🔹 Prepare and negotiate cost estimates, budgets and timetables for various private and commercial projects🔹 Collaborate with employees, vendors and clients to ensure project progress, safety and material inventory🔹 Communicate and work with multiple local general contractors

🔹 Assured high reliability of locomotive and freight car fleet by monitoring quality of repairs including welding, fabrication, and calibrations to various electronic and pneumatic devices🔹 Reviewed project budgets, financial statements, service invoices, activity reports and other performance data to meet company metric goals🔹 Improved existing daily work procedures to incorporate lean engineering techniques and ensure productivity and overall efficiency🔹 Managed weekly inventory counts and organized shipping to ensure parts warehouse remained adequately stocked🔹 Managed emergency situations and line-of-road train repairs including derailments, crossing accidents, spillage, lading problems, locomotive troubles, and freight car defects🔹 Performed daily work zone safety audits to maintain safe work practices🔹 Created and reviewed environmental Emergency Response Plans and performed monthly inspections to ensure state and federal environmental compliance

🔹 Collaborated with Supervisors, General Foreman, Senior General Foreman, and Mechanical Territory Superintendent on daily tasks and productivity🔹 Effectively managed production efforts of 40 craft union employees with various trades performing scheduled and unscheduled maintenance on locomotives and rail freight cars🔹 Determined areas of improvement; oversaw reconstructive projects, repair productivity, efficiency, and safety🔹 Monitored and addressed any issues in regards to quality and performance requirements🔹 Ensured the adherence to railroad operation requirements as outlined and governed by Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and Association of American Railroads (AAR)🔹 Performed daily inspections to ensure employees were handling hazardous materials and waste in accordance with OSHA and EPA policies