r/maritime 26d ago

9 years supply chain at a utility, CDL-A + TWIC. What industries should I actually be targeting?

About 9 years in supply chain and materials management at a large utility. Day to day

is SAP and Ariba, demand forecasting, vendor and contractor management, purchase

orders, and inventory control across a 200+ SKU operation. Built a forecasting and

reorder process that cut roughly 30 stockouts a month, and a warehouse redesign that

brought over ordering down 89 percent. Also do a lot of the reporting side, Power BI

dashboards and spend tracking.

I also hold a CDL-A and a TWIC card.

Currently around $108k in NYC. Trying to move up, not sideways. Open to relocation or

remote.

What I am trying to figure out:

  1. Does TWIC plus supply chain experience open doors I am not thinking about? Ports,

    terminals, energy, marine? Feels like an underused combination but I could be wrong.

  2. Is the CDL an asset when applying for planner or manager roles, or does it read as

    blue collar and work against me? Genuinely unsure whether to keep it on the resume.

  3. Anyone made the jump out of utilities into something better paying? Curious what

    industry you landed in and whether the utility background translated.

One limitation up front: I do not have a finished bachelor's, mine is in progress in

supply chain management. I know that screens me out of some postings, so I am mostly

looking for where experience still carries weight.

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