Manager Trainee – Fleet Operations Management

Job Description

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

The Tone:
This is a full-time, in-person role at J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc., with potential for regional relocation dependent on account assignment. J.B. Hunt provides comprehensive transportation and logistics solutions. This role is crucial for learning the fundamentals of managing operational logistics, ensuring the safe and timely movement of freight, and providing best-in-class customer service, directly contributing to compliance and efficient operations.

The TL;DR
• Role: Manager Trainee
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person with regional relocation potential
• Pay: $50700–$63400 yearly
• Mission: Learn to manage logistics operations, ensuring safe and timely freight movement and driver compliance while providing excellent customer service.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Learn to manage small driver counts and non-traditional shifts, ensuring the safe and timely movement of freight, load assignment, and customer service.
• Acquire skills in personnel management, including driver training, orientation, and building positive relationships to minimize turnover and maximize productivity.
• Become proficient in optimizing fleet operations, maximizing profitability, measuring key performance indicators, and presenting customer-specific financial analysis.
• Learn to perform essential administrative duties such as payroll, net-revenue budget management, driver counseling, and creating operational or financial reports.
• Gain expertise in maintaining the company’s safety culture, enforcing company policies, and resolving service issues with drivers and customers to ensure DOT compliance and on-time delivery.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Transportation/Logistics, Supply Chain, or a related field; OR a High School Diploma/GED with at least one year of experience in management, transportation/logistics, business administration, account management, or equivalent military experience.
• Experience: Willingness to travel to account, customer, and company event locations when applicable, and ability to work across multiple shifts including nights and/or weekends.
• Skills: Ability to adapt to changing environments, accurately analyze situations to reach productive decisions, and establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.
• Bonus: Experience managing a team, ability to anticipate and resolve existing or potential conflicts, and capacity to recognize and resolve organizational, operational, or process problems.