US Industrial Machine Operators

HIVE; Texas; On-site; USD 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Hive is building the next generation of autonomous industrial machinery. We are expanding in the US and seek experienced industrial machine operators to run and supervise equipment using Hive systems, supporting teleoperated and supervised autonomy while ensuring safe and reliable customer operations.

You will work hands-on with forklifts and heavy machinery, follow site procedures, and communicate issues to Hive’s teams. Travel to customer sites and shifts are required.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience operating industrial or heavy equipment.
• Professional experience with forklifts, wheel loaders or similar machinery.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites and work shifts.

Responsibilities

• Operate and supervise industrial machines using Hive systems.
• Support teleoperated and supervised autonomy operations.
• Monitor machine operation and respond when required.
• Operate equipment manually during testing, deployment and operations when needed.
• Follow site, safety and operating procedures.
• Identify operational issues and provide practical feedback to Hive’s technical and operations teams.
• Support testing, validation and continuous improvement.
• Work professionally with customers and other operators at active industrial sites.

Skills

Industrial equipment operation

Forklifts

Heavy equipment

Safety awareness

Shift work

Travel to customer sites

Communication

Job description

At Hive, we’re building the defining physical AI platform of the next decade.

Industrial labor is one of the most acute bottlenecks in the global economy. Operators are expensive, hard to retain, and working in environments that are increasingly unsafe. The shortage is structural. The window to solve it is now.

Our answer is a machine-agnostic intelligence platform that lets any machine, on any site, perceive, decide, and act autonomously. One platform. Any machine. No fleet replacement.

Already live across multiple sites and customers in Europe - spanning logistics and warehousing, industrial manufacturing, and large-scale chemical production - with a US expansion underway.

The vision: one operator managing hundreds of machines simultaneously. Productive machine-hour cost dropping by 80x, and unlocks the next productivity revolution in physical work.

The mission is to make productivity limitless. Come and help us build it.

The Role

Hive is looking for experienced industrial machine operators to support our growing US operations.

You will work with industrial machines in teleoperated and supervised autonomy operations, supporting safe and reliable customer operations.

This is a hands-on role for people who know industrial equipment, have strong operational judgment and are interested in working with new technology.

What You Will Do

• Operate and supervise industrial machines using Hive systems.
• Support teleoperated and supervised autonomy operations.
• Monitor machine operation and respond when required.
• Operate equipment manually during testing, deployment and operations when needed.
• Follow site, safety and operating procedures.
• Identify operational issues and provide practical feedback to Hive’s technical and operations teams.
• Support testing, validation and continuous improvement.
• Work professionally with customers and other operators at active industrial sites.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong experience operating industrial or heavy equipment.
• Professional experience with forklifts, wheel loaders or similar machinery.
• Experience across multiple machine types is strongly preferred.
• Strong safety awareness and good operational judgment.
• Reliable, practical and comfortable taking responsibility during a shift.
• Able to communicate clearly and learn new technology and operating systems.
• Willingness to work shifts and travel to customer sites when required.
• Authorization to work in the United States.

Relevant Experience

Relevant backgrounds include warehousing and logistics, construction, mining and aggregates, manufacturing, ports and terminals, recycling and other industrial operations.

Why Hive

This is an opportunity to combine your experience with industrial machinery and the next generation of industrial automation.

You bring the operating experience. We’ll provide the technology and training.