**Description**
This position has regional responsibility for locomotive and freight car maintenance, inspection, and repair to continuously improve the availability and reliability of railroad equipment.
This position ensures that safety requirements are met and are in compliance with government and company regulations and requirements.
It requires the ability to lead and develop a workforce across a region, respond to interruptions impacting service to customers, and install a culture of continuous improvement related to safety and service to our customers
Works on a variety of issues where analysis requires evaluation of multiple factors, including business objectives and trends.
Adapts plans and priorities to address resource and operational challenges within a functional area; defines department's operating standards.
Translates the business unit's vision into plans and guides execution.
Plans and prioritizes work to meet department commitments aligned with company goals and financial responsibilities.
Manages the progress toward stated goals and execution of corporate policy.
Manages professional teams comprised of individual contributors and/or supervisors.
Participates in the interview and selection process, provides training and mentorship, offers career development guidance, and is engaged in performance management.
Provides timely and constructive coaching and feedback; develops staff and provides challenging opportunities.
Reports to a people leader at a higher career level.
Works on a variety of issues where analysis requires evaluation of multiple factors, including business objectives and trends.
Adapts plans and priorities to address resource and operational challenges within a functional area; defines department's operating standards.
Translates the business unit's vision into plans and guides execution.
Plans and prioritizes work to meet department commitments aligned with company goals and financial responsibilities.
Manages the progress toward stated goals and execution of corporate policy.
Manages professional teams comprised of individual contributors and/or supervisors.
Participates in the interview and selection process, provides training and mentorship, offers career development guidance, and is engaged in performance management.
Provides timely and constructive coaching and feedback; develops staff and provides challenging opportunities.
Reports to a people leader at a higher career level.
**Accountabilities**
- Oversees daily shop flow, and scheduled and non-scheduled maintenance.
- Leads collaboratively with other departments to meet service expectations.
- Ensures facility maintenance and cleanliness.
- Ensures commitment of government regulations and rules within the organization.
- Plans, forecasts, and executes logistics requirements to achieve efficient production results.
- Plans repairs and calibration of shop equipment and tools.
- Coordinates training of employees.
- Promotes safety protocol for workers and attends safety meetings.
- Provides direction and guidance to ensure compliance for all of Car or Locomotive Operations.
Ensures staff complies with all Federal Railroad Association (FRA), Association of American Railroads (AAR), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and KCS safety and regulatory rules.
Provides follow-up and corrective initiatives to improve compliance.
- Oversees technical documentation and ensures up-to-date information is available.
- Meets production targets efficiently and safely.
- Performs audits on all shops to achieve high productive and cost-efficient operation.
- Understands the relevant business metrics and applies effective tactics to sustain a culture of operational effectiveness that produces teams of high performing, engaged and empowered operational leaders.
- Identifies when a rule/regulation/policy has been violated and has one-on-one accountability conversations with an individual who has not met expectations, using KCS Candor, Aligning the Stars & KCS ABC's, and have the individual produce better results.
- Demonstrates KCS's commitment to being ONE TEAM - Living a Speak Up Culture - by using communication and interpersonal skills to enhance inclusion, civility, respect, innovation, safety, customer focus, teamwork within KCS, while encouraging and enabling others to do the same.
- Defines and communicates clearly the teams roles and responsibilities; holds people accountable for accomplishing objectives; recognizes and rewards people who achieve results and deliver on performance expectations; provides pinpointed (specific & measurable) feedback on performance.
- Develops and retains a strong team of high performers; creates a challenging and rewarding work environment; organizes a diverse group of people into a cohesive team to leverage their energy, knowledge and skills; creates grassroots / localized events to train & develop others - including location-specific safety training, localized Speak Up e