Manager Trainee Spring 2027
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, timely movement of freight, load assignment, and high-quality customer service, while learning to ensure compliance with DOT regulations and company policies. The trainee works with internal and external contacts to plan, route, monitor, and deliver freight and loads accurately. The position provides training in fleet and driver operations, personnel management, customer service, budgeting and administrative work, equipment and yard management, safety practices, and freight planning. The role may require working across shifts, regional relocation depending on account assignment, and travel to account, customer, or company event locations when applicable. The position is not eligible for employment-based sponsorship.
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 individual, group, or situational levels.
- 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.
- Prior internship experience.
Responsibilities
- Learn to build and maintain professional relationships with drivers and safe, reliable outside carriers, support new carrier setup, minimize turnover, and maximize ongoing productivity.
- Fill in for absent or unavailable personnel and support special projects related to optimizing fleet operations and profitability.
- Learn personnel management, including training and orienting drivers or employees and assisting with internal and third-party customer systems.
- Develop proficiency in maximizing fleet efficiency and profitability, recommending continuous improvements, measuring key performance indicators, and preparing and presenting customer-specific reporting and financial analysis 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, Net-Revenue budget management, driver counseling, accident reviews, filing and documentation, resolving pay issues, analyzing P&L statements, invoicing, and preparing operational or financial reports.
- 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, including when on call where 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 policies and DOT and company safety requirements.
- Learn to assign loads and plan, route, and monitor freight movement for safe, on-time service and customer requirements, including 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 and two weeks of paid parental leave
- Six paid holidays annually
- Position may be eligible for annual bonus and incentives based on profitability or volumes, subject to company plans and terms
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
