Steven Pearson Email & Phone Number

Weatherford, TX, US

Dallas, Texas, United States

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Lead the on-time execution of a transportation plan and maximize operations, ensuring efficient, safe car handling and on-time departures, increase productivity, and reduce operating expenses.
• Identify, recommend, and implement action plans to meet the operating requirements for the assigned territory and improve the operating ratio.
• Direct asset utilization and effectively manage operational resources to maximize capacity for the assigned territory.
• Control spend and pursue efficiencies to achieve budgetary compliance.
• Continually assess safety performance, initiating tactical and strategic safety improvement actions while building and reinforcing a safety culture.
• Managed, coached, and developed employees, conducting timely evaluations and training through a field training program.

Oakland, CA/Fort Worth, TX

• Created industrial efficiency in the bowl classification, yard matrix, and hump process to increase capacity and production.
• Utilized systems, service design, terminal packets, and critical measures to plan and control capacity and production and proactively divided labor resources as needed.

• Achieved a daily transportation plan by working collaboratively with internal departments to coordinate train movement and locomotive/car availability to exceed quality service objectives.
• Conducted field training exercises for train service employees and remote-control operators to confirm compliance with all safety rules and regulations.
• Managed labor expenses within assigned budgetary limits in line with the volume of business to control costs associated with car movement, supplies, and labor.
• Built and maintain professional, cross-functional relationships with internal/external customers, other railroads, local state and federal regulatory agencies, centralized functions, and other service units to meet.
• Led, coached, developed, and engaged transportation managers and agreement employees to drive individual performance and employee involvement activities.
• Conducted detailed investigations and scene assessments on safety incidents as a first responder.

• Oversaw the safety plan for an assigned territory and led the terminal transportation plan, ensuring all business objectives were met on time and within budget.
• Managed train service expenses within the assigned budgetary limits, including workforce management, and coordinating and planned daily activities with various internal departments to ensure operational effectiveness.
• Maintained open lines of communication with the executive leadership team regularly to address critical business needs.
• Coached and developed employees to drive performance improvements and implemented corrective action plans as needed.