Manager Trainee

J.B. Hunt • Joliet, IL

17d

About The Position

Under general supervision, the Manager Trainee learns to manage a small driver count and/or non-traditional shifts, including nights and weekends, while ensuring safe and timely freight movement, load assignment, and high-quality customer service. The position provides training in DOT compliance and company regulations and involves coordinating with internal and external contacts to plan, route, monitor, and deliver freight and loads.

The role develops skills in driver and carrier relations, fleet operations, customer service, personnel management, reporting and financial analysis, equipment and yard management, administrative duties, safety programs, and freight planning. Travel to account, customer, and company event locations may be required. Regional relocation may be required depending on account assignment. The expected starting pay range is $50,700–$63,400. The position may be eligible for annual bonus and incentives based on profitability or volumes, subject to applicable company plans. This position is not eligible for employment-based sponsorship.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Transportation/Logistics, Supply Chain, or a related field; OR a high school diploma/GED plus one year of experience in management, transportation/logistics, business administration, account management, or a related field; equivalent military experience may also qualify.
• 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.
• Willingness to relocate regionally depending on account assignment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience managing a team.
• Ability to anticipate, recognize, and effectively address existing or potential conflicts at the individual, group, or situation level.
• Ability to accurately analyze situations and make productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• Ability to adapt to changing environments.
• Ability to establish and maintain healthy working relationships with clients, vendors, and peers.
• Ability to meet or exceed team and driver needs and expectations and provide excellent service directly or indirectly.
• Ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas through various mediums.
• Ability to recognize, anticipate, and resolve organizational, operational, or process problems.

Responsibilities

• Learn to build and maintain professional relationships with drivers and safe, reliable outside carriers to support carrier setup, reduce turnover, and maximize productivity.
• Fill in for absent or unavailable personnel and assist with special projects to optimize fleet operations and profitability.
• Learn personnel management, including training and orienting drivers and employees and assisting with internal and third-party customer systems.
• Develop proficiency in improving fleet efficiency and profitability, recommending continuous improvements, measuring key performance indicators, and preparing and presenting customer-specific reports and financial analysis.
• Learn to manage inventory, assets, customer pools, and driver assignments to balance equipment in the market.
• Learn administrative duties, including payroll, Net-Revenue budget management, driver counseling, accident reviews, filing and documentation, pay issue resolution, P&L analysis, invoicing, and operational or financial reporting.
• Learn yard management, including inspecting equipment, replacing parts, completing repairs, and coordinating preventative maintenance and resolution of safety-related mechanical issues.
• Work with drivers, customers, and company personnel to resolve service, routing, planning, mechanical, and accessorial-pay issues as they arise, including when on call where necessary.
• Learn to maintain the company's safety culture through driver safety messages, briefings, training, annual reviews, and enforcement of company and DOT safety requirements.
• Learn to assign loads and plan, route, and monitor freight for safe, on-time service and customer requirements, managing freight exceptions and driver ETA adjustments based on schedules and road conditions.

Benefits

• Medical benefit
• Dental benefit
• Vision benefit
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Paid time off commensurate with tenure, including vacation and sick time
• Six weeks of paid maternity leave
• Two weeks of paid parental leave
• Six paid holidays annually
• May be eligible for annual bonus and incentives based on profitability or volumes, under applicable company plans

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level