Logistics Manager Trainee: Fast-Track to Leadership

J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc.; Rancho Cucamonga (CA); On-site; USD 51,000 - 63,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

medical benefit

dental benefit

vision benefit

401(k) retirement plan

life insurance

short-term and long-term disability

paid time off commensurate with tenure

six weeks of paid maternity leave

six paid holidays

Job summary

J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc. in Rancho Cucamonga, CA invites applications for a Manager Trainee in the Supply Chain department.

Under supervision, you will learn to manage driver counts, schedules, and provide best-in-class customer service while training for DOT compliance. You’ll gain hands-on experience in fleet operations, personnel management, payroll, budgets, and reporting, with opportunities to advance through a structured program across multiple departments and customer locations

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Transportation/Logistics, Supply Chain, or related field.
• Or High School Diploma/GED with 1 year of experience in management, transportation/logistics, business administration, account management, or related field, and/or equivalent military experience.
• Willingness to travel to account, customer, and company event locations when applicable.
• Willingness to regionally relocate dependent on account assignment.

Responsibilities

• Learn to build and maintain positive professional 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 achieving 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 key performance indicators, 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 (like mud flaps), 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 for account equipment
• 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 the Company'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 based on pick-up and delivery schedules, and other environmental factors on the road ental factors on the road

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Transportation/Logistics, Supply Chain, or related field

High School Diploma/GED

Job description

J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc. in Rancho Cucamonga, CA invites applications for a Manager Trainee in the Supply Chain department.

Under supervision, you will learn to manage driver counts, schedules, and provide best-in-class customer service while training for DOT compliance. You’ll gain hands-on experience in fleet operations, personnel management, payroll, budgets, and reporting, with opportunities to advance through a structured program across multiple departments and customer locations