Also called: Temperature-Controlled Logistics Manager, Cold Chain Specialist
Keeps vaccines, medicines, ice cream, seafood and flowers at the right temperature from factory to store, with sensors, packaging and refrigerated trucks.
A shipment of cancer drugs must stay between 2 and 8 degrees Celsius for its 3,000-mile trip, and your sensors ping you when a trailer warms up in Arizona. You reroute the truck, decide if the drugs are still safe and update the packaging plan so it does not happen again.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in supply chain, logistics or engineering.
Ways in: 4-year college, Certification, On-the-job training. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Food Science, Industrial Engineering.
Growing faster than average. Biologic medicines, meal kits and online groceries need more cold shipping.
Medium risk for 10 years. Sensors and AI track temperatures in real time; judging spoiled loads and fixing routes and packaging stays human.
Classes: Chemistry, Physics, Business class.
Official data: O*NET occupation 11-3071.
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