Costco Career Opportunities
Costco Career Opportunities – Costco is a membership warehouse club. Our members pay a fee to shop with us because they trust us to provide exceptional member service and the best possible prices on quality brand-name merchandise.
But our commitment to value and member service doesn’t begin and end in our warehouses. Click on our business areas below to learn more about the many different ways our employees take care of all Costco members. For Accounting, e-commerce, and IT opportunities, click on Corporate & Technology.
Costco Career Opportunities
1: Warehouses & Business Centers
Our warehouse (store) and Business Center employees work in a fast-paced environment in a variety of positions, preparing and displaying merchandise for sale, learning Costco’s merchandising philosophy firsthand, and providing excellent member service – all while keeping our locations clean and safe. It’s challenging work and we accomplish it as a team.
Typical positions
- Baker
- Bakery wrapper
- Cake decorator
- Cashier
- Cashier Assistant/cart pusher
- Food service assistant
- Forklift driver
- Gas station attendant
- Inventory auditor
- Licensed and non-licensed optician
- Maintenance
- Meat cutter
- Meat sanitation assistant
- Meat wrapper
- Member service assistant
- Membership Assistant
- Membership refund cashier
- Optical sales assistant
- Outside marketer
- Payroll clerk
- Pharmacist
- Pharmacy manager
- Pharmacy sales assistant
- Pharmacy technician
- Receiving clerk
- RTV clerk
- Service deli assistant
- Stocker
- Tire sales assistant
2: Depots and Costco Logistics
Our depot employees work to ensure our products are routed to the right business locations with efficiency and precision.
Our Costco Logistics employees ensure nationwide, best-in-class delivery of big and bulky items, such as furniture and appliances, to our business locations and directly to our members’ homes.
Typical depot positions
- E-commerce clerk
- Equipment operator
- Fleet
- Forklift driver
- Receiving clerk
- Returns clerk
- Service Assistant
- Shipping clerk
- Truck driver
Typical Costco Logistics positions
- Equipment machine operator
- Forklift/electric pallet jack supervisor
- Inventory auditor
- Maintenance clerk
- Receiver/shipper
- Supervisor (hourly)
If your desired location is open for business but is not listed when you search using a nearby ZIP code, please apply directly to the location.
3: Member Service Centers
Our member service center employees respond to member phone calls and chats about memberships, Costco.com products and services, and other member inquiries. Service-minded individuals who remain calm under pressure, enjoy problem-solving, and have good typing skills do well at our member service centers.
Typical positions
- Costco Logistics agent
- E-commerce agent
- Member service agent
- Payroll
- Tech services
4: Costco Wholesale Industries
Our Costco Wholesale Industries facilities offer manufacturing roles across a variety of businesses. CWI employees perform many production and clerical activities to consistently produce high-quality items for our members.
If your desired location is open for business but is not listed when you search using a nearby ZIP code, please apply directly to the location.
Typical positions
- Accounting Clerk
- Auditor
- Forklift driver
- Maintenance Assistant
- Maintenance clerk
- Payroll/personnel clerk
- Production Assistant
- Purchasing clerk
- Quality control clerk
- Shipping and receiving clerk
5: Costco Travel
Our Costco Travel employees support Costco’s expansive vacation and travel business. We are leaders in the leisure travel industry and provide travel services to millions of Costco members throughout the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
Our travel offerings are carefully selected by our skilled travel buyers and include the world’s top destinations, hotels, cruises, and other travel products, so our members can be assured of a quality vacation experience.
Opportunities at Costco Travel
- Accounting
- Administration
- Buying
- Corporate travel
- Data management
- E-commerce
- International
- Marketing
- Member Services
- Reservations
- Technology
6: Corporate & Technology
Costco recruits externally for specialized positions in departments such as accounting, information technology, and e-commerce.
To provide career opportunities for motivated individuals, we recruit Costco employees from our warehouses and other businesses to fill most of our merchandising and other corporate positions.
Below are some of the corporate career paths at our Home Office campus and Regional and Satellite Offices
- Accounting
- E-commerce
- IT
Career Paths
- Accounting
- Administration
- Auditing
- Buying/
merchandising - Communications
- Community relations
- Construction
- Consumer services
- Costco Trading
- E-commerce
- Facilities
- Foodservice
- General liability
- Graphic design
- Human resources
- IT
- Journalism
- Legal
- Logistics
- Marketing
- Payroll
- Property management
- Publishing
- Purchasing
- Quality assurance
- Real estate
- Risk management
- Safety
- Security
- Sustainability
- Taxes
- Technical writing
- Traffic