Manager Trainee – Fleet Operations Management

Job Description

Manager Trainee Spring 2027 Start | J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc.

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc., an organization of over 22,790 people, with regional relocation potential for account assignment. This position is vital for cultivating future leaders in transportation management, ensuring the safe and timely movement of freight, and delivering best-in-class customer service while maintaining compliance with regulatory standards. This role focuses on learning foundational operational and leadership skills necessary for managing critical logistics functions.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Regional relocation required

• Mission: Learn to manage small driver counts and non-traditional shifts to ensure safe and timely freight movement, provide excellent customer service, and maintain DOT compliance.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Cultivate Relationships: Learn to build and maintain positive professional relationships with drivers and external carriers to minimize turnover and maximize productivity.
• Optimize Operations: Become proficient in maximizing the efficiency and profitability of fleet operations, including measuring KPIs and creating customer-specific reports.
• Oversee Freight Movement: Learn to assign loads, plan routes, and monitor freight movement to ensure safe, on-time service and meet customer requirements.
• Perform Administrative Duties: Learn to handle administrative tasks such as payroll, managing the net-revenue budget, driver counseling, accident reviews, and analyzing P&L statements.
• Maintain Compliance and Safety: Learn to manage the company’s safety culture, enforce company policies, and ensure DOT compliance and company safety requirements are met.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Transportation/Logistics, Supply Chain, or a related field. This is an entry-level management trainee position.
• Experience: Willingness to travel to account, customer, and company event locations when applicable, work across multiple shifts including nights and/or weekends if needed, and regionally relocate dependent on account assignment. Alternatively, a High School Diploma/GED with 1 year of experience in management, transportation/logistics, business administration, or account management, or equivalent military experience.
• Skills: Ability to accurately analyze situations and make productive decisions, adapt to changing environments, establish and maintain healthy working relationships, and effectively transmit and interpret ideas.
• Bonus: Experience managing a team, anticipating and resolving conflicts, recognizing and resolving operational problems, and prior intern experience.