Junior Scrap Dealer

As a Junior Scrap Dealer, you're in the business of buying discarded materials and selling them to processors or manufacturers who can use them. This might mean buying scrap metal from construction sites, old equipment from factories, or recyclables from various sources. It's a commodity business where your profit is the spread between buy and sell prices.

Your day involves sourcing materials, evaluating quality, negotiating prices, and coordinating logistics. You might visit a demolition site to assess scrap value, negotiate with a manufacturing plant clearing out old equipment, or work the phones to find buyers for materials you've acquired. Knowing current market prices is essential.

The challenge is that margins can be tight and prices fluctuate constantly. You need to accurately assess material quality, negotiate well on both buy and sell sides, and move materials efficiently. It's a hustle — relationships with reliable sources and buyers are everything. The people who do well here are comfortable with negotiation and have good instincts for material value.