Trying to move a player object to the start location built into each level of the game at level start but the object does not reposition. The player is not a child of another so I am working with root transform here.

//move player to start position (I know find is expensive)
startPosition_GO = GameObject.Find("StartPosition");
playerGO.transform.position = startPosition_GO.transform.position;

//and just to be because
playerGO.transform.position = new Vector3(startPosition_GO.transform.position.x, startPosition_GO.transform.position.y, startPosition_GO.transform.position.z);

player object stays where it was and does not move.

including two images, first before starting the level you can see the starting location game object (the pink square). The code above is called at level start. The second image shows where the player (with the arrow nav icon on it sits after the code is executed.