Traveling Locomotive Mechanic

Description

• Operates equipment according to company policies, procedures, and practices.
• Work with others to perform maintenance and repairs.
• Perform regular maintenance on locomotives, including QMI inspections.
• Following all safety procedures, JSA Job Safety Analysis, wearing required personal protective equipment, reporting any unsafe conditions or hazards immediately to their supervisor, taking proper training seriously, knowing and following job-related health and safety requirements, and not putting themselves or others at risk by working unsafely.
• Comply with the guidelines set forth by the FRA on Personal Blue Signal Protection of Workers.
• Ensuring locomotives are safe and compliant with regulations.
• Diagnose and repairing locomotive mechanical, electrical, air brake issues, and replacing faulty components.
• Follow lockout/tagout procedures.

Requirements

• Able to lift and carry objects weighing up to 80lbs
• Requires constant standing, walking, climbing stairs and ladders, and balancing in a safe manner
• Able to perform physical strenuous work
• Understanding and reading schematics, use multi-meter AC/DC.
• Understanding diesel engines, electrical systems, and hydraulics, and being able to read and interpret technical manuals.
• Performs duties in primarily outside environments, in and around moving locomotives, railcars, vehicles, and equipment. Frequent exposure to weather elements.
• Diagnose issues accurately and efficiently.
• Must be able to successfully pass background, drug test, and physical capacity test.
• Able to push and pull with up to 150lbs of force
• Requires frequent stooping, kneeling, and crouching

Benefits

• Voluntary life insurance, voluntary short-term disability, voluntary long term disability, voluntary accident insurance, voluntary hospital indemnity insurance
• Company paid life insurance
• Voluntary identity theft protection
• Paid time off (accrual starts day one of employment)
• Flexible spending account benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• 401K retirement savings plan
• Railroad Retirement benefits
• 8 paid holidays
• Annual tickets to My Old KY Dinner Train
• Medical, Dental, Vision insurance (immediate eligibility starting day one of employment)
• Work boot allowance
• Paid maternity leave
• Employee referral program

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance