Conductor​/Engineer - CLCR

Description Primary Activities and Responsibilities - Conductor

• Ensure compliance with all train orders, signals, and railroad rules and regulations for safety, operations, and the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA).
• Review instructions from dispatchers and yardmasters, and discuss with locomotive engineer and train crew.
• Inspect all equipment on cars prior to departures.
• Receive and transmit information by radio and telephone.
• Read and understand bulletins, work orders, and switch lists.
• Assist and instruct train crews to couple and uncouple cars, operate switches, and make minor repairs to railcars, including replacing heavy couplings or air brake hoses.
• Work with customers to ensure accurate movement and placement of cars.
• Maintain awareness of surrounding area and suspicious activity to ensure rail safety.
• Comprehend color and/or hand signals and systems.
• Quickly and repeatedly make precise adjustments in moving the controls of a machine or vehicle to exact positions.
• Quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to visual symbols, signals and displays (sound, light, picture, etc.).

• Responsible for keeping the track and track bed in good shape. That means checking for broken rails, defective switches, deteriorating track bed, track obstructions and weather-related problems.
• Perform tasks associated with track work including but not limited to, pulling and driving spikes, replacing ties, surfacing track, changing rail, bars, bolts, shoveling rock ballast and working with other track apparatus.
• Must be willing to learn and apply FRA Track Safety Standards, GCOR and RWP regulations and be able to perform maintenance in a timely manner.
• Must be willing to learn to operate in a safe and efficient manner, all equipment and tools associated with track maintenance; will be responsible for maintenance of equipment associated with track maintenance such as track-wrench, etc.
• Remove and replace ballast, operate large non-powered hand tools such as shovels, picks, axes, cutters, and sledgehammers, and operate proper electric, pneumatic, or hydraulic hand tools such as drills, impact wrenches, jacks, power saws, and grinders.
• Maintain accurate records of time worked, track conditions encountered and corrective action taken.
• May be required to assist in working on train cars as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Responsible for safe and efficient operation of the locomotive.
• Operation of locomotive, which requires full mobility in seated position facing forward and to the side.
• Requires the manipulation of throttle and brake controls as well as interpreting gauges and controls.
• Must be able to manipulate valves and switches both inside and outside of the cab.
• Applies and releases handbrakes.
• Ascends and descends steps and ladders to get on and off the equipment.
• Takes directions from conductors and brakemen.
• Line switches.
• Coupling cars.
• Working on freight trains.
• Laces air hoses.
• Services the locomotive (brake shoes, oil, sand and fuel).
• Other duties as assigned, as requested or required.
• Must report to work as called on a 24-hour schedule.
• Must comply with all new and outstanding railroad instructions regarding the operation of the train.
• Must comply with all federal regulations regarding the operation of the train air brakes.
• Assist the Locomotive Engineer in the management of the train and daily work.
• Work Safely and Efficiently.
• Completes work as directed by supervisors.
• Must pass all job and health related examinations.
• Perform switching, make-up and break-up trains.
• Perform ground tasks of coupling and uncoupling cars, operating switches, etc.
• Maintain accurate records of cars handled, repairs performed, and track conditions encountered.
• Communication with management, customer service, crew members, and connecting railroads.

• Verifiable High School diploma/GED or equivalent experience.
• 18 years of age or older.
• Valid Driver's License.
• 2 years verifiable work experience and/or college.
• No driving violations involving alcohol or drugs within the past 3 years.
• Ability to communicate both orally and in writing, with internal and external management.

• Prior rail industry experience.
• Current Certified Engineer or Conductor status a plus.
• Outside work experience.
• Experience working on an on-call basis.
• Experience working varying shift schedules.
• Experience operating heavy equipment.
• Mechanical experience.

• Medium to heavy work, lifting up to 50 pounds occasionally and up to 80 pounds.
• Reach/handle/finger/feel.
• Stoop/bend/kneel/crouch/crawl/balance/climb.
• Work in cramped, confined, enclosed, or awkward places.
• Ride on the outside of rail equipment for long periods of time.
• Walk long distances over uneven terrain.
• Demonstrate auditory and visual acuity/tracking/inspection.
• Must meet color vision requirements as described in the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Regulations.