Manager Trainee – Logistics Operations Management

Job Description

Manager Trainee | J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc.

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc., with travel and potential for regional relocation required. The company provides essential transportation services, and this position is critical for learning to manage driver counts and non-traditional shifts effectively. The role ensures the safe and timely movement of freight, maintains compliance with Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations, and delivers best-in-class customer service.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Varies, with regional relocation potential and travel required

• Mission: To learn and apply management principles to ensure safe, timely freight movement, driver compliance, and excellent customer service.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Cultivate Relationships: Learn to build and maintain professional relationships with drivers and external carriers to ensure seamless operations and maximize productivity.
• Optimize Operations: Develop proficiency in maximizing fleet efficiency and profitability, making recommendations for continuous improvement and measuring key performance indicators.
• Manage Assets: Gain knowledge on how to manage inventory, physical assets, customer pools, and driver assignments to balance equipment effectively within the market.
• Perform Administrative Duties: Train to execute critical administrative tasks including payroll, budget management, driver counseling, accident reviews, and creating operational or financial reports.
• Resolve Service Issues: Learn to collaborate with drivers, customers, and company personnel to resolve service, routing, planning, and mechanical problems, including providing on-call support.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Entry-level position requiring a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Transportation/Logistics, Supply Chain, or a related field.
• Experience: Willingness to travel to account, customer, and company event locations; ability to work across multiple shifts including nights and/or weekends; willingness to regionally relocate dependent on account assignment.
• Skills: Knowledge of DOT regulations; ability to plan, route, and monitor freight movement; capability to provide best-in-class customer service; foundational understanding of personnel management and driver training; capacity for financial analysis including P&L statements and budgeting.
• Bonus: Experience managing a team; ability to anticipate, recognize, and effectively address conflicts; capability to accurately analyze situations and make productive decisions; adaptability to changing environments; skill in establishing and maintaining healthy working relationships; commitment to meeting team/driver needs and expectations; effective communication skills; aptitude for recognizing and resolving operational or process problems.