Fleet Attendant

Starship Technologies; Norfolk (VA); On-site; USD 30,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

Join an innovative company transforming the delivery landscape with autonomous robots. As a Fleet Attendant, you will be integral to daily operations, ensuring our robots are clean, charged, and ready to serve. This role offers a unique blend of technology and hands-on work, where you'll interact with cutting-edge robots in a fast-paced environment. Enjoy the flexibility of a seasonal position, allowing you to take summers off while contributing to a rapidly expanding company. If you're excited about technology and ready to take initiative, this is the opportunity for you!

Benefits

Flexible hours

Opportunity for growth

Summers off

Qualifications

• Excited to work with robots and technology.
• Experience with electronics is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Cleaning and maintaining the robot fleet.
• Transporting robots to delivery areas by ebike or foot.
• Troubleshooting unexpected situations during deliveries.

Skills

Communication Skills

Problem-solving

Basic Electronics

Hand and Power Tools

Education

High School Diploma

Tools

Ebikes

Hand Tools

Job description

Starship Technologies is revolutionizing deliveries with autonomous robots. These robots are designed to deliver food, groceries, and packages across college campuses and neighborhoods in minutes. Starship has now completed millions of autonomous deliveries to date, traveled millions of miles and is currently doing more than 140k road crossings each day. Our contribution to society includes reducing congestion, and pollution, providing zero-emissions deliveries, increasing the quality of life for residents, empowering seniors and disabled people, and enabling affordable delivery for local businesses.

We’re hitting records on an almost weekly basis. Now is an exciting time to join as we grow rapidly around the world!

We are looking for excited, dynamic, tech-savvy team members to join our US Operations team. The seasonal position (August through May/June) of a Fleet Attendant requires you to help run the daily operations of an innovative food delivery service.

The environment will be similar to a fast-paced restaurant/workshop while allowing you to plunge into a cutting-edge technological environment working directly with our autonomous robots. Fleet Attendants will execute start-of-day or end-of-day charging and cleaning of the robot fleet, repair robots throughout the shift, troubleshoot unexpected situations that may arise during the course of a delivery, and work effectively as a team to ensure exceptional results in the delivery service from vendors to customers.

If you're still looking for reasons to apply, please use the link provided below to learn more about Starship and what we do!

Job Responsibilities:

Operational Service Tasks:

• Cleaning and detailing of our robot fleet so that robots look great, inside and out.
• Responsible for operational service. You will be accountable for ensuring robots are in service, sanity and fully charged. You’ll deploy the robots to or return from your service area as needed with clean liners and all necessary equipment.
• Transporting the robot to delivery areas by ebike or foot (which may include some occasional lifting of up to 70 lbs).
• Perform weekly Merchant Preflights to understand any service-related issues, provide operational and general troubleshooting assistance related to Starship-provided devices, and act as a Starship brand representative while in this client-facing role.
• Assisting robots in unexpected situations across the campus, reporting any issues to the onsite team.

Technical Tasks:

• Helping sustain the health of the robots through basic maintenance and troubleshooting both in the field and in the hub.
• Maintaining our hub-based warehouse and conducting regular inventories.
• Remote (online) training will be provided upon completion of hiring/onboarding for one week. Onsite training to follow after with a Robot Technician, Operations Manager, or a designated Trainer.
• Other duties as assigned.

We are looking for someone who is:

• Excited to work with robots and technology.
• Interested to be part of something totally new and inspirational.
• Responsible and it's happy to be a representative of Starship.
• Independent, ready to take initiative in unexpected situations.
• Able to work independently indoors/outdoors.
• Excellent in spoken and written communication in English.
• It will be beneficial if you have experience working with electronics.
• Has the ability to use hand and power tools (screwdriver, Pliers, Torx, dremel, drill) or is willing to learn.
• Someone who has availability for weekend shifts, morning and/or evening shifts are highly preferred.

Physical Requirements:

• Movement ability to frequent usage of wrists, hands and finger dexterity to movements such as constant typing, as well full-body exertion while wrangling the robot fleet.
• Occasional lifting of items with weight up to 70 lbs.
• Comfortable riding an ebike on various terrain.

What’s in it for you?

• Summers off! This is a seasonal role! Having a seasonal position gives you flexibility to take time off during our off-season in the summer months of May through July.
• Opportunity to grow with a rapidly expanding company.
• Chance to be part of a potential next unicorn company!

Ready to join our Starship fleet? Apply today!

Job Type: Part-time with flexible hours
Only candidates who send resumes will be considered.

Please include your availability when applying. Early application is encouraged.

Check out our website to find out more about us:
https://www.starship.xyz