Manager Mechanical

Join CPKC, North America’s first transnational railroad connecting U.S., Canada, and Mexico, where your career drives progress and safety is paramount. We connect communities, fuel economic growth, and provide meaningful work in a culture that values diversity, accountability, and pride. With opportunities for training, development, and advancement, you’re not just building a career—you’re part of something bigger. Together, we move goods, connect people, and create lasting change. Your future starts here.

About the role

The Manager Mechanical is responsible for ensuring all mechanical activities are executed safely, efficiently, and in full compliance with regulatory, maintenance, and company standards. This role provides strong leadership to drive performance across safety, service reliability, productivity, and financial outcomes. The ideal candidate champions a safety-first culture, communicates with clarity and influence, and promotes a high level of accountability and continuous improvement within the team.

Responsibilities

• Develops, monitors, and communicates key performance indicators to ensure all direct and indirect reports better understand the train service business as well as the role they play.
• Accountable for the application and implementation of accident prevention initiatives and ensures compliance with company safety and accident prevention policies and procedures, regulations, and general safety principles, ensuring that subordinates carry out the safety framework activities in the local safety plan.
• Maintains communication and relationships with field operations to ensure train services meet the expectations of internal and external customers.
• Maintains communication and relationships with local union officials, including monitoring gain sharing activities as applicable.
• Accountable for implementation of lean continuous improvement recommendations to improve productivity and effectiveness of the operation. Supports Lean Philosophy and Principals.
• Ensures locomotive and car bad order repairs, cycle time, and key metrics are met.
• Leads mechanical forces at train incidents within their jurisdiction, safely handles, and efficiently restores service with minimum loss and damage to equipment, and assists Field Operations/Engineering partners.

Requirements

• High school diploma or general equivalency.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Minimum 2 years of working knowledge in railway operations (road, yard, car, mechanical) in a leadership role.
• Available to work all types of shifts, including nights, weekends, holidays, and on call.
• Ability to interact efficiently and positively with governmental and stakeholders.
• Ability to drill down, understand root cause, and resolve complex issues.
• Strong self-motivation and ability to make decisions within limits of authority.

Pre-employment requirements

• Successful pre-employment medical assessment including physical, vision, hearing, and a negative company drug test (this is a safety-sensitive position). Post-hire qualification drug testing may also be required.
• Background investigation including criminal history check, education verification, professional references, driver’s license verification and driving history, and Social Security Number verification.

Benefits

• Flexible and competitive benefits package.
• Competitive company pension and/or retirement plans.
• Employee share purchase plan.
• Performance incentive program.
• Annual fitness subsidy.
• Part-time studies program.

Pay

$100,000 to $115,000 annually.

Schedule

• Full-time, non-union position.
• 10-20% travel required.
• Available to work all types of shifts, including nights, weekends, holidays, and on call.

Location: Bensenville, Illinois, United States.