About the Role
This position is responsible for learning the management of a small driver count and/or non-traditional shifts, ensuring safe and timely movement of freight, load assignment, and providing best-in-class customer service. The role involves training on DOT regulations, driver compliance, and coordinating freight movement with internal and external contacts.
Responsibilities
- Learn to build and maintain positive professional relationships with drivers and carriers.
- Minimize driver turnover and maximize ongoing productivity.
- Fill in for absent personnel and work on special projects to optimize fleet operations and profitability.
- Learn to utilize personnel management, including training and orientation of drivers and employees.
- Become proficient in maximizing fleet operations efficiency and profitability.
- Make recommendations for continuous improvement and measure key performance indicators.
- Create, maintain, and present customer-specific reporting and financial analysis.
- Gain knowledge on how to manage inventory, assets, customer pools, and driver assignments.
- Learn to perform administrative duties such as payroll, Net-Revenue budget management, driver counseling, and accident reviews.
- Analyze P&L statements, handle invoicing, and create operational or financial reports.
- Learn to manage the yard, including equipment inspection, basic repairs, and coordinating maintenance.
- Learn to work with drivers, customers, and company personnel to resolve service, routing, and mechanical issues.
- Learn to maintain the Company's safety culture, including driver safety messages, briefings, and training.
- Enforce company policies to ensure DOT compliance and safety requirements.
- Learn to assign loads and plan, route, and monitor freight movement for safe, on-time service.
- Manage freight exceptions and driver ETA adjustments based on various factors.
Requirements
- 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.
- Willing 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 regionally relocate dependent on account assignment.
- Experience managing a team.
- Ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions.
- 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 expectations and provide excellent service.
- Ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas through various mediums.
- Ability to recognize, anticipate, and resolve organizational, operational, or process problems.
- This position is not eligible for employment-based sponsorship.
Skills
- Management
- Transportation/Logistics
- Business Administration
- Account Management
- Customer Service
- Personnel Management
- Fleet Operations
- Financial Analysis
- Inventory Management
- Asset Management
- Yard Management
- Safety Culture
- DOT Compliance
Location
- Schodack Landing, New York, United States of America
Work Type
- Full time
Experience Level
- Entry Level
- Management
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration
- Bachelor's degree in Transportation/Logistics
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain
- GED
- High School Diploma
Salary/Compensations
- $46,100.00 - $57,600.00
Benefits
- Medical benefit
- Dental benefit
- Vision benefit
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Life insurance
- Short-term disability coverage
- Long-term disability coverage
- Paid time off commensurate with tenure (includes vacation and sick time)
- Six weeks of paid maternity leave
- Two weeks of paid parental leave
- Six paid holidays annually
About the Company
- J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc. is committed to basing employment decisions on the principles of equal employment opportunity.
Equal Opportunity
- Equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, persons with disabilities, protected veterans or other bases by applicable law.
