Transportation Managers
Plan, direct, or coordinate the transportation operations within an organization or the activities of organizations that provide transportation services.
Also called: Fleet Manager, Train Operations Manager, Trainmaster, Transportation Manager
Knowledge:
- movement of people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road
- management
- customer service
- public safety and security
- law and government
- arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
Skills:
- reading work related information
- talking to others
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
- changing what is done based on other people's actions
- bringing people together to solve differences
Abilites:
- communicate by speaking
- communicate by writing
- notice when problems happen
- use rules to solve problems
- add, subtract, multiply, or divide
- choose the right type of math to solve a problem
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.
They do well at jobs that need
- Dependability
- Stress Tolerance
- Leadership
- Cooperation
- Self Control
- Integrity
Technology:
Materials requirements planning logistics and supply chain software
- Cadre Technologies Cadence Transportation Management System
- IBM i2 Transportation Manager
Analytical or scientific software
- Freight Rail Crew Optimization Scheduling FRCOS software
- IMSure Solutions SHIPflex
Data base user interface and query software
- Microsoft Access
- Structured query language SQL
