What are the responsibilities and job description for the Industrial Rail - Operations Supervisor position at Savage Services?
Come work with us! Savage has been designated by USA Today as a Top Workplace and also received recognition as a Military Friendly Employer and a Top Company for Women to Work For in Transportation.
Military Veterans and Reservists are encouraged to apply.
These are just a few of the benefits you can expect from working with Savage:
The successful candidate will provide on-the-ground leadership for washing and loading crews at Savage’s new state-of-the-art Portland, TX, rail facility. This supervisor will ensure the critical process area where deheeling, washing, and loading of hopper railcars takes place runs efficiently and safely.
What you’ll be doing:
Additional Information:
Military Veterans and Reservists are encouraged to apply.
These are just a few of the benefits you can expect from working with Savage:
- Opportunities for Growth
- Annual bonus
- Paid Holidays
- Profit Sharing
- Excellent benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) with match
- We provide Uniforms & PPE (laundering included)
The successful candidate will provide on-the-ground leadership for washing and loading crews at Savage’s new state-of-the-art Portland, TX, rail facility. This supervisor will ensure the critical process area where deheeling, washing, and loading of hopper railcars takes place runs efficiently and safely.
What you’ll be doing:
- Actively supervise and instruct in all activities in railcar washing and loading areas including:
- Detailed inspection of railcars before loading to ensure cars are in good order, safe switching and indexing of railcars within structures, accurate loading of correct products as documented in Customer systems and in communication with Customer operators in plant, accurate sampling of products in correlation with loads, reconciliation and tracking of all activities
- Use loading management software to ensure that all railcars that enter, exit, or load within the process area are accurately documented
- Oversee safe execution of rail movements and switch lists based on day-to-day needs and changes
- Proactively predict logistics difficulties, use problem-solving skills to actively prevent logistics difficulties before they happen, frequently communicate with Customer plant operators to ensure paring of loading activities with plant production
- Drive overall quality control and product control between two Customer partners, actively foresee and manage needs for the correct volume, type, and owner of railcars to meet production needs which will change from day to day
- Detailed understanding of the needs of rail movements and mechanical reliability in order to provide a continual stream of cars to the loading area
- Self-starter, hard-working, and unafraid to step in for front-line tasks when needed
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and expectations, supervise and instruct Team Members who may be performing separate tasks at once, communicate detailed instructions and patiently repeat instructions in order for them to be performed correctly,
- Safety leader in areas with heavy equipment, moving railcars, and 8-10 Team Members working per shift
- Proven history of operating safely around rail movements and other heavy equipment
- Able to work a rotating 3 on - 4 off, 4 on – 3 off, 24-hour day-time schedule. This will result in holidays and weekends being on rotation as well as rotations on night shift, work with limited supervision – can accurately and efficiently keep railcar washing and loading activities progressing with limited input from the Operations Manager
- 3-5 Years’ experience in rail operations preferred
- Experience with in-plant or bulk plastics rail activities is strongly preferred
- A background taking on additional or progressive responsibilities
- High school graduate or GED equivalent required
- For safety reasons, must be able to read, write, understand, and follow written and/or verbal instructions in English
- Work will be primarily outdoors and exposed to the elements
- The ability
- Office environment located in an industrial plant
- Must be able to sit for prolonged periods of time
- May be asked to travel long distances, on occasion, for additional training or support
Additional Information:
- A complete job description is available upon request
- Savage is an Equal Opportunity Employer and maintains a drug-free workplace
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