Manager Trainee – Logistics Operations

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., located across various company sites due to potential regional relocation requirements. J.B. Hunt is a leading transportation services organization focused on managing the safe and timely movement of freight. This role is crucial for developing future leaders who will ensure operational efficiency, maintain driver satisfaction, and deliver best-in-class customer service while upholding regulatory compliance.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: various J.B. Hunt locations

• Mission: Learn to manage small driver counts and non-traditional shifts, ensuring safe and timely freight movement and compliance with company and DOT regulations.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Relationship Management & Training: Learn to build and maintain professional relationships with drivers and outside carriers to ensure seamless carrier setup and minimize turnover. This also involves training and orienting drivers and employees on internal and customer systems.
• Operational Optimization & Reporting: Become proficient in maximizing fleet operations efficiency and profitability, which includes measuring key performance indicators, creating and presenting customer-specific reports, and performing financial analysis.
• Logistics & Asset Management: Gain knowledge in managing inventory, company assets, and customer pools, as well as assigning drivers to balance equipment effectively within the market.
• Administrative & Compliance Duties: Learn to perform essential administrative tasks such as payroll, managing budgets, driver counseling, accident reviews, invoicing, and creating various operational or financial reports. This also encompasses maintaining the company’s safety culture, conducting driver briefings and training, and enforcing DOT compliance.
• Yard Management & Service Resolution: Learn to manage the yard by inspecting equipment, performing minor repairs, and coordinating with maintenance for preventative services and safety fixes. Additionally, resolve service issues, routing problems, and mechanical or pay-related concerns by working with drivers, customers, and company personnel, including being on-call when necessary.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Transportation/Logistics, Supply Chain, or a related field. This is an entry-level position focused on management training.
• Experience: Requires a minimum of 1 year of experience in management, transportation/logistics, business administration, or account management if possessing a High School Diploma/GED instead of a Bachelor’s degree. Candidates must be willing to travel to account, customer, and company event locations, work across multiple shifts including nights and weekends, and be open to regional relocation based on account assignment.
• Skills: Ability to anticipate, recognize, and effectively manage conflicts at various levels; accurately analyze situations to make productive, informed judgments; adapt to changing environments; establish and maintain healthy working relationships with diverse stakeholders; effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas; and recognize, anticipate, and resolve organizational, operational, or process problems.
• Bonus: Prior experience managing a team is preferred.