Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers
On the Job
Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers oversee people who are working on transportation, storage, distribution, and other logistical activities for an organization. Their work may involve making sure that the company is operating in accordance with government laws.
Typical Work Tasks
People who work in this career often:
- Approve expenditures.
- Implement organizational process or policy changes.
- Implement transportation changes to reduce environmental impact.
- Investigate industrial or transportation accidents.
- Liaise between departments or other groups to improve function or communication.
- Confer with organizational members to accomplish work activities.
- Confer with organizational members to accomplish work activities.
- Coordinate operational activities with external stakeholders.
- Estimate cost or material requirements.
- Implement organizational process or policy changes.
Typical Working Conditions
- Having telephone conversations.
- Using e-mail.
- Working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions.
- Freedom to make decisions without supervision.
- The freedom to determine tasks, priorities, and goals.
- Responsibility for outcomes and results.
- Working with a group or team.
- Meeting strict deadlines.
- Being in situations in which conflicts arise.
- Sitting.
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