Operation & Logistics
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Career opportunity:
Jobs at Every Education Level
Streams within business organizations:
Logistics is a diverse industry with a wide variety of sub-sectors, keeping your daily schedule both interesting and challenging. You’ll learn about many different industries and how they function. You can work for profit as well as non-profit organizations. It’s all up to you and what you’re most interested in doing. A great way to determine what industry best suits you is securing an internship while in school. You can intern at a large corporation, a non-profit, a government agency, and many other places that need individuals with a passion for logistics.
Training courses, workshops and programs to enhance employment opportunities
Skill set required
Employment requirements ( qualifications, certifications, etc)
All candidates for manager positions typically must have several years of logistics experience in distribution centers or warehouses. Individuals seeking employment as a logistics operations manager may also pursue a vocational-technical college program in logistics. Professional associations, such as the American Society of Transportation and Logistics, offer professional certification in the logistics field.
Jobs at Every Education Level
- Planner or Analyst
- Buyer
- Inventory Specalist
- Material Planner
- Transport Coordinator
- Production coordinator
- Operational Planner
Streams within business organizations:
Logistics is a diverse industry with a wide variety of sub-sectors, keeping your daily schedule both interesting and challenging. You’ll learn about many different industries and how they function. You can work for profit as well as non-profit organizations. It’s all up to you and what you’re most interested in doing. A great way to determine what industry best suits you is securing an internship while in school. You can intern at a large corporation, a non-profit, a government agency, and many other places that need individuals with a passion for logistics.
Training courses, workshops and programs to enhance employment opportunities
Skill set required
- Communication skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Analytical skills
- Creative problem-solving
- Political savvy
- Detail-oriented
- Negotiation skills
- Technical savvy
- Foreign language skills an asset
- Critical reasoning
- Project management skills
- Strategic sourcing
Employment requirements ( qualifications, certifications, etc)
All candidates for manager positions typically must have several years of logistics experience in distribution centers or warehouses. Individuals seeking employment as a logistics operations manager may also pursue a vocational-technical college program in logistics. Professional associations, such as the American Society of Transportation and Logistics, offer professional certification in the logistics field.