About this Logistics Specialist (SkillBridge) role at Zipline
About Zipline
Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. We are on a mission to serve all humans equally by ensuring access to food, medicine and essential goods anytime, anywhere. We design, build, and operate the world’s largest autonomous logistics system, delivering critical supplies quickly and reliably. Today, Zipline operates on four continents, makes a delivery somewhere in the world every 30 seconds, and has completed millions of deliveries to date, including blood, vaccines, medical supplies, food, and retail products.
Our customers include the world’s largest and most prominent healthcare systems, governments, retailers, restaurants and global businesses who rely on us to save lives, reduce emissions, increase economic opportunity, and provide delivery from point A to point B as fast as possible. The drone is only 15% of what we’ve built to enable seamless, reliable, global operations.
Our system strengthens supply chains, reduces congestion, and gives people time back. With more than 140 million commercial autonomous miles safely flown, Zipline is redefining access to healthcare, consumer products, and food across the globe.
We operate at a global scale and are looking for practical problem solvers who thrive on real-world challenges and rapid growth. Our team is motivated by building systems that have a direct, meaningful impact on people’s lives and by scaling the future of logistics. We are seeking people who sculpt from first principles, enjoy facing adversity, and can do the impossible at record breaking speeds.
About You and The Role
Please Note: The Zipline SkillBridge program provides transitioning service members the opportunity to gain work experience through an internship during their final 180 days of service. Zipline offers both structured instruction and on-the-job training through a 3-4 month internship.
This is not a general employment opportunity. This role is only open to active-duty U.S. military service members who have been approved (or are eligible for approval) to participate in the DoW SkillBridge program. Applications from candidates who are not SkillBridge-eligible cannot be considered.
Zipline’s maintenance hubs depend on parts, tools, and operational assets arriving where they are needed, with accurate records and traceability. As a Logistics Specialist SkillBridge trainee, you will you will own the material and asset flow that enables safe, efficient maintenance operations. You will partner with maintenance, fleet operations, quality, supply chain, and transportation teams. Success means reliable material availability, accurate inventory and asset records, compliant hub vehicles, and fewer avoidable maintenance delays.
What You'll Do
- Receive, inspect, and process inbound components, consumables, and tools; verify shipments against purchase orders, packing lists, and engineering documentation.
- Maintain inventory accuracy through disciplined ERP transactions, cycle counts, discrepancy investigations, corrective actions, traceability, and configuration control.
- Kit, stage, replenish, and deliver materials and tooling to maintenance cells and work centers to support daily maintenance execution.
- Manage inventory, asset accountability, replenishment needs, and equipment movement for Zipping Point operations across sites.
- Own maintenance-hub vehicle readiness through registration, compliance records, preventive maintenance scheduling, repair coordination, fuel-card reconciliation, utilization reporting, and disposition recommendations.
- Coordinate outbound and expedited shipments, including packaging, documentation, carrier scheduling, and transportation-provider communication.
- Improve inventory accuracy, material flow, fleet utilization, and operating procedures through data-driven problem solving, system testing, and process rollouts.
What You'll Bring
- Experience in logistics, inventory management, fleet operations, supply chain, manufacturing, aviation maintenance, or a related operational environment.
- Hands-on experience using ERP, inventory-management, or asset-tracking systems to maintain accurate records and resolve inventory discrepancies.
- Working knowledge of inventory traceability, configuration control, quality processes, and material-handling practices.
- Working knowledge of fleet management, vehicle maintenance scheduling, vendor coordination, and compliance documentation.
- Experience partnering with maintenance, operations, quality, supply chain, and transportation stakeholders.
- Ability to independently prioritize multiple live operational needs and make sound tradeoffs between availability, accuracy, cost, compliance, and maintenance continuity.
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds and work on your feet for extended periods; forklift certification or material-handling equipment experience is preferred.
What Else You Need To Know
SkillBridge start dates are flexible. Housing is not provided.
Zipline is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws or our own sensibilities.
We value diversity at Zipline and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!
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As set forth in Zipline ’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.
