Manager, Car Reliability

Canadian National Railway - Homewood, IL

Full-time - Manager

Homewood, IL

Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods

About the position

The Manager, Car Reliability is responsible for the strategic decision-making regarding the long-term maintenance plan for CN's freight car fleet. This role involves designing maintenance actions to address issues during both scheduled and unscheduled events, optimizing the reliability of freight cars, and ensuring alignment between the Car Reliability team and stakeholders. The position focuses on continuous improvement of fleet health, including performance analysis and preventative maintenance strategies.

Responsibilities

• Establish and improve fleet strategy through data analysis and reporting visibility for CN freight, foreign, and private cars.
• Propose and execute strategies to improve trending and prediction of top failure modes and components within freight car fleets.
• Analyze performance statistics to improve fleet performance and perform cost analyses to maintain corrective actions within the operational maintenance budget.
• Develop performance reports to communicate overall fleet performance and trends.
• Analyze root causes for data performance alerts and define corrective action plans for alert items.
• Monitor car failures and ensure specific work scopes are created to address primary root causes and improve operational quality.
• Present strategy progress for car reliability updates and initiatives to Mechanical leaders monthly.
• Understand Return on Investment (ROI) for all proposed projects and build business plans to drive through the Authorization for Expenditure (AFE) process.
• Lead development of Mechanical work scopes in conjunction with OEMs and suppliers to identify and implement best solutions for car reliability and performance.
• Facilitate and support analysis of component usage and define improvement strategy for working with vendors and upgrades.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of railway operations experience working with cars and car components.
• Experience working on cross-functional projects and performing audits to improve mechanical freight car operational performance.
• Experience with OEMs on car design and improvement and with data analysis tools such as Tableau, Power BI, and SAP Business Warehouse (BW).
• Experience implementing safe work procedures and policies and knowledge of CN's Transportation and Mechanical departments.

Nice-to-haves

• Fluently bilingual in English and French.
• Knowledge of Software Requirements Specification (SRS) and Structured Query Language (SQL).
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).

Benefits

• Paid training