Manager Trainee – Fleet Operations Management

Job Description

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

The Tone:
This is a full-time Manager Trainee position at J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc., a large transportation and logistics organization. This role is crucial for learning the fundamentals of managing operational logistics, including driver oversight and freight movement. The position is designed to develop future leaders who can ensure the safe and timely delivery of freight while upholding high standards of customer service and regulatory compliance. Success in this role directly supports the company’s commitment to efficient operations and client satisfaction.

The TL;DR
• Role: Manager Trainee
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Potential for regional relocation and travel required

• Mission: Learn to manage small driver counts and non-traditional shifts, ensuring safe and timely freight movement, DOT compliance, and best-in-class customer service.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Fleet Operations Management: Learn to maximize the efficiency and profitability of fleet operations, including making recommendations for continuous improvement, measuring key performance indicators, and creating customer-specific reporting and financial analysis through direct interactions.
• Driver & Personnel Development: Learn to build and maintain positive professional relationships with drivers and safe, reliable outside carriers, manage personnel through training and orientation, and assist with internal and customer systems.
• Logistics Planning & Monitoring: Learn to assign loads, plan, route, and monitor freight movement to ensure safe, on-time service, meet customer requirements, and manage freight exceptions and driver ETA adjustments based on various factors.
• Compliance & Safety Oversight: Learn to maintain the Company’s safety culture through daily driver safety messages, monthly briefings, quarterly training, and annual reviews, enforce company policies, and ensure DOT compliance and company safety requirements are met.
• Administrative & Asset Handling: Learn to perform administrative duties such as payroll, management of the Net-Revenue budget, driver counseling, and accident reviews, and gain knowledge on managing inventory, assets, customer pools, and yard operations, including equipment checks and maintenance coordination.

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 1 year of experience in management, transportation/logistics, business administration, account management, or a related field, and/or equivalent military experience. This is an entry-level position.
• Experience: Minimum of 1 year of experience in management, transportation/logistics, business administration, or account management if not holding a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• Skills: Ability to anticipate, recognize, and effectively resolve individual, group, or situational conflicts; ability to accurately analyze situations and make productive decisions based on informed judgment; ability to adapt to changing environments and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas through various mediums; ability to recognize, anticipate, and resolve organizational, operational, or process problems.
• Bonus: Experience managing a team, willingness to travel to account, customer, and company event locations when applicable, ability to work across multiple shifts including nights and/or weekends if needed, and willingness to regionally relocate dependent on account assignment.