Superior Tie & Timber Maintenance Technician

Superior Tie & Timber Maintenance Technician Job Description Job Alerts Link Superior Tie & Timber Maintenance Technician

Join CPKC, North America’s first transnational railroad connecting the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, where your career drives progress and safety is paramount. We connect communities, fuel economic growth, and provide meaningful work in a culture that values diversity, accountability, and pride. With opportunities for training, development, and advancement, you’re not just building a career—you’re part of something bigger. Together, we move goods, connect people, and create lasting change.

Your future starts here.

As a Superior Tie & Timber(ST&T) Maintenance Technician, you’ll play an important role in keeping equipment running safely, reliably, and efficiently. In this hands‑on role, you’ll use your mechanical skills to maintain, service, and repair equipment, including performing welding and cutting work, inspecting and replacing key components such as engines, tires, and hydraulic cylinders, and servicing engines and fluids as needed.

The selected candidate will help create a safe and productive work environment by following established safety procedures and supporting the well‑being of fellow team members, plant workers, and equipment operators.

• Maintain, service, and repair equipment to support safe, reliable, and efficient operations
• Use welding and cutting tools to complete equipment repairs and maintenance
• Inspect and replace key equipment components, including engines, tires, hydraulic cylinders, and related parts
• Service engines and exchange equipment fluids as required
• Follow established safety procedures to maintain a safe work environment for yourself, plant workers, and equipment operators
• Assume Maintenance Supervisor duties when required
• Demonstrate CPKC’s Vision, Values, and Culture in every interaction with team members, clients, and stakeholders

• High school diploma or general equivalency diploma (GED)
• Valid driver’s license
• Mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic experience is considered an asset
• Working knowledge of rail, other track material (OTM), switches, and bridge materials, with the ability to sort, stack, store, and handle materials appropriately
• Basic computer skills and working knowledge of warehouse and/or heavy construction equipment
• Knowledge of safe work practices and procedures

• Flexible and competitive benefits package
• Competitive company pension and/or retirement plans
• Employee share purchase plan
• Performance incentive plan
• Annual fitness subsidy
• Part-time studies program

This is a safety-sensitive position and a successful pre-employment medical assessment, including physical, vision, hearing, and a negative company drug test, is required. Post-hire qualification drug testing may also be required.

• Criminal history check
• Education verification
• Professional references
• Driver’s license verification and driving history
• Passport verification
• Department of Transportation Background Check 40.25 Form
• Social Security Number verification

As an employee with a North American presence, the possibility does exist that the location of your position may be changed based on organizational requirements.

Becoming a qualified conductor or locomotive engineer is the single best way for a management employee to learn the business  may be required to obtain a certification or to maintain your current certification/qualification as a conductor or locomotive engineer.

For our U.S. applicants, CPKC is an equal opportunity/affirmative…