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
• Occasional Saturday community electronics recycling events and overtime, as business needs require.

Work Environment: This is a warehouse-based position. Work is performed indoors and outdoors in warehouses, on loading docks, in box trucks, and at community electronics recycling events. Candidates should be comfortable working in varying temperatures, including summer heat, winter cold, dust, and physically demanding conditions.

Physical Requirements: Candidates should be able to safely lift up to 50 pounds, stand and walk for extended periods, and repeatedly push, pull, bend, reach, and move materials throughout the workday.

Pay: $18.00 - $19.00 per hour, * Dental insurance

• Employee discount
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Referral program
• Safety equipment provided
• Vision insurance

Tech Remove is an electronics recovery company dedicated to extending the life of technology through refurbishment, resale, responsible recycling, and materials recovery. We work where technology meets hard work-in warehouses, on loading docks, in box trucks, and at community recycling events. Every day, our team helps recover valuable resources, protect sensitive data, and keep thousands of pounds of electronics out of landfills.