Manager Trainee

J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. • Leetsdale, PA

3d

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 and timely freight movement, load assignment, and best-in-class customer service, and receives training in compliance with DOT regulations. The trainee is responsible for learning to ensure drivers comply with company regulations while coordinating with internal and external contacts to plan, route, monitor, and deliver freight and loads accurately.

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 deal effectively with existing or potential conflicts at the individual, group, or situation level.
• Ability to accurately analyze situations and reach 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 positive 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 achieve profitability.
• Learn personnel management, including training and orienting drivers and/or 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 create, maintain, and present customer-specific reports and financial analyses, including through face-to-face interactions at customer locations.
• Gain knowledge of managing inventory, assets, customer pools, and driver assignments to balance equipment in the market.
• Learn administrative duties such as payroll, managing the Net-Revenue budget, driver counseling, accident reviews, filing and documentation, resolving pay issues, analyzing P&L statements, invoicing, and preparing operational or financial reports.
• Learn to manage the yard, inspect equipment, replace parts, complete repairs, and coordinate maintenance to ensure preventative services are scheduled and safety-related mechanical issues are fixed for account equipment as required.
• Learn to 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 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 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 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 the applicable plans

What This Job Offers

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