Manager Trainee – Fleet Operations

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 relocation expected based on account assignment and travel required. As a leader in the transportation and logistics industry, the company values developing new talent. This role is crucial for developing future leaders who will learn to manage fleet operations, ensure the safe and timely movement of freight, provide exceptional customer service, and maintain operational efficiency across various shifts and account assignments.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Relocation expected based on account assignment; travel required.

• Mission: Learn to ensure safe and timely freight movement, driver compliance, and provide best-in-class customer service while mastering key management responsibilities.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Learn fleet management: Become proficient in maximizing the efficiency and profitability of fleet operations, including making recommendations for continuous improvement and measuring key performance indicators.
• Manage driver relations: Learn to build and maintain positive professional relationships with drivers and outside carriers, including training and orienting drivers and employees on various systems.
• Ensure compliance & safety: Learn to maintain the Company’s safety culture, enforce company policies, and ensure compliance with DOT regulations and company safety requirements.
• Oversee freight logistics: Learn to assign loads, plan, route, and monitor freight movement to provide safe, on-time service and meet customer requirements, including managing freight exceptions and driver ETA adjustments.
• Handle administrative tasks: Learn to perform administrative duties such as payroll management, driver counseling, accident reviews, managing budgets, and creating operational or financial reports.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Transportation/Logistics, Supply Chain, or a related field.
• Experience: High School Diploma/GED with 1 year of experience in management, transportation/logistics, business administration, account management, or a related field, and/or equivalent military experience.
• Skills: Willingness to travel to account, customer, and company event locations; ability to work across multiple shifts including nights and/or weekends if needed; willingness to regionally relocate dependent on account assignment.
• Bonus: Experience managing a team, ability to anticipate and resolve conflicts, accurate analytical decision-making, adaptability to changing environments, strong relationship-building skills, excellent customer service orientation, effective communication, and problem-solving abilities.