Locomotive Operator I

About the role

At Freeport-McMoRan, you'll find a collaborative environment focused on safety, where your career grows through empowerment and a rich mining heritage.

Responsibilities

• Safely perform duties related to the operation and minor maintenance of locomotive equipment and railroad tracks at a skilled level.
• Inspect and cross from one side of a train to the other, read blueprints for proper building of switches, and illustrate standard crane signals.
• Load, unload, and transport materials, operate various machinery including ballast regulators, spot tampers, track maintainers, and crane cars, and operate track drills, track saws, truck-mounted hoists, backhoes, hi-rail trucks, boom trucks, forklifts, and hydraulic front-end loaders.
• Perform minor maintenance and operations support activities, and perform other duties as required.
• Perform brakeman and switchman duties, including handling, coupling, and uncoupling railcars, performing railcar brake inspections, weighing and inspecting railcars, and ensuring proper and safe securing of railcars.
• Maintain and demonstrate knowledge of proper use and performance of railroad track jacks, claw bars, and spiking or spacing hammers.

Requirements

• Six (6) months of locomotive operating experience.
• Completed academic and practical competencies required (including Line of Progression requirements for internal employees where LOP exists).
• Able to understand and apply verbal and written work and safety-related instructions and procedures in English.
• Able to communicate in English with respect to job assignments, job procedures, and applicable safety standards.
• Knowledge of the proper use and performance of railroad track jacks.
• Knowledge of the proper use and performance of claw bars to move rails and spiking or spacing hammers to insert spikes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to understand and apply verbal and written work and safety-related instructions and procedures in English.
• Able to communicate in English with respect to job assignments, job procedures, and applicable safety standards.
• Knowledge of the proper use and performance of railroad track jacks.
• Knowledge of the proper use and performance of claw bars to move rails and spiking or spacing hammers to insert spikes.