Mechanical Locomotive Supervisor

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This is a position at Grade 9.

Job Summary

When stationed at a main terminal, the Mechanical Locomotive Supervisor is responsible to manage the day-to-day operations through unionized staff to ensure locomotive inspection, maintenance and repair work is performed safely and efficiently. The Mechanical Locomotive Supervisor may also be stationed in the Mechanical Operations Center to coordinate the routing, assembling and disassembling of locomotives for trains. Ultimately, managing the day-to-day operations of a 24/7 function, the role is critical to ensuring availability, reliability and dwell targets are met to achieve CN's commitment to its customers.

Main Responsibilities

Safety Orientation, Compliance and Enforcement

• Coach and train employees on safe and productive work procedure

• Accountable for Online Locomotive Failure Investigation and follow-up to include corrective action

• Build safety compliance and improve safety results through regular efficiency tests and safety walkabouts; provide positive and constructive to subordinates and take action on non-compliant behaviour

• Create, train, audit and enforce standard operating procedures

• Ensure safe operation as measured by accidents, incidents and employee injuries

• Support the onboarding and training activities of new employees and supervisors

• Ensure Performance Monitoring Compliance Rules (PMRC) targets, expectations, objectives are met and monitor completion and compliance accordingly

• Respond immediately and take corrective actions regarding raised safety concerns

• Ensure active involvement in Workplace Location Joint Apprentice Committee (WLJAC)

Problem Solving and Decision Making

• Maintain teamwork and order amongst staff, contractors and internal clients by acting with a sense of urgency to respond to issues as they may arise

• Use CN data to analyze locomotive inspections, repair and maintenance requirements to ensure fleet reliability

• Make final decisions on locomotive repairs and act as a subject matter expert in the repair and maintenance of locomotives

• Respond to trouble-calls for assigned region and delegate proper responses accordingly

Planning and Organizing Workload

• Ensure Mechanical Supervisors utilize workforce effectively regarding the inspection and preventative maintenance of locomotives

• Certify that repair, inspection and productivity standards are in accordance with the service plan

• Prioritize the repair of locomotives, against multiple demands, to reduce dwell times in order to increase locomotive reliability

• Drive locomotive fleet reliability by ensuring direct reports are adhering to Preventative Maintenance schedule and repairs to increase locomotive availability

• Ensure overall utilization is maximized, as measured by productivity, attendance and labour costs

General Leadership and Supervision of both Union and Non-Union Workplace

• Communicate company goals and policies to create clear understanding of direction and expectations

• Evaluate supervisor and employee performance and review performance expectations, actual performance, and overall performance ratings for reports

• Conduct investigations per collective agreement and issue discipline in collaboration with function's Leadership team

• Develop and sustain the right employee behaviours with feedback, recognition, reinforcement and coaching

• Ensure direct reports validate payroll and time off requests

• Responsible for account payable by paying and authorizing invoices

When in Tower:

• Supervise, direct and coordinate activities of workers engaged in makeup and breakup of trains and switching inbound and outbound traffic

• Assign…