Description

This position is responsible for the mechanical operations in the shop, yard, mainline environment, or assigned territory. The assigned territory may include maintenance, repair, service, and inspection of locomotives and cars to ensure they are safely maintained in a quality, cost-effective manner. This position ensures that safety requirements are met and are in compliance with regulatory agencies. This position suggests and plans equipment maintenance and repair and ensures safety while providing needed quality assurance to all repairs. This position leads workflow planning and is the technical specialist and responsible for analytics.

Accountabilities

• Supervises daily shop and service track flow as well as scheduled and non-scheduled maintenance.
• Maintains relationships with Transportation, MLU and help desk to identify potential problems and defines feasible solutions to meet Transportation Service Plan (TSP) requirements.
• Ensures facility maintenance and cleanliness and employees are meeting housekeeping requirements to support a safe and efficient workplace.
• Plans repair and calibration of shop equipment and tools. Maintains tool accountability within area of responsibility.
• Plans, forecasts, and executes logistics requirements to achieve efficient production results.
• Supervises managers and union employees to keep Federal Railroad Association (FRA) violations to minimum.
• Promotes safety protocol for workers, attends safety meetings, builds safety action plans.
• Maintains and services locomotives and cars to prevent unnecessary delays. Implements work order and inspection packet procedures. Provides scheduled maintenance plans to increase reliability of the CPKC fleets.
• Creates daily Manager Action Plans to meet daily production and TSP targets.
• Troubleshoots all aspects from end-to-end of a locomotive.
• Oversees technical documentation and ensures up-to-date information is available.
• Meets production and locomotive servicing targets in a cost-efficient and safe manner.
• Stays abreast of FRA regulations and ensures company compliance.
• Protects company assets in derailment situations. Uses outside equipment as infrequently as possible.
• Coordinates training of employees.
• Demonstrates operational excellence by knowing and applying the business requirements. Demonstrates customer focus and contingency planning to ensure stakeholder expectations are met.
• Understands the relevant business metrics and applies effective tactics to sustain a culture of operational effectiveness that produces teams of high performing, engaged and empowered operational leaders.
• Identifies when a rule/regulation/policy has been violated and has one-on-one accountability conversations with an individual who has not met expectations, using CPKC Candor, Aligning the Stars & KCS ABC's, and have the individual produce better results.
• Demonstrates CPKC'scommitment to being ONE TEAM - Living a Speak Up Culture - by using communication and interpersonal skills to enhance inclusion, civility, respect, innovation, safety, customer focus, teamwork within CPKC, while encouraging and enabling others to do the same.
• Defines and communicates clearly the teams roles and responsibilities; holds people accountable for accomplishing objectives; recognizes and rewards people who achieve results and deliver on performance expectations; provides pinpointed (specific & measurable) feedback on performance.
• Develops and retains a strong team of high performers; creates a challenging and rewarding work environment; organizes a diverse group of people into a cohesive team to leverage their energy, knowledge and skills; creates grassroots / localized events to train & develop others - including location-specific safety training, localized Speak Up events, regular recognition or team-building activities.
• Exemplifies CPKC Vision, Values, and Culture interactions with coworkers, business partners, customers and stakeholders.

Ideal Candidate Qualifications:

Required

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college, preferably in a job-related major field of study
• Minimum five (5) years of relevant professional experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience

Preferred

• Five (5) years of managerial experience in managing/leading union and management employees preferred
• Previous Kansas City Southern experience

Working Conditions

• Strong knowledge of mechanical operations in shop, yard and ML environment;
• Knowledge of FRA, OSHA and AAR rules;
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills including process improvement and ability to influence and recommend decisions and present recommendations;
• Business and financial acumen – big picture thinking;
• Strong interpersonal and mentoring skills; excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Shift work is an essential function of this job. Employees must have the ability and willingness to support critically important railroad operations 24 hours per day/7 days per week, working various shifts as assigned. Schedule assignments may include after-hours, weekends and holidays.

We Offer:

• Complete health and welfare benefits package
• Competitive salary
• Incentive plan
• Railroad Retirement benefits
• 401k savings
• Leave/vacation plan

EEO Statement

We value a culturally diverse workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer while providing reasonable accommodations for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

Company Overview

Canadian Pacific (CP) and Kansas City Southern (KCS) are now CPKC. As the only truly North American railway, we are making big moves! Drawing on our strong foundations and heritage, CPKC moves essential goods across our 20,000-mile network to support economic growth throughout Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. Be a part of history as we connect a continent and create exciting career opportunities across our new transnational network. Visit cpkcr.com to learn about the CPKC advantage, our purpose and culture.

In addition to a culture that allows employees to thrive, we encourage resourcefulness with an award, recognizing employees who see a problem (or opportunity), find a solution, and use whatever authority and resources are available to get a job done well - accomplishing what was previously thought could not be done.

If you want to do work that is creative and strategic, be heard, grow professionally, be valued by your employer, and know that you are making an important contribution to an essential industry, a global supply chain, and the larger economy, CPKC may be the place for you.