Manager Trainee

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 locations varying by account assignment and requiring travel. J.B. Hunt is a leading transportation and logistics company, providing essential services for the safe and efficient movement of freight. This position is critical for developing future leaders who will ensure the effective management of driver fleets, uphold regulatory compliance, and deliver best-in-class customer service. The role focuses on comprehensive training to equip individuals for success in operational management within the transportation sector.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Varies by account assignment, includes travel

• Mission: To learn and apply management principles to oversee driver operations, ensure regulatory compliance, and deliver exceptional service in freight movement.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Driver Relations: Cultivate and maintain positive professional relationships with drivers and reliable outside carriers to minimize turnover and maximize ongoing productivity.
• Operational Optimization: Maximize the efficiency and profitability of fleet operations, recommend continuous improvements, and present customer-specific reporting and financial analysis.
• Fleet & Asset Coordination: Manage inventory, assets, and customer pools, assigning drivers to balance equipment across the market.
• Compliance & Safety: Maintain the company’s safety culture through daily messages and training, enforce company policies, and ensure DOT compliance and safety requirements are met.
• Logistics & Problem Resolution: Assign loads, plan routes, monitor freight movement for safe and on-time service, and resolve service issues with drivers, customers, and personnel as they arise.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Transportation/Logistics, Supply Chain, or a related field.
• Experience: One year of experience in management, transportation/logistics, business administration, account management, or a related field, or equivalent military experience (if not possessing a Bachelor’s degree).
• Skills: Ability to travel to account, customer, and company event locations when applicable; capacity 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 resolve conflicts; strong analytical skills to reach productive decisions; adaptability to changing environments; capacity to establish and maintain healthy working relationships; effective communication skills to transmit, receive, and interpret ideas; proficiency in recognizing and resolving organizational, operational, or process problems.