Apprentice Diesel Mechanic

Overview

Join a team of Apprentice Diesel Mechanics who have been repairing a fleet of locomotives with Union Pacific for over 150 years. Apprentices inspect, diagnose issues, repair, and maintain the engine and mechanical components of diesel-electric locomotives, while working in and around locomotive shops. We are powered by our people, will you join our team?

• Conduct job briefings to ensure safe and effective coordination of activities and keep assigned work areas, tools, and equipment clean and in proper working order
• Repair, replace, or rebuild locomotive and diesel engine components as needed
• Develop and maintain positive working relationships with coworkers, supervisors, contractors and/or customers and effectively handle controversy
• Prepare equipment and materials as needed, and efficiently operate the equipment including: measuring instruments (micrometers, tape measures, dial calipers); precision machines (drill and punch presses bench lathes); hand tools (drills, wrenches, grinders); and material handling equipment
• Diagnose diesel engine, air compressor, and other locomotive mechanical system malfunctions
• Communicate technical information, job briefing information, job procedure recommendations, and other work-related information through writing, in-person interaction, telephone, radio, and intercom
• Perform other duties as assigned
• Read, interpret, understand, and find written or electronic information from diagrams, schematics, blueprints, graphs, and charts, and input information as needed into a computer
• Inspect and service the diesel locomotive fleet in compliance with company, federal and industry standards

• Basic keyboarding skills
• Ability to use both low precision (tape measure, hand level) and high precision (caliper, electronic scale) instruments to obtain accurate measurements
• Valid driver s license
• Able to effectively work independently and in group settings
• Proficient verbal and written communication skills to deliver information to coworkers and supervisors
• Able to extract relevant information from tables, charts, graphs, and text
• Able to perform basic arithmetic operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and conversion of fractions into decimals and decimals into fractions to solve practical problems
• Able to take initiative and take responsibility for the timely and quality completion of tasks; open to change
• Able to understand and apply basic mechanical principles to solve mechanical problems
• Experience reading and understanding instructions (examples may include operating and safety rules, bulletins, special instructions, and federal regulatory documents)