Name: Liam Giles

Job title: Director, Site Supervisor and First Aider, Automet

Time spent in recycling/current role: 15 years

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What does your job involve?

• Training Yard Operators in the sorting of aluminium for furnace smelting and keeping the yard clean
• Supervise and maintain site
• Supervising the running of the yard
• Supervise and delegate to Automet’s staff members
• Management of container loading and international customers
• Ensure smooth operations of the site and staff working within
• First Aider
• Operation of cranes
• Sorting of goods coming inwards
• Ensuring ferrous metals are loaded correctly
• Sorting out loads and unloading wagons
• Dealing with customers and the public
• Ongoing training
• Following quality service standards and comply with procedures, rules & regulations
• Ability to meet the physical demands of the job

What is the hardest part of your job?  

Getting WhatsApps at 10 /11 pm off shredders ☹.
 
What three things help you to do your job better?

• Team work and walkie talkies for excellent communication 
• The right specialised equipment and machinery
• Happy customers

What are you most proud of in your career?  

Working with some of the best scrappers around the world.

What are the best and worst things about the metals recycling sector?

Bad loads is the worst part of my job and good loads are the best part of my job 😊.

What is the best advice you have ever received?

If you want to achieve something great, it’s not going to be easy. 😊
 
Quick fire round:
Out on the town or a night in front of the TV? Out Out!
Coffee or tea? Coffee
Winter or Summer? Summer
Marmite – Love/Hate? Hate
Invisibility or Flying? I’m already flying in life 😊 so invisibility 😊