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Senior Logistics Technician

Swiftkey

Chicago, ILJobPosted 3 days agoStill listed 2 days ago

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Location
Chicago, IL
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Job overview

The Senior Logistics Technician coordinates logistics, inventory, deliveries, vendor activity, and data-bearing device destruction and server decommissioning. The role supports technicians, audits fleet and supplies, addresses procurement and vendor issues, and helps improve receiving processes and sustainability initiatives. It requires a high school diploma and experience in warehouse or supply chain work, with additional experience operating heavy-load movement equipment or equivalent experience described.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Stakeholder Management, nice to haveVendor Management, nice to haveData-Bearing Device Reconciliation, nice to haveServer Decommissioning, nice to haveTransportation Coordination, nice to haveInventory Management, nice to haveHeavy-Load Equipment Operation, required

Qualifications

High School Diploma, required2+ Years Warehouse or Supply Chain Experience, required4+ Years Warehouse or Supply Chain Experience or Equivalent, requiredCitizenship Verification, required

Full job description

Customer Service Maintains a strong focus to optimize resources and improve quality. Positions organization to deliver solutions that exceed customer expectations. Maintains a strong stakeholder focus to improve quality and ensures that the customer receives the highest return on investment. Engages with internal and external stakeholders, building relationships with vendors and providing oversight, to manage issues as they arise. Collaborates with the IAM Standard team and Engineering team to execute and refine pilot processes, tools, or feature enhancements. Ensures team is following all processes and procedures to do this in a timely manner. Manages schedule of data bearing devices (DBD) destruction or shredding in partnership with security and senior leadership. Assists with security investigations, supporting data bearing devices (DBD) reconciliations with review of current documentation and extensive back tracking of ticket details. Coordinates with and oversees any third-party vendors who perform data bearing devices (DBD) destruction as necessary. Ensures team decommissions servers, maintaining compliance and meeting Service Level Agreements (SLAs), overseeing documentation of actions taken against a decommissioning workflow. Manage, route, and fulfill transportation requests for Information Technology, Critical Environment, and Logistics, and other supported teams. Audits vehicles and fleet resources, ensuring vehicles are present in the correct location with assigned resources (e.g., gas card, gas card PIN). Provides technical support and task specific guidance to a team of technicians responsible for preparing and executing incoming/outgoing deliveries and documenting inbound/outbound packages (e.g. purchase order [PO] receiving, Rack Movement Supervisor [RMS] activities) based on site-class designation. Coordinates with external stakeholders including third-party warehouses, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) vendors, and suppliers as necessary to facilitate inbound and outbound deliveries. Supports creating more efficient receiving routes, moving manual communication and information sharing to automated processes, where possible. Ensures teams maintain and perform steps required to keep the inventory balance accurate. Facilitates and pilots environmental sustainability and zero waste initiatives. Assists senior leadership with escalated procurement issues. Performs quality control for purchase order and escalations with vendors. Audits on-site supplies and deployment consumables. Manages and coordinates any escalated task risks and reported issues, establishing safety standard operating procedures for new equipment (e.g., server rack tugs, electric pallet jacks, forklifts). Working 12-hour shifts, including shift assignments during non-standard business hours such as evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays. Ensures teams process failed vendor hardware devices using online/other tools and processes RMAs and non-RMA as needed. Performs manual ordering processes of Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) parts. High School Diploma AND 2+ years experience in warehouse/supply chain in an information technology (IT) environment, logistics, supply chain, inventory management, retail, or a related field. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Citizenship verification: This position requires verification of citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate's citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Candidates must have authorization to work in the United States that does not now or in the future require employer sponsorship. 4+ years experience in warehouse/supply chain in an information technology (IT) environment, IT, and/or logistics, operating heavy-load movement equipment (e.g. forklift, pallet jacks, chassis lifts) for a large corporation. OR equivalent experience.

How this job compares

Set against the 1,852 open Warehouse Operations jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Illinois median$68–102K/yr25 salary ranges
  • Illinois median$23–24/hr55 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 94 open Warehouse Operations jobs in Illinois and 1,852 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Illinois
Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Warehouse Operations postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years at the median (945 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a high school diploma; 697 of the 1,852 open Warehouse Operations jobs (38%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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