Manager Trainee – Transportation 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., with location dependent on account assignment. J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. is committed to the safe and timely movement of freight and adherence to regulations. This role is essential for learning to manage driver operations, ensuring compliance, and providing best-in-class customer service in a critical logistics environment.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Regionally Dependent

• Mission: To learn the management of driver operations, ensuring safe and timely freight movement and providing best-in-class customer service.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Driver Relations: Learn to build and maintain positive professional relationships with drivers and safe, reliable outside carriers to minimize turnover and maximize ongoing productivity.
• Fleet Management: Become proficient in maximizing efficiency of fleet operations and profitability, including managing inventory, assets, customer pools, and assignment of drivers.
• Operational Support: Learn to perform administrative duties such as payroll, management of the Net-Revenue budget, driver counseling, and creating operational or financial reports.
• Service & Compliance: Learn to work with drivers, customers, and company personnel to resolve service issues and maintain the Company’s safety culture, ensuring DOT compliance and company safety requirements.
• Freight Logistics: Learn to assign loads and plan, route, and monitor freight movement to provide safe, on-time service and meet customer requirements.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Entry-Level. Minimum qualification: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Transportation/Logistics, Supply Chain, or a related field; OR a High School Diploma/GED.
• Experience: One year of experience in management, transportation/logistics, business administration, account management, or a related field, if a Bachelor’s degree is not held. Experience managing a team is preferred.
• Skills: Ability to work across multiple shifts including nights and/or weekends, willingness to travel to account, customer, and company event locations, and willingness to regionally relocate dependent on account assignment.
• Bonus: Ability to anticipate, recognize, and deal effectively with conflicts; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions; ability to adapt to changing environments; ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships; ability to meet or exceed team/driver needs; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and interpret ideas; ability to recognize and resolve organizational, operational, or process problems.