Primary Function: Manages the maintenance and repair of all locomotive power units, assures that those responsible are maintaining their locomotives properly. Prepares budget and keeps spending in control for spare parts and equipment. Trains mechanical specialists and others as needed.
Principle Responsibilities
- Responsible for all maintenance, repair, and inspections of locomotives and railcars
- Prepares and properly forecasts the work to be done
- Assures best price on materials used
- Keeps adequate but controlled parts inventory
- Prepares budget and measures performance to budget
- Assures repairs are completed properly
- Arranges to have mandatory 92 day, annual, and tri-annual inspections complete so as not to negatively affect operations
- Assure safe performance of department and the railroad
- Maintains a safe, orderly, and clean workplace
- Participates in and provides support for derailments and investigations of incidents/accidents
- Audits team members for safe practices
- Uses effective corrective action to correct unsafe conditions/behaviors
- Responsible for ensuring adherence to FRA and AAR rules and standards
- Assures work scope is high quality, Measures quality of work performed
- Provides feedback on quality of work done
- Works to improve product and process to enhance quality levels
- Uses effective corrective action to improve/correct poor quality
- Assure productivity/efficiency of mechanical department
- Achieves forecasted levels of work to be done
- Effectively schedules team members
- Provides data and measures of productivity of department
- Follows up to improve productivity where not meeting goals
- Works on continuous improvement of process
- Organization Support
- Maintains good internal relationships and communications
- Follows policies and procedures
- Completes administrative tasks correctly and on time
- Prepares and presents required reports as instructed
- Supports organizations goals and values
- Represents BBRR positively in the community
- Managing People
- Provides direction and gains compliance
- Includes subordinates in planning
- Takes responsibility for subordinates’ activities
- Makes self available to subordinates
- Provides regular performance feedback
Required Skills and Experience
- Minimum of 10 years’ experience in mechanical/electrical/hydraulic and pneumatic maintenance and repair.
- Minimum of 4 years’ experience in management/ leading personnel.
- Minimum of 5 years locomotive experience, troubleshooting, print reading.
- Analysis experience.
- Able to make decisions quickly and correctly.
Supervisory Responsibility
Work Environment
- This job operates in a professional office environment, a shop environment, and out on the railroad. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.
Physical Demands
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; and reach with hands and arms.
- The employee is occasionally required to sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
- The employee must frequently lift and move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and move, push, or pull objects up to 100 pounds.
- Will be required to visit work sites and have the ability to walk on ballast, climb on equipment, and ride or drive for long periods of time.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Required Education
- High school diploma or GED required. Associates Degree or higher preferred. Mechanical or technical schooling is desirable.
Travel
- Occasional Travel to VA Beach- will include per diem
Schedule
- M-F 7am to 3pm and call outs
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
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