Know Your Worth / Transport & logistics
Transport careers connect planning, physical operations, documentation, technology, and customer communication. Useful work must respect real capacity, access, equipment, and professional authority. Compare desk-based analysis with shift coverage, travel, site responsibilities, and any training or licensing needed before planning independent services.
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All careersEmployee references are annual US median wages for the cited BLS occupation, which may cover several career paths. Freelance examples add $15,000 for benefits and $20,000 for business costs, then divide by 1,200 billable hours a year. Annual figures are rounded to the nearest $1,000 and hourly figures to the nearest dollar. Figures are before personal taxes, with no percentage fees. Open a guide to see the source or adjust the assumptions in the calculator.
BLS · May 2025 · Logisticians
Coordinates air cargo documentation, capacity, connections, and service exceptions within carrier requirements and applicable specialist training or authorization.
View career → Air freight operations specialistBLS · May 2025 · Buyers and purchasing agents
Organizes carrier requirements, proposal comparisons, and commercial evaluation so transport purchasing decisions consider service evidence and practical operating constraints alongside price.
View career → Carrier procurement specialistBLS · May 2025 · Management analysts
Coordinates temperature-controlled shipments around approved product requirements, transport capacity, handover records, and qualified quality review when operational conditions or evidence change.
View career → Cold chain logistics coordinatorBLS · May 2025 · Logisticians
Supports customs transactions within required authorization, gathering documentation and coordinating approved processes while maintaining clear responsibility for declarations, classification, and regulatory review.
View career → Customs brokerBLS · May 2025 · Logisticians
Coordinates dangerous-goods documentation and compliance processes within required training, authorization, and current official procedures, keeping specialized handling decisions with qualified personnel.
View career → Dangerous goods compliance specialistBLS · May 2025 · Management analysts
Organizes delivery workflows, staffing, communication, and exception handling so customers and operations teams can understand responsibilities when plans change.
View career → Delivery operations managerBLS · May 2025 · Logisticians
Compares distribution structures using demand, service, capacity, and cost assumptions, explaining uncertainty and practical dependencies before recommending a network change.
View career → Distribution network analystBLS · May 2025 · Management analysts
Schedules vehicle maintenance around service requirements, qualified technician capacity, parts, and downtime while leaving technical inspections and repair decisions with authorized professionals.
View career → Fleet maintenance plannerBLS · May 2025 · Management analysts
Coordinates vehicle availability, maintenance, records, suppliers, and operating responsibilities, relying on qualified technical and safety professionals for inspections, repairs, and regulatory decisions.
View career → Fleet managerBLS · May 2025 · Financial and investment analysts
Reviews freight invoices against agreed records and commercial rules, documenting discrepancies and supporting evidence for authorized operational or finance decisions.
View career → Freight audit analystBLS · May 2025 · Logisticians
Coordinates freight movements between shippers and authorized carriers within applicable brokerage requirements, documenting service expectations, commercial terms, and operational responsibilities.
View career → Freight brokerBLS · May 2025 · Logisticians
Organizes shipment coordination across transport providers, documentation, and cross-border dependencies, distinguishing forwarding responsibilities from licensed customs or carrier duties.
View career → Freight forwarderBLS · May 2025 · Logisticians
Organizes international shipment administration and stakeholder communication while ensuring authorized specialists own customs classifications, declarations, and applicable trade decisions.
View career → Import export coordinatorBLS · May 2025 · Logisticians
Coordinates freight handoffs between transport modes, maintaining documentation, timing assumptions, and clear ownership when schedules, equipment, or connection availability change.
View career → Intermodal logistics coordinatorBLS · May 2025 · Logisticians
Maintains reliable stock records through reconciliations, discrepancy investigations, and clear transaction procedures rather than assuming a system quantity matches physical availability.
View career → Inventory control specialistBLS · May 2025 · Operations Research Analysts
Investigates the final delivery stage through route, service, access, and exception data, identifying patterns without attributing operational failures to workers from incomplete records.
View career → Last-mile delivery analystBLS · May 2025 · Logisticians
Coordinates shipment capacity and load information under approved operational procedures, ensuring qualified personnel own safety-critical loading decisions and equipment limits.
View career → Load planning coordinatorBLS · May 2025 · Operations Research Analysts
Analyzes maritime transport information, schedules, costs, and service uncertainty to support planning without confusing published estimates with guaranteed vessel or port performance.
View career → Maritime logistics analystBLS · May 2025 · Web and digital interface designers
Designs transport-service experiences around passenger needs, accessibility, operational constraints, and coordination between digital information and real-world journeys.
View career → Mobility service designerBLS · May 2025 · Industrial Engineers
Develops packaging through material, product, handling, and distribution requirements, validating designs within appropriate engineering competence and product-specific review obligations.
View career → Packaging engineerBLS · May 2025 · Logisticians
Coordinates port-related administrative handoffs, schedules, documentation, and stakeholder updates under terminal procedures and qualified ownership of physical operations.
View career → Port operations coordinatorBLS · May 2025 · Logisticians
Supports rail service planning through schedule, resource, and dependency analysis under operator procedures, keeping movement authority and safety decisions with qualified operational personnel.
View career → Rail operations plannerBLS · May 2025 · Logisticians
Studies returns, repairs, recovery, and disposal workflows to improve traceability and decision making while recognizing product-specific handling, ownership, and environmental requirements.
View career → Reverse logistics analystBLS · May 2025 · Training and development specialists
Delivers road-safety learning within appropriate instructor qualifications and approved materials, adapting scenarios and feedback to the audience without replacing licensing or practical assessment requirements.
View career → Road safety trainerBLS · May 2025 · Operations Research Analysts
Analyzes delivery routes using travel assumptions, capacity, service windows, and operational feedback, distinguishing a mathematical improvement from a plan drivers can actually use.
View career → Route optimization analystBLS · May 2025 · Logisticians
Examines dependencies, disruption scenarios, and response options across a supply network, helping teams test assumptions rather than presenting resilience as a single score.
View career → Supply chain resilience analystBLS · May 2025 · Computer systems analysts
Configures transport systems around shipment workflows, integrations, users, and exception handling, ensuring operational teams can validate and maintain the resulting process.
View career → Transportation management system consultantBLS · May 2025 · Logisticians
Plans transport services around demand, network constraints, access, and operational resources, making tradeoffs visible rather than optimizing a route without regard to its users.
View career → Transport plannerBLS · May 2025 · Computer systems analysts
Implements warehouse software through workflow discovery, configuration, data preparation, testing, and training while respecting physical operations and qualified equipment or safety responsibilities.
View career → Warehouse management system consultantBLS · May 2025 · Management analysts
Coordinates warehouse people, inventory, space, and service processes while ensuring qualified owners control equipment use, safety procedures, and specialized handling requirements.
View career → Warehouse manager