Logistics & Fleet Operations Trainee

J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc.

St. Louis (MO)

On-site

USD 52,000 - 76,000

Full time

8 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) retirement plan

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Paid time off

Maternity and parental leave

Paid holidays

Job summary

J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc. in St.

Louis, MO is seeking a Manager Trainee to learn and support the management of a small driver count and non-traditional shifts, including nights and weekends. The role focuses on safe, timely freight movement, load assignment, and best-in-class customer service, with training to ensure DOT compliance and proper driver and company regulation adherence. The position involves payroll duties, revenue budgeting, driver coaching, and reporting, with opportunities for

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Transportation/Logistics, Supply Chain, or related field, OR High School Diploma/GED with 1 year of experience.
Willingness to travel to account, customer, and company event locations.
Ability to work across multiple shifts including nights and/or weekends.
Willingness to regionally relocate depending on account assignment.
Experience managing a team.
Anticipate, recognize, and deal with 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/driver needs and provide excellent service.

Responsibilities

Learn to build and maintain positive relationships with drivers and safe, reliable outside carriers to ensure seamless new carrier set-up, minimize turnover, and maximize ongoing productivity.
Fill in for absent or unavailable personnel and on special projects related to optimizing fleet operations and profitability.
Learn to utilize personnel management including training and orientation of drivers and/or employees including the training and assistance with internal and third party (customer) systems.
Become proficient in maximizing efficiency of fleet operations and profitability and making recommendations for continuous improvement, measuring KPIs, and creating, maintaining and presenting customer specific reporting and financial analysis through face-to-face interactions at customer location.
Gain knowledge on how to manage inventory, assets, customer pools and/or assignment of drivers to balance equipment in market.
Learn to perform administrative duties such as payroll, management of the Net-Revenue budget, driver counseling, accident reviews, filing and documenting, resolving pay issues, analyzing P&L statements, invoicing and/or creating operational or financial reports.
Learn to manage yard including checking/inspecting equipment, replacing parts, completing repairs, etc., and coordinating with maintenance to ensure all regular preventative maintenance services are scheduled on time and all safety related mechanical issues are fixed.
Learn to work with drivers, customers, and company personnel to resolve service issues, routing and/or planning, mechanical problems, accessorial pay related issues, etc., as they occur throughout the day and, where necessary, when on call.
Learn to maintain theCompany's safety culture to include daily driver safety messages, monthly driver safety briefings, quarterly driver training, annual reviews, and enforce company policies to ensure DOT compliance and company safety requirements are being met.
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 driver ETA adjustments.