Track Welder

Track Welder Job Highlights

Company Profile

CN (Canadian National Railway Company) is a transportation and logistics leader focused on supply chain innovation and collaboration. It offers integrated shipping solutions, including rail, intermodal, trucking, freight forwarding, warehousing, and distribution.

Job Profile

The company is hiring a Track Welder who will be responsible for welding and repairing steel and managing track components.

Additionally, the incumbent performs other activities, including maintaining tracks.

Educational Qualification

• Applicants should have a High School Diploma or GED equivalent
• Post-secondary Trade Education

Work Experience

• Experience and training in Mechanical
• Experience in similar working conditions
• Federal and provincial welding qualification or equivalent experience
• Operator qualifications and experience
• Valid Driver’s License, Class 3 in Quebec or equivalent in other provinces

Duties/Responsibilities

• Assist in replacing and repairing items such as power-operated switches and insulated joints
• Clean up after work completion
• Clear brush, vegetation, snow, and litter from the railroad right-of-way
• Complete work, material inventory, and inspections reports
• Comply with track safety standards, operating rules, and safe work procedures
• Correct deviations in track surface, alignment, and gauge
• Establish and maintain drainage
• Inspect track work on completion and approve the track
• Install and repair street and railroad crossings
• Maintain train operating restrictions in alignment with track standards
• Remove and replace defective ties, rail spikes, and anchors
• Sort used track material for loading, which may be loaded by hand
• Unload and assist in unloading ballasts
• Unload and distribute track material
• Use stick electrodes and Flux Cored Arc Welding (FCAW)
• Utilize high-frequency tools
• Weld and grind carbon steel and manganese track components

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Knowledge of signals or Rail Operating Rules
• Collaborates with others and shares information
• Demonstrates active listening
• Sets direction and inspires others

Working Conditions

• Ability to lift and carry up to 50 pounds (22 kg) and up to 70 pounds (32 kg) occasionally
• Ability to perform repetitive physical activities
• Ability to use various common and specialized hand tools
• Ability to work outdoors in various types of weather conditions with regular exposure to dust, pollen, noise, and vibrations
• Frog and switch welder
• Must be able to utilize a respirator for some tasks
• Must be able to work outside the headquarters location, as needed
• Must be available to work shifts, extensive hours, sometimes away from home, and occasional overtime
• Must have good eye-hand coordination and grasping

Employer’s Statement

CN is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The company considers all qualified candidates without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, or disability.