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., a leading provider of transportation and logistics solutions. This position is crucial for learning the management of driver operations, ensuring the safe and timely movement of freight, and delivering best-in-class customer service. The Manager Trainee will be trained to uphold company regulations and DOT compliance, playing a vital role in efficient logistics planning and execution.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person: Subject to regional relocation
• Pay: $48400–$60500 yearly
• Mission: Learn to manage small driver counts and non-traditional shifts, ensuring safe and timely freight movement and providing best-in-class customer service.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Driver & Carrier Relationship Management: Learn to build and maintain positive professional relationships with drivers and safe, reliable outside carriers, ensuring seamless new carrier set-up, minimizing turnover, and maximizing ongoing productivity.
• Fleet Operations Optimization: Become proficient in maximizing the efficiency of fleet operations and profitability, making recommendations for continuous improvement, measuring key performance indicators, and presenting customer-specific reporting and financial analysis.
• Personnel & System Training: Learn to utilize personnel management, including the training and orientation of drivers and/or employees, providing assistance with internal and third-party (customer) systems.
• Operational Administration: Learn to perform diverse administrative duties such as payroll, management of the Net-Revenue budget, driver counseling, accident reviews, filing and documenting, resolving pay issues, and analyzing P&L statements.
• Freight Movement & Compliance: 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, while maintaining the Company’s safety culture and ensuring DOT compliance.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Possess a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Transportation/Logistics, Supply Chain, or a related field, or a High School Diploma/GED combined with foundational experience.
• Experience: Requires a minimum of 1 year of experience in management, transportation/logistics, business administration, account management, or equivalent military experience, if not holding a Bachelor’s degree.
• Skills: Demonstrated ability to accurately analyze complex situations and reach productive decisions, effectively adapt to changing work environments, establish and maintain healthy working relationships with diverse contacts, and recognize and resolve organizational or operational challenges.
• Bonus: Prior experience managing a team.