Manager Trainee

J.B. Hunt • Riverview, FL

2d

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, timely freight movement, load assignment, and high-quality customer service. The role receives training in DOT compliance and company regulations and works with internal and external contacts to plan, route, monitor, and deliver freight and loads accurately.

The trainee develops knowledge of fleet operations, driver and employee management, customer reporting, financial analysis, inventory and equipment balancing, administrative processes, yard and maintenance coordination, service issue resolution, and the company’s safety culture. The position may require working across shifts, traveling to account, customer, or company-event locations, and regionally relocating depending on account assignment.

This position is not eligible for employment-based sponsorship. Starting compensation may vary based on skills, education, experience, geography, and other qualifications. The role may be eligible for annual bonuses and incentives based on profitability or volumes, subject to applicable company plans. The company describes this position as full-time and provides benefits subject to eligibility requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Transportation/Logistics, Supply Chain, or a related field; alternatively, a high school diploma or GED with 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.
• 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 situational 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 communicate, 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, supporting carrier setup, retention, and productivity.
• Fill in for absent or unavailable personnel and participate in special projects to optimize fleet operations and profitability.
• Learn personnel-management practices, 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 analyses.
• 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, resolving pay issues, analyzing P&L statements, invoicing, and creating operational or financial reports.
• Learn yard-management duties, including inspecting equipment, replacing parts, completing repairs, and coordinating scheduled preventive maintenance and repair of safety-related mechanical issues.
• Work with drivers, customers, and company personnel to resolve service, routing, planning, mechanical, and accessorial-pay issues, including when on call where necessary.
• Learn to maintain the company’s safety culture through daily safety messages, monthly briefings, quarterly training, annual reviews, and enforcement of company policies and DOT and safety requirements.
• Learn to assign loads and plan, route, and monitor freight to provide safe, on-time service and meet customer requirements, including managing freight exceptions and adjusting driver ETAs 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, 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 annual bonus and incentives based on profitability or volumes, subject to applicable company plans

What This Job Offers

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