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Manager Trainee

Key Responsibilities

• Learn to build and maintain positive professional relationships with drivers and safe, reliable outside carriers.
• 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.
• Assist with internal and third-party (customer) systems.
• Become proficient in maximizing efficiency of fleet operations and profitability.
• Make recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Measure key performance indicators.
• Create, maintain, and present customer-specific reporting and financial analysis through face-to-face interactions at customer locations.
• 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.
• Coordinate with maintenance to ensure all regular preventative maintenance services are scheduled on time and all safety-related mechanical issues are fixed for account equipment (as required).
• 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.
• Learn to maintain the Company's safety culture, including daily driver safety messages, monthly driver safety briefings, quarterly driver training, and annual reviews.
• 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.
• Manage freight exceptions and driver ETA adjustments based on pick-up and delivery schedules, and other environmental factors on the road.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• 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 (Preferred).
• 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 expectations and provide excellent service in a direct or indirect manner.
• Ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas through various mediums.
• Ability to recognize, anticipate, and resolve organizational, operational, or process problems.

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.
• Anticipate, recognize, and deal effectively with existing or potential conflicts at the individual, group, or situation level.