Description
General Summary:
This position is responsible for assisting in as well as managing and directing the operations of an assigned crew in a safe, efficient, and cost-effective manner.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Knows and adheres to company policies and procedures, practices, rules, and guidelines.
- Knows and monitors safety procedures of the division.
- Develops and implements plans to clean up derailed railroad cars, engines, environmental remediation, or other projects using materials, machines, and employees efficiently.
- Supervises crews to and from job site and work at the job site, in the shop, including use of tools and equipment.
- Administers and oversees employee training, coaching, development plans, employee discipline programs and collective bargaining agreements.
- Assigns and delegates duties to employees, inspects work to ensure it meets or exceeds standards and supervises cleaning of equipment.
- Schedules and implements maintenance and repair of field equipment and division facility.
- Schedules and coordinates with division personnel in order to meet customer demands; ensures jobs can be back filled with trained personnel as needed.
- Assists in hiring, training, supervising, evaluating performance and counseling division staff. Ensures proper orientation of staff into the organization.
- Ensures timely information flow to managers and corporate office and completion of administrative requirements.
- Assists Division Manager in developing and executing policies and procedures.
- Develops business relationships and interfaces with Sales and Marketing Department, participating in activities to expand business opportunities.
- Assists with the analysis, computation, and presentation of bids.
- Performs other incidental and related duties as required.
Requirements
Educational and Certification/Licensure Requirements:
- High School or equivalent
- Associate degree or equivalent experience preferred.
- CDL Class A valid driver's license.
- Extensive knowledge of the State permits requirements and procedures.
Experience Requirements:
- One or more years related experience in the supervision of heavy mechanical equipment and field operations, including administrative, wrecking/derailment or environmental remediation, mechanical, safety and leadership experience in the railroad or environmental industry.
- One or more years experience operating heavy mechanical equipment preferred.
Knowledge/ Skills:
- Basic ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables and work with mathematical concepts.
- Intermediate ability to effectively communicate technical information to all types of people, both verbally and in writing
- Good communication, decision-making, analytical, problem solving and interpersonal skills.
- Knowledge of railcar derailment operations, railcar loading and tie down operations, heavy equipment operation and maintenance and DOT drivers logs, and compliance.
Travel:
- Subject to long, irregular hours and 24-hour on-call availability.
- Must be able to travel 75% of the time.
- Driving for extended periods.
- Call 24/7 unless on scheduled for time off.