2024 Track Laborer - Alliance, OH
Norfolk Southern
- Alliance, OH
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Carry and place track materials using hand tools such as tie tongs, rail tongs, rail forks, lining bars, shovels, and jacks.
- Attach the rail to ties using spike mauls or spike drivers.
- Remove spikes with claw bars, spike lifters, and spike pullers.
- Lift, position, handle, remove and install railroad crossties in and around the track structure.
- Connect and disconnect rail using the track, impact, power wrenches, or welding materials.
- Move, clean, and tamp ballast (crushed stone-like material) with shovels, clay picks, lining bars, and ballast forks.
- Raise tracks, turnouts, crossings, and rails with track or power jacks.
- Cut associated materials with oxygen-propane torches, rail saws, cut-off saws, and cold chisels.
- Drill holes with gasoline, pneumatic, hydraulic, and electric drill motors.
- Work alongside heavy equipment by connecting, disconnecting, and controlling material that is being moved and by directing such movement.
- Participate in safety meetings.
- Wear all appropriate personal protective equipment.
- Must have either a High School Diploma or GED
- Must be 18 years of age or older.
- Must have a valid Driver's License
- Capable of lifting and carrying a minimum of 75 pounds.
- Willing and able to travel to various job sites, including those that require overnight stays and those that require short notice mobilization.
- Capable of working in inclement weather and/or conditions.
- Capable of covering distances afoot up to five (5) miles per day, on railroad right of way, negotiating steep grades and rough terrain, without assistance.
- Capable of working unsupervised at times.
- Interact effectively as a crew member.
- Understand and follow verbal and visual communications.
- Understand and respond to audible visual signals and warnings.
- Quickly learn and perform job duties.
- Recognize, avoid, and report potential hazards.