What are the responsibilities and job description for the Transportation Manager position at Florida East Coast Railway?
Directs and coordinates activities of workers engaged in makeup and break-up of trains and switching inbound and outbound traffic of rail-road yard by performing the following duties personally or through sub-ordinate supervisors.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Reviews train schedules and switching orders, and observes traffic move-ment in yard to determine which tracks can be made available to ac-commodate inbound and outbound traffic.
- Directs routing of inbound and outbound traffic to specific tracks.
- Reviews waybills or other shipping records indicating material to be load-ed or unloaded, tonnage of cargo, type of carrier, and planned routes.
- Provides instruction concerning switching of cars, makeup and breakup of trains, and routing of inbound and outbound traffic to ensure safe and efficient conduct of yard activities.
- Directly supervises varying numbers of train service employees as-sign-ed to yard crews as well as through freight and/or local crews oper-at-ing into and out of the terminal/yard.
- Carries out supervisory re-spon-si-bilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and ap-pli-cable laws.
- Responsi-bilities include training employees; planning, as-signing, and directing work; apprais-ing performance; addressing com-plaints and re-solving problems.
- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
- The requirements listed be-low are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
- Rea-son-able accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Minimum of two years’ college education, or equivalent from two‑year col-lege or technical school, in related transportation fields preferred but may be waived; six months’ experience and/or training as a yard-mas-ter preferred but not mandatory.
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, pro-fessional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regula-tions. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and proce-dure manuals.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to ques-tions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the gen-er-al public.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, us-ing whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to com-pute rate, ratio, and percent.
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid con-clusions.
- Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical in-struc-tions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several ab-stract and concrete variables.
- Must have current driver’s license.
- Must have completed engineer’s certification program; must be familiar with federal and local regulations regarding train operations.
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential func-tions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with dis-abilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly re-quir-ed to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand. The employee is occasionally required to walk; sit; use hands to finger, han-dle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, dis-tance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the abil-ity to adjust focus.
- The work environment characteristics described here are rep-re-sentative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with dis-abil-ities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works in outside weather conditions. The employee occasionally works near mov-ing mechanical parts and in high, precarious places.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.