Locomotive Operator

At Freeport-Mc Mo Ran , we are committed to providing an employment package that recognizes excellence, encourages safe production and a culture supported by our core values. Here, you’ll find a collaborative environment where safety is a top priority, all opinions are valued, and people are empowered to grow in their career.

Our Miami smelter and rod plant is nestled just 90 miles east of Phoenix. The smelter processes copper concentrate primarily from our company’s Arizona copper mines and is the most significant source of sulfuric acid for our North American leaching operations. Arizona’s Globe-Miami historic mining district offers natural beauty and a rich mining heritage. The Tri‑Town of Globe, Claypool and Miami offers convenient shopping locales, including Walmart, Safeway, Fry’s and other local stores.

Here, our employees and their families can connect with the outdoors and enjoy the family‑friendly atmosphere. Visit  to learn more.

Safely perform duties related to the operation and minor maintenance of locomotive equipment and railroad tracks at a skilled level.

• In this role, you are responsible for the knowledge and safe performance of procedures for working on or near railroad tracks, including the use of chains and slings and inspecting them for defects, crossing from one side of a train to the other, Blue Stake procedures, reading blueprints for proper building of switches, and illustrating standard crane signals.
• As the Locomotive Operator I, you perform track inspections, general track work, flagging trains, opening and closing boxcars, and re‑railing cars after train derailments, and may perform minor track maintenance duties such as lubricating switches and using track wrenches and pneumatic tools to tighten nuts and bolts on railroad tracks.
• You may load, unload, and transport materials and perform duties that include building track panels, handling and laying track sections, operating ballast regulators, performing ballast train dumping operations, operating spot tampers, track maintainers, and crane cars, and operating track drills, track saws, truck‑mounted hoists, backhoes, hi‑rail trucks, boom trucks, forklifts, and hydraulic front‑end loaders.
• You may also perform brakeman and switchman duties, including handling, coupling, and uncoupling acid, freight, and concentrate railcars, performing railcar brake inspections, weighing and inspecting railcars, and ensuring proper and safe securing of railcars.
• You are responsible for the safe movement of freight trains and railcar switching in rail yards, providing clear hand and radio signals to locomotive operators, and demonstrating knowledge and safe performance of locomotive horn signals, riding positions, mounting and dismounting moving trains and locomotives, use of hand brakes, proper alignment of railroad track switches, hand and lantern signals, establishing car clearances, crossing over railcars, guarding or flagging vehicular railroad crossings, spotting railcars, and connecting multi‑unit locomotive air hoses.
• You may perform minor maintenance and operations support activities and perform other duties as required.

• Six (6) months of locomotive operating experience.
• Must have completed academic and practical competencies required (including Line of Progression requirements for internal employees where LOP exists) and have experience demonstrating the required aptitude, with the ability to apply knowledge and skills while passing a written assessment where required.
• Ability to understand and apply verbal and written work and safety‑related instructions and procedures in English.
• Ability to communicate in English with respect to job assignments, job procedures, and applicable safety standards.
• Knowledge of the proper use and performance of railroad track jacks.
• Knowledge of the proper use and performance of claw bars to move rails and spiking or spacing hammers to insert spikes.

No additional qualifications listed.

The estimated pay range for this role is currently $24.00 - $32.00/hour. This range reflects base salary only and does…