Watco is hiring a Conductor/Engineer to control and coordinate train movements at a rail yard in Kansas City, KS. The successful candidate will have a high school education or GED and be able to pass training and testing.
Requirements
- Demonstrate predictable, reliable, and timely attendance
- Follow written and verbal directions to complete assigned tasks on schedule
- Read, write, and communicate in English & understand basic math
- Learn from directions, observations, and mistakes and apply procedures using good judgment
- Supervises and coordinates the activities of train crews
- Receives oral or written instructions from Manager or Customer indicating which cars are to be switched
- Notifies engineer of switching orders and, whereby, which cars are to be moved to specified locations of yard, using radio, telephone, verbal or hand signals
- Talks to crew or other yard workers via radio to give or receive switching information
- Confers with train dispatcher via radio to issue or receive information or instructions concerning stops, delays, or oncoming trains
- Gives instructions to throw track switches and to couple and uncouple cars
- May assist workers to throw switches or perform other activities involved when performing switching operations
- Turns hand brake wheel or ratchet type brake as well as apply and release handbrakes
- Observes track to detect obstructions
- Maintains records, number, origin, destination, and cargo of cars switched
- May coordinate activities of switching crew from locomotive cab, caboose, or control tower
- Raises coupling lever to couple or uncouple cars
- Throws track switches to facilitate shunting of cars and signals Engineer to move cars, using lantern, arm signals or radio
- Connects air hose to cars when making up trains by bending and applying force
- May set warning signals, such as flares, flags, lanterns, or torpedoes at front of and at rear of train during emergency stops to warn oncoming trains
- Sits or rides in cab of locomotive to observe signals from other crew members
- May make minor repairs to couplings, and air hoses and report any equipment requiring major repairs
- May talk to Engineer via radio to give or receive switching information
- Performs other duties as requested or required
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Paid on-the-job training
- Operations training at the Safe Performance Center in Birmingham, Alabama
- Leadership and development programs offered through Watco University
- Career advancement opportunities
- Paid time off
