Senior Warehouse Operative Specialist
UK-based AI and robotics company building commercially scalable humanoid robots for industrial deployment.
Funding history
About Humanoid
Humanoid develops industrial humanoid robots and its proprietary KinetIQ AI framework for real-world tasks across manufacturing, logistics, and related environments.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will take hands-on ownership of warehouse and inventory operations at the Vancouver site. You will receive, store, track, count, kit, and move materials; maintain accurate inventory records and traceability; prepare shipments and transfers; identify shortages and delivery risks; and improve warehouse processes. You will maintain a safe, organised stores environment and support colleagues in following warehouse procedures.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on warehouse, stores, inventory-control, or material-operations experience in a technical industry
- Experience supporting engineering, manufacturing, production, or prototype/R&D environments
- Experience supporting prototype builds, NPI, or low-volume, high-complexity production
- Inventory control, cycle counting, stock reconciliation, and variance-investigation experience
- Experience kitting and issuing materials against BOMs and build schedules
- Ability to work with BOMs, part numbers, technical documentation, and engineering drawings
- Experience handling technical components and assemblies with traceability
- Excel or Google Sheets skills, including formulas, lookups, pivot tables, and inventory reporting
- Knowledge of receiving, storage, stock movement, traceability, and inventory accuracy
- Ability to handle items up to 23 kg / 50 lb
Responsibilities
- Own receiving, storage, inventory control, cycle counting, kitting, and material movement
- Maintain an organised stores area, location structure, labelling system, and material flow
- Receive deliveries, verify materials against purchase orders, inspect materials, and record receipts
- Maintain real-time inventory records in JIRA and inventory-tracking systems
- Handle ESD-sensitive, high-value, serialized, and lot-controlled components with traceability
- Run cycle counts, investigate discrepancies, and maintain inventory accuracy
- Monitor inventory levels and safety-stock requirements
- Pick, stage, and deliver kits against BOMs and build schedules
- Identify material shortages and build risks early
- Manage material issues, returns, transfers, scrap, quarantined stock, and supplier returns
- Prepare outbound shipments and inter-site transfers with customs documentation
- Track critical shipments and escalate delays
- Maintain a clean, safe, and organised warehouse using 5S principles
- Support asset tracking for tools, fixtures, and equipment
- Maintain inventory reports, count plans, and variance analysis
- Improve receiving, storage, inventory, kitting, and material-flow processes
- Support colleagues in following warehouse and inventory procedures
Benefits
- Extended health benefits from the first day, including medical, dental, virtual care, and employee and family assistance
- 23 days of annual leave
- 15 days of paid sick leave
- Paid company holidays
- Stock options
- Free daily catered lunch, snacks, and drinks in-office