Manager Trainee

J.B. Hunt • Palmetto, GA

11d

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. The role supports the safe and timely movement of freight through load assignment and monitoring, and provides customer service. The trainee learns to ensure compliance with DOT regulations and company requirements while coordinating with internal and external contacts to plan, route, monitor, and deliver freight and loads.

The position includes learning fleet and driver operations, personnel management, customer and carrier relationships, administrative and financial processes, yard and equipment oversight, service issue resolution, safety practices, and freight planning. The role may require travel to account, customer, and company event locations, work across multiple shifts, and regional relocation depending on account assignment.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Transportation/Logistics, Supply Chain, or a related field; OR high school diploma/GED plus one year of experience in management, transportation/logistics, business administration, account management, or a related field; equivalent military experience is also accepted.
• 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 analyze situations accurately 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 outside carriers, supporting carrier setup, retention, and productivity.
• Fill in for absent or unavailable personnel and work on projects to optimize fleet operations and profitability.
• Learn personnel management tasks, including training and orienting drivers and employees and assisting with internal and third-party customer systems.
• Learn to improve fleet efficiency and profitability, recommend continuous improvements, measure key performance indicators, and prepare and present customer-specific reporting and financial analysis.
• Learn to manage inventory, assets, customer pools, and driver assignments to balance equipment in the market.
• Learn administrative duties such as payroll, Net-Revenue budget management, driver counseling, accident reviews, documentation, pay issue resolution, P&L analysis, invoicing, and operational or financial reporting.
• Learn to manage the yard, inspect equipment, replace parts, complete repairs, and coordinate preventive maintenance and resolution of safety-related mechanical issues as required.
• Learn to resolve service, routing, planning, mechanical, and accessorial-pay issues with drivers, customers, and company personnel, including when on call where necessary.
• Learn to maintain the company's safety culture through driver safety messages, briefings, training, annual reviews, policy enforcement, and DOT and company safety compliance.
• Learn to assign loads and plan, route, and monitor freight movement to provide safe, on-time service and meet customer requirements, managing freight exceptions and driver ETA adjustments as needed.

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 and two weeks of paid parental leave
• Six paid holidays annually
• May be eligible for annual bonus and incentives based on profitability or volumes, subject to the company's plans

What This Job Offers

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