Transportation, Storage, & Distribution Managers

Also called: Distribution Center Manager, Fleet Manager, Logistics Operations Manager

Career Cluster: Transportation, Distribution & Logistics
What they do:
Plan, direct, or coordinate transportation, storage, or distribution activities in accordance with organizational policies and applicable government laws or regulations. Includes logistics managers.
On the job, you would:
  • Supervise the activities of workers engaged in receiving, storing, testing, and shipping products or materials.
  • Plan, develop, or implement warehouse safety and security programs and activities.
  • Inspect physical conditions of warehouses, vehicle fleets, or equipment and order testing, maintenance, repairs, or replacements.
Knowledge icon KNOWLEDGE

Transportation
  • movement of people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road
Math and Science
  • arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
Arts and Humanities
  • English language
Business
  • management
  • customer service
Skills Image SKILLS

Basic Skills
  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • reading work related information
People and Technology Systems
  • figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
  • measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it
Problem Solving
  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
Abilities Image ABILITIES

Ideas and Logic
  • make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
  • notice when problems happen
Verbal
  • communicate by writing
  • listen and understand what people say
Personality Image PERSONALITY

People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.

They do well at jobs that need:
  • Initiative
  • Leadership Orientation
  • Adaptability
  • Achievement Orientation
  • Integrity
  • Attention to Detail
Technology Image TECHNOLOGY

You might use software like this on the job:

Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software
  • USPS.com
  • Warehouse management system WMS
Presentation software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
Enterprise resource planning ERP software
  • Microsoft Dynamics
  • SAP software
Job Outlook Image JOB OUTLOOK


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New job opportunities are very likely in the future.


Salary:
High: $194,900.00
Median: $107,230.00
Low: $65,120.00
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