Sr. Manager Mechanical
About The Position
Join CPKC, North America’s first transnational railroad connecting 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. PURPOSE OF POSITION: Manager Mechanical ensures activities are performed safely and in compliance with regulatory and maintenance standards consistent with expectations of the business. Provides managerial leadership and personal development to employees for inputs and outputs of safety, service, productivity and financial metrics. The ideal candidate builds a safety focused culture, communicates effectively, and drives accountability.
Requirements
- High school diploma or general equivalency
- Valid driver’s license
- Minimum 10 years of working knowledge in railway operations (road, yard, locomotive, mechanical)
- Available to work all types of shifts, including nights, weekends holidays and on call
- Ability to interact efficiently and positively with governmental and stakeholders
- Ability to drill down, understand root cause and resolve complex issues
- Strong self-motivation and ability to make decisions within limits of authority
Responsibilities
- Ensure safe shop operations through execution of the safety scorecard and ensuring safety framework sessions are being conducted within the terminals
- Ensure effective emergency response readiness within the territory
- Provide leadership and support to managers in the field in assigned shops
- Develops and communicates appropriate staffing levels at each terminal
- Drive operational performance targets
- Drive car repair productivity through capacity utilization of repair teams
- Resolving escalations from terminals
- Validate and drive decision and escalation guideline compliance with managers
- Drive trainyard performance and ensure yard service employees are meeting train repairs daily
- Ensure train inspections are to standards and all inspections are logged
Benefits
- Flexible and competitive benefits package
- Competitive company pension and/or retirement plans
- Employee share purchase plan
- Performance incentive program
- Annual sitness subsidy
- Part-time studiespProgram
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
High school or GED
