Assistant Trainmaster

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Assist the Trainmaster with the daily supervision of train, engine, and yard crews. Promote and enforce compliance with railroad operating rules, safety procedures, and federal regulations. Conduct field observations, efficiency tests, job briefings, safety audits, and operational rule checks. Investigate and document incidents, injuries, rule violations, service interruptions, and equipment-related events; help implement corrective actions. Monitor train movement, yard activity, crew availability, track conditions, and local operating conditions to support efficient service. Coordinate with dispatchers, mechanical teams, engineering, customer-service personnel, terminal managers, and other departments to resolve operational issues. Support train handling, crew management, switching operations, blocking, train make-up, and terminal fluidity initiatives. Assist with responding to derailments, hazardous-material incidents, grade-crossing events, weather disruptions, and other emergencies. Ensure train crews receive required information regarding operating conditions, bulletins, slow orders, track outages, work authorities, and safety hazards. Review crew performance and provide coaching, guidance, and corrective feedback. Maintain complete and accurate operating records, reports, safety documentation, attendance records, investigation files, and performance data. Support staffing, crew-call, transportation planning, and overtime-management activities as assigned. Participate in safety meetings, operating reviews, employee training, and continuous-improvement programs. Serve as acting Trainmaster or assume other transportation leadership duties when assigned.

Qualifications: High school diploma or GED required. Prior railroad operating experience, typically including experience as a conductor, engineer, yardmaster, dispatcher, or comparable transportation operations role. Working knowledge of railroad safety rules, operating rules, train operations, switching procedures, air-brake practices, and crew responsibilities. Ability to interpret operating instructions, timetables, general orders, bulletins, track warrants, work authorities, and relevant railroad documentation. Demonstrated ability to lead employees, make operational decisions, and address issues fairly and professionally. Strong written and verbal communication skills. Proficiency with computers, mobile devices, reporting systems, and standard business software. Valid driver's license and ability to operate company vehicles safely. Ability to meet all applicable medical, background-check, drug-and-alcohol testing, and physical qualification requirements.

Preferred Qualifications: Prior supervisory, lead-worker, military leadership, or transportation-management experience. Experience in terminal operations, road operations, intermodal service, bulk commodities, passenger rail, or short-line railroad environments. Familiarity with Federal Railroad Administration requirements and railroad labor agreements. Experience conducting investigations, documenting rule compliance, or delivering safety training. Railroad rules certification or qualification as a conductor and/or locomotive engineer.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Strong commitment to a safety-first operating culture. Ability to remain calm, decisive, and professional under pressure. Sound judgment in time-sensitive and changing operating conditions. Ability to build productive working relationships with represented employees, peers, leadership, and outside agencies. Strong organizational skills and attention to detail. Ability to analyze operating data, identify delays or inefficiencies, and recommend practical improvements. Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining accurate records and clear communication. Ability to coach employees constructively while consistently enforcing company expectations.

Working Conditions: Work is performed in offices, rail yards, terminals, locomotives, crew facilities, and along rail lines. Regular exposure to outdoor weather conditions, noise, uneven surfaces, moving equipment, and other railroad operating hazards. Schedule may include nights, weekends, holidays, extended shifts, and on-call availability. Frequent travel within the assigned territory may be required. Must be able to walk on uneven ballast, climb steps and ladders, work around moving rail equipment, and safely perform duties in accordance with company physical requirements.

Reporting Relationship: Reports to the Trainmaster and Manager of operations. ASARCO LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Candidates must possess a current and valid driver's license. Offers of employment are contingent upon a successful criminal background check and pre-employment physical including a drug screen (hair analysis).