Black-Mass Feedstock Recovery Leader

The mandate

Contracted tonnes are ahead of plan, but the plant receives mixed packs, modules, cells and production scrap with uncertain chemistry, residual charge, ownership, damage and foreign material. Yards count gross weight while safe discharge, dismantling and shredding capacity determine when contained metals become usable black mass. Unplanned quarantine and low-yield toll lots now interrupt hydrometallurgical campaigns. The chief executive needs one temporary authority over feedstock truth from approved collection through prepared black-mass release, not a general consumer-return programme.

The leader starts within fifteen days for twelve months. In the first 21 days, every load, yard lot and toll batch must receive identity, owner, chemistry confidence, state-of-charge risk, physical condition, regulatory route, processing step and expected recoverable-content status. By day 60, supplier appointments and production intake will run through common gates. Three chemistry campaigns, two peak-return periods and one damaged-load exercise precede a five-week successor induction.

Handover is complete when contracted, received, quarantined, prepared and released quantities reconcile without gross-to-net ambiguity; each plant campaign sees qualified chemistry and usable black-mass yield; supplier claims trace to sampled evidence; and capacity plans distinguish safe preparation from yard space. The successor receives source dossiers, title and custody exceptions, discharge and toll routes, yield histories, open claims, campaign reservations, risk decisions and a trained daily intake team.

The interim may accept, hold or reject intake against approved commercial and safety rules; allocate preparation and tolling slots; reserve approved transport; settle documented supplier claims within delegation; and approve recovery spend up to HUF 2.2 billion. Process Safety and site leaders retain hazardous-work decisions; Quality and laboratories own sampling and material release; Legal determines ownership and waste classification; Engineering approves process changes; Procurement awards structural contracts.

Cell design recovery, consumer take-back strategy, battery-passport governance, hydrometallurgical recipe change, product marketing, environmental permitting and permanent plant expansion sit outside scope. The leader cannot convert uncertain chemistry or charged damaged stock into available feed by schedule instruction. Every lot counted for a campaign must show authorised identity, safety state, preparation route, sampled chemistry, expected yield and custody evidence.

Why this seat is open

The recycler scaled collection contracts faster than its intake and preparation discipline, and the previous supply head reported yard tonnes as plant feed. Operations now distrusts the forecast and suppliers dispute deductions made after mixing. A temporary executive must restore lot-level commercial and physical control while the board recruits a permanent leader with both battery-material and hazardous-intake depth.

What you will own

• Reconcile contracted, dispatched, received, quarantined, prepared, tolled and released material by lot, owner and gross-to-net bridge.
• Establish chemistry, form factor, damage, residual-charge, contamination, title and transport evidence before intake becomes planned feed.
• Match collection appointments to discharge, dismantling, shredding, segregation, sampling and toll capacity rather than yard space.
• Sequence black-mass campaigns using qualified chemistry, recoverable-content confidence, line needs, customer commitments and safe storage.
• Reset supplier settlement around sampled yield, exclusions, foreign material, moisture, rejected loads and preserved counter-evidence.
• Exercise a damaged mixed-chemistry arrival and prove quarantine, emergency response, customer and regulator interfaces work.
• Induct the successor through three campaigns with source dossiers, yield histories, claims, capacity reservations and decision logs.

Candidate qualifications

• Held executive battery-recycling, hazardous-feedstock, metals-recovery or comparable secondary-material supply authority at industrial scale.
• Has recovered black-mass output when gross intake concealed chemistry, charge-state, preparation or recoverable-content constraints.
• Understands cells, modules, packs, chemistries, safe discharge, dismantling, shredding, sampling, tolling and hydrometallurgical feed needs.
• Can run supplier and production decisions while respecting Process Safety, laboratory, Quality, Legal and Engineering authority.
• Has reconciled title, custody, weight, contamination, yield and commercial settlement across multi-site secondary-material flows.
• Completed permanent handover after several real chemistry campaigns and an abnormal damaged-load scenario.

Non-negotiables

• Can be onsite in Budapest within fifteen days and sustain approximately fifty percent collection, yard and toller travel.
• Brings direct battery or hazardous secondary-material operations; ordinary waste collection or procurement alone is insufficient.
• Will disclose collector, vehicle maker, battery producer, toller, laboratory, trader and recycler interests before appointment.
• Accepts no process-safety, laboratory-release, legal-classification, environmental-permit, engineering-change or undelegated award authority.

1. 49 words maximum. Describe contracted battery tonnes you removed from a campaign after usable-yield evidence failed.
2. 49 words maximum. Which lot attribute must be known before yard inventory becomes hydrometallurgical feed?
3. 49 words maximum. What collector, toller, battery maker or metals-trader relationship could impair your independence?

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