Middle management
The middle management was a management level in an organization lower than the executive management. An individual at this level was responsible for controlling and running the organization, rather than making decisions which was reserved for those at executive management. Aboard Federation starships, middle management included the first officers.
In 2380, during a conversation between Beckett Mariner and Brad Boimler, Mariner expressed her belief that Boimler might become stuck in middle management if he continued sticking to the rules. He would become a little fly trapped in amber, just like Commander Jack Ransom. (LD: "No Small Parts")