What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Manager Mechanical position at CPKC?
Posting Start Date: 10/13/26
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.
POSITION ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Medical and Drug Testing
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.
Background Investigation
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.
Management Conductor Program:
Becoming a qualified conductor or locomotive engineer is the single best way for a management employee to learn the business at CPKC. You may be required to obtain a certification or to maintain your current certification/qualification as a conductor or locomotive engineer.
CULTURE OF INCLUSION:
For our U.S. applicants, CPKC is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, inclusive of protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For Canadian applicants CPKC is an employment equity employer committed to the principles of employment equity and inclusion. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply including: women, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), members of the LGBTQ community and people with disabilities. Accommodations for the job application process can be provide, as appropriate, upon request. All applicant information will be managed in accordance with the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).
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.
POSITION ACCOUNTABILITIES:
- 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
- High school diploma or general equivalency
- Minimum 10 years of working knowledge in railway operations (road, yard, locomotive, mechanical)
- Valid driver’s license
- 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
- 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
Medical and Drug Testing
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.
Background Investigation
- Criminal history check
- Education verification
- Professional references
- Driver’s license verification and driving history
- 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.
Management Conductor Program:
Becoming a qualified conductor or locomotive engineer is the single best way for a management employee to learn the business at CPKC. You may be required to obtain a certification or to maintain your current certification/qualification as a conductor or locomotive engineer.
CULTURE OF INCLUSION:
For our U.S. applicants, CPKC is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, inclusive of protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For Canadian applicants CPKC is an employment equity employer committed to the principles of employment equity and inclusion. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply including: women, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), members of the LGBTQ community and people with disabilities. Accommodations for the job application process can be provide, as appropriate, upon request. All applicant information will be managed in accordance with the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).
- Req ID: 106592
- Department: Mechanical Car
- Job Type: Full-Time
- Position Type: Non-Union
- Location: Shreveport, Louisiana
- Country: United States
- % of Travel: 10-20%
- # of Positions: 1
- Job Grade: 3
- Compensation Rate:
- Job Available to: Internal & External