Transportation and Material Moving
Find detailed information about careers in the Transportation and Material Moving industry
Are you interested in getting a rewarding, secure career in the transportation industry? Work in the field of transport can be lucrative and rewarding—especially if you like the idea of traveling the country operating a locomotive, or piloting a commercial jet, or as the crew or engineer on an ocean vessel.
Below, you’ll find a complete list of professions in the Transportation & Material Moving industry, along with detailed information for each profession.
Many careers in Transportation require a specialized degree (like aviation inspectors and many more) or certification (like ship captains, or traffic technicians, or air traffic controllers, just to name a few). To learn the details about any one career in the Transportation field, pick one from the list of careers below.
As the economy establishes new emphases in the coming years, work in the Transportation industry—roads and rails, shipping and public transportation—is set to demonstrate strong growth. There’s an incredible variety of rewarding and interesting careers to be found in the future of Transportation.
Select Transportation and Material Moving Career:
- Air Traffic Controllers
- Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors
- Airfield Operations Specialists
- Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers
- Ambulance Drivers and Attendants, Except Emergency Medical Technicians
- Aviation Inspectors
- Bridge and Lock Tenders
- Bus Drivers, School
- Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity
- Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels
- Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment
- Commercial Pilots
- Conveyor Operators and Tenders
- Crane and Tower Operators
- Dredge Operators
- Driver/Sales Workers
- Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators
- First-Line Supervisors/Managers of Helpers, Laborers, and Material Movers, Hand
- First-Line Supervisors/Managers of Transportation and Material-Moving Machine and Vehicle Operators
- Freight and Cargo Inspectors
- Gas Compressor and Gas Pumping Station Operators
- Hoist and Winch Operators
- Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators
- Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
- Loading Machine Operators, Underground Mining
- Locomotive Engineers
- Locomotive Firers
- Machine Feeders and Offbearers
- Material Moving Workers, All Other
- Mates- Ship, Boat, and Barge
- Motor Vehicle Operators, All Other
- Motorboat Operators
- Packers and Packagers, Hand
- Parking Lot Attendants
- Pilots, Ship
- Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers
- Rail Transportation Workers, All Other
- Rail Yard Engineers, Dinkey Operators, and Hostlers
- Railroad Brake, Signal, and Switch Operators
- Railroad Conductors and Yardmasters
- Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors
- Sailors and Marine Oilers
- Service Station Attendants
- Ship and Boat Captains
- Ship Engineers
- Shuttle Car Operators
- Subway and Streetcar Operators
- Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders
- Taxi Drivers and Chauffeurs
- Traffic Technicians
- Transportation Inspectors
- Transportation Vehicle, Equipment and Systems Inspectors, Except Aviation
- Transportation Workers, All Other
- Truck Drivers, Heavy and Tractor-Trailer
- Truck Drivers, Light or Delivery Services
- Wellhead Pumpers




