**Description**
This job is responsible for the maintenance, scheduled repair, and unscheduled repair of KCSR / KCSM locomotive fleet to ensure locomotives are safely maintained in a quality and cost effective manner. This position is responsible for responding and managing locomotive service interruptions within the terminal and on mainline, and managing special projects in support of locomotive operations; day to day personnel management; executing mechanical objectives to support shop and terminal production goals, and ensuring all work is being performed within company guidelines, ensuring work scopes and periodic inspections are completed per OEM / KCSM standards, safety rules, and SCT, FRA, and AAR standards.
**Accountabilities**
- Manages the safety plan for SLP Locomotive facility.
- Manages locomotive operations including; shop, terminal, service track and line of road operations.
- Monitors safety, quality and production performance in shop, terminal and service track.
- Communicates with appropriate parties of all aspects of shop, terminal and service track capacity, daily plan and shift turnover documentation to ensure plan execution (conference calls, schedule adjustments, staging plans, terminal interaction, inspection and other duties as assigned.
- Manages locomotive shop dwell, locomotive reliability, and locomotive availability to KCS standards.
- Works with transportation team to develop operation plan and ensure all SLA are met meet train schedule compliance.
- Audits equipment reports daily, and inspect equipment on a regular basis to ensure compliance.
- Ensures compliance with KCS RR and equal employment policies, safety and operating rules, schedule agreements, attendance guidelines, and Government regulations.
- Exemplifies KCS Vision, Values, and Culture in each and every interaction with team, clients, and stakeholders.
**Required**
- High School diploma or equivalent
- Minimum two (2) years of relevant operations experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience
**Preferred**
- 1 year proven managerial experience in managing/leading union and management employees
- Previous Kansas City Southern experience
**Working Conditions**
- Shift work is an essential function of this job. Employees must have the ability and willingness to support critically important railroad operations 24 hours per day/7 days per week, working various shifts as assigned. Schedule assignments may include after-hours, weekends and holidays.
**We Offer**:
- Complete health and welfare benefits package
- Competitive salary
- Incentive plan
- Vacation plan
**EEO Statement**
We value a culturally diverse workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer while providing reasonable accommodations for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.
**Company Overview**
In 1887, Arthur Stilwell constructed a north-south railroad while others were heading east and west, setting the tone for a century-old legacy of outstanding vision; entrepreneurial spirit; resilience in the face of adversity; and, willingness to challenge conventional wisdom. Building on that legacy, our culture is further defined by a new vision for the future and a core set of values - Safety, Customer Focus, Communication, Teamwork, Initiative & Innovation, and Diversity & Civility. We believe that the way we do business is as important as the business we do.
In addition to a culture that allows employees to thrive, we encourage resourcefulness with an award, recognizing employees who see a problem (or opportunity), find a solution, and use whatever authority and resources are available to get a job done well - accomplishing what was previously thought could not be done.
If you want to do work that is creative and strategic, be heard, grow professionally, be valued by your employer, and know that you are making an important contribution to an essential industry, a global supply chain, and the larger economy, Kansas City Southern may be the place for you.
The talent selection process for vacant positions at Kansas City Southern de México, S.A. de C.V. (KSCM) is governed by the principles established in its Labor Equality and Non-Discrimination Policy, in accordance with the provisions of section III of Article 1 of the Federal Law to Prevent and Eliminate Discrimination (LFPED), and applies to applicants internal and / or external alike. In addition, KCSM does not request clinical tests and / or desk tests from applicants as part of the decision-making process during selection
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