Manager Trainee

Job Description

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

The Tone:
This is a full-time, early career role at J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc., a large logistics and transportation company focused on the safe and timely movement of freight. This position is responsible for developing future leaders who will manage driver operations, ensure regulatory compliance, and provide best-in-class customer service. This role is crucial for supporting the efficient delivery of goods and maintaining operational excellence within the company’s service offerings.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Relocation required / Dependent on account assignment

• Mission: To learn and contribute to the management of driver operations, ensuring safe and timely freight movement, regulatory compliance, and excellent customer service.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Develop operational expertise: Learn to manage a small driver count and/or non-traditional shifts, ensuring safe and timely freight movement, load assignment, and best-in-class customer service.
• Foster key relationships: Build and maintain positive professional relationships with drivers and external carriers to ensure seamless new carrier set-up, minimize turnover, and maximize ongoing productivity.
• Optimize fleet performance: Become proficient in maximizing the efficiency and profitability of fleet operations, making recommendations for continuous improvement, and creating customer-specific reporting and financial analysis.
• Execute administrative tasks: Perform various administrative duties including payroll, management of the Net-Revenue budget, driver counseling, accident reviews, and creating operational or financial reports.
• Ensure safety and compliance: Learn to maintain the company’s safety culture, including daily driver safety messages, regular briefings and training, and enforcing company policies to ensure DOT compliance.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Transportation/Logistics, Supply Chain, or a related field.
• Experience: Entry-level experience; alternatively, a High School Diploma/GED with 1 year of experience in management, transportation/logistics, business administration, account management, 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, recognize, and effectively deal with conflicts; ability to accurately analyze situations and make productive decisions; adaptability to changing environments; ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers; ability to meet or exceed team/driver needs and expectations; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and interpret ideas; ability to recognize, anticipate, and resolve organizational, operational, or process problems.