Axle Logistics of Knoxville, TN is looking to hire highly motivated individuals for our 2025 Summer Internship Program. As an Operations Intern, you will be responsible to coordinate all processes and functions of shipment planning and freight movement. You will be helping our customers move their inventory in the most cost-effective way by identifying and providing logistics solutions as well as providing visibility to management and clients in the form of tracking & tracing, auditing, researching, and troubleshooting all operational issues.
What’s the opportunity?
Based in the brand-new Knoxville, TN headquarters, this highly competitive Summer Internship Program grants exposure to the fast-paced world of Logistics. Responsible for collaborating with its internal Axle team, this internship provides the skills and techniques to be an operations manager in an ever-changing and dynamic industry.
What does the position require?
- Operations Management
- Strong communication skills both verbal and written
- First-class customer service to clients and carriers
- Ability to multitask within a fast-paced industry
- Capability to prioritize time-sensitive tasks
- Properly execute rate negotiations with partner carriers within the spot market
- Implementation of services
What is Axle looking for?
- Highly motivated candidates looking to expand industry knowledge
- Strong email, phone, and face-to-face communication skills
- Fast learner capable of working independently as well as a team
- Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment
- Interest in a future career in third party logistics
About Axle Logistics
Axle Logistics is a non-asset based, third-party logistics (3PL) company with a focus on providing safe, reliable, advanced transportation services (Truckload, LTL, Intermodal, and Warehousing) to a wide variety of customers throughout the continental U.S., Canada and Mexico.
Axle Logistics was built with the overall vision of bringing a sense of comfort and convenience to an industry often filled with inefficiencies by providing specialized customer service and unique overall philosophy and approach to logistics management.
Axle Logistics provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.