Manager Trainee
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 position supports the safe and timely movement of freight, load assignment, and best-in-class customer service. The trainee learns to ensure compliance with Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations and company policies, coordinating with internal and external contacts to plan, route, monitor, and deliver freight and loads. The role includes learning fleet operations, driver and employee management, customer service, operational administration, safety practices, and freight planning. It may involve travel to account, customer, and company event locations, regional relocation depending on account assignment, and working non-traditional shifts such as nights, weekends, and overnights. The position is not eligible for employment-based sponsorship. The expected starting pay range is $50,700–$63,400. Starting pay may vary based on skills, education, experience, geography, and other qualifications. The position may be eligible for annual bonuses and incentives based on profitability or volume, under the applicable company plans. Benefits for eligible full-time positions include medical, dental, and vision benefits; a 401(k) retirement plan; life insurance; short- and long-term disability coverage; paid time off based on tenure, including vacation and sick time; six weeks of paid maternity leave; two weeks of paid parental leave; and six paid holidays annually. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc. and Hunt Mexicana S.A. de C.V. are equal employment opportunity employers.
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, and/or equivalent military experience.
- 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; the posting specifically requires willingness to work non-traditional shifts such as nights, weekends, and overnight.
- 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 safe, reliable outside carriers to support carrier setup, minimize turnover, and maximize productivity.
- Fill in for absent or unavailable personnel and participate in special projects to optimize fleet operations and achieve profitability.
- Learn personnel management, including training and orienting drivers and employees and assisting with internal and third-party customer systems.
- Learn to maximize fleet efficiency and profitability, recommend continuous improvements, measure key performance indicators, and prepare and present customer-specific reports and financial analyses, including through face-to-face interactions at customer locations.
- Learn to manage inventory, assets, customer pools, and driver assignments to balance equipment in the market.
- Learn administrative duties such as payroll, management of the net-revenue budget, driver counseling, accident reviews, documentation, resolving pay issues, P&L analysis, invoicing, and operational or financial reporting.
- Learn yard management, including inspecting equipment, replacing parts, completing repairs, and coordinating scheduled preventive maintenance and repairs of safety-related mechanical issues for account equipment as required.
- 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 daily driver safety messages, monthly briefings, quarterly training, annual reviews, and enforcement of company policies and DOT and company safety requirements.
- Learn to assign loads and plan, route, and monitor freight movement to provide safe, on-time service and meet customer requirements, including managing freight exceptions and adjusting driver ETAs for pickup and delivery 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, including vacation and sick time, commensurate with tenure
- Six weeks of paid maternity leave
- Two weeks of paid parental leave
- Six paid holidays annually
- Potential eligibility for annual bonus and incentives based on profitability or volumes
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
