Manager Trainee

J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. • Fredericksburg, VA

21d

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 safe, timely freight movement, load assignment, and high-quality customer service, and provides training in DOT compliance. The trainee helps ensure drivers follow company regulations and works with internal and external contacts to plan, route, monitor, and deliver freight and loads accurately.

The position includes learning fleet and personnel management, customer service issue resolution, administrative and financial duties, yard and equipment oversight, and safety practices. The trainee may travel to account, customer, and company event locations and must be willing to relocate regionally depending on account assignment. The role may involve working across multiple shifts, including nights and weekends, when needed.

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 relevant experience and/or equivalent military experience.
• Relevant experience may be in management, transportation/logistics, business administration, account management, or a related field.
• 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 safe, reliable outside carriers to support carrier setup, reduce turnover, and maximize productivity.
• Fill in for absent or unavailable personnel and participate in special projects to optimize fleet operations and profitability.
• Learn personnel management tasks, including training and orienting drivers or 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, resolving pay issues, P&L analysis, invoicing, and operational or financial reporting.
• Learn yard management, including inspecting equipment, replacing parts, completing repairs, and coordinating preventive maintenance and safety-related mechanical repairs with maintenance personnel.
• Work with drivers, customers, and company personnel to resolve service, routing, planning, mechanical, and accessorial pay issues, including when on call as necessary.
• Learn to maintain the company's safety culture through daily driver safety messages, monthly safety briefings, quarterly driver training, annual reviews, and enforcement of company and DOT safety requirements.
• Learn to assign loads and plan, route, and monitor freight movement for safe, on-time service; manage freight exceptions and adjust 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 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, subject to company plan terms

What This Job Offers

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