Locomotive Field Technician

2 days ago

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada CN Full time

Locomotive Field Technician responsible for troubleshooting, repairs, and maintenance of locomotives, ensuring safety, quality, and reliability, with a focus on improving fleet performance and reducing dwell time.

Job Title: Locomotive Field Technician About the Role

The Locomotive Field Technician is a key member of our team, responsible for ensuring the safe and efficient operation of our locomotive fleet. This role requires a strong technical background, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.

Main Responsibilities
  • Provide technical support for locomotive shops, identifying and correcting reliability issues through data analysis and troubleshooting.
  • Establish system maintenance policies and procedures to improve reliability and availability.
  • Perform quality inspections of work performed by hourly employees to ensure it meets all CN and regulatory standards.
  • Develop and issue instructions on modification programs to improve performance.
  • Investigate locomotive and train failures to determine root causes and recommend solutions to reduce dwell time.
  • Coach employees on how to install, maintain, and troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, and onboard technology systems on locomotives.
  • Act as the main mechanical technical resource for the locomotive shops, covering mechanical, electrical, and onboard technology.
  • Interact with suppliers and original equipment manufacturers (OEM) on product specifications, product changes, technical issues, warranties, and modification programs.
Onboard Technology Support
  • Provide technical support for all locomotive onboard technology repairs and/or issues.
  • Coach hourly installers during onboard technology pilot/prototype installations.
  • Guide hourly employees on how to install, maintain, and troubleshoot onboard technologies, including Positive Train Control.
  • Perform lab integration end-to-end testing (LIFE), field integration testing (FT), and field qualification testing (FTQ) in both lab and field environments.
Improve Locomotive Fleet Performance
  • Perform root cause analysis for major delay events.
  • Develop proper work scopes to repair components that cause repeat issues for same or different symptoms, and work with OEMs to support the shops.
  • Own mean time to failure for scheduled and unscheduled work, and support shop operations to reduce potential misses on root causes for loco failures.
  • Perform triage process for inbound line up to reduce dwell for both scheduled and unscheduled work by using remote diagnostic tools.
Working Conditions

The Locomotive Field Technician must be available to travel to locations needing assistance, including weekend, afternoon, and/or night shifts.

Requirements Experience
  • Minimum 2 years of railway operations experience, and/or working with heavy rail equipment.
  • Experience with Wabtec I-ETMS, locomotive electrical systems, and/or industrial automation equipment.
  • Experience with networks, radio communication, and cellular communications.
  • Experience developing modifications to locomotive electrical, pneumatic, and electrical systems and producing comprehensive instructions.
Education/Certification/Designation
  • High School Diploma or General Educational Development (GED).
  • Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering degree, Mechanical or Electronics Technician diploma.
  • Valid Driver's Licence.
  • Valid passport and ability to legally enter US and Canada.
General Skills and Competencies
  • Follows safety procedures, information security instructions, and ESC principles to lead by example.
  • Project and time management.
  • Collaboration: build and maintains an internal network to support a better overall work experience.
  • Make informed and timely decisions to succeed.
  • Apply analytical thinking to make recommendations that pursue sustainable performance.
  • Must demonstrate logistical thinking, critical thinking, and multitasking.
Technical Skills/Knowledge
  • Strong knowledge of computer systems, both mainframe and PC.
  • Extensive knowledge of locomotive trucks and their components as demonstrated by prior employment position/roles/training.
  • Demonstrable knowledge on locomotive air brake and mechanical systems.
  • Strong computer skills and an understanding of SAP, the Microsoft Suite (including Office, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), and UNIX operating systems.
  • Ability to perform analysis on logs from various sub-systems, including I-ETMS, Locotrol, LCS/RCL, CCA/SDIS, FIRE/EM2000, and correlating to event recorder and PTC logs when performing root cause analysis.
  • Provide expertise on locomotive mechanical, electrical, and technology systems.
  • Basic understanding on locomotive operating systems, i.e. OEM EMD and GE Control Systems, both 26L, and EAB type airbrake systems, Locotrol, Trip Optimizer, etc.
  • Basic programming skills using Python, SQL, Java, PHP, C++, and HTML.
About CN

CN is a world-class transportation leader and trade-enabler, committed to programs supporting social responsibility and environmental stewardship. We work as ONE TEAM, focused on safety, sustainability, and our customers, providing operational and supply chain excellence to deliver results.

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