Manager Production (Locomotive)

Join CPKC, North America’s first transnational railroad connecting U.S. Canada and Mexico, where your career drives progress and safety is paramount. We connect communities, fuel economic growth, and provide meaningful work in a culture that values diversity, accountability, and pride. With opportunities for training, development, and advancement, you’re not just building a career—you’re part of something bigger. Together, we move goods, connect people, and create lasting change. Your future starts here.

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

As the Production Manager you will be leading a team with varied strengths of locomotive maintenance professionals daily covering all aspects of planning, scheduling, assignment of work within a locomotive maintenance environment, ensuring that all maintenance production performed safely and in compliance with regulatory and maintenance standards consistent with expectations of the business. The ideal candidate builds a safety focused culture, communicates efficiently, and drives accountability.

POSITION ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Support front line mechanical supervisors on the planning and execution maintenance and repair activities, hold supervisors and craft accountable to daily production targets
• Accountable for continuity of production shift over shift
• Support, communicate and deliver to key performance indicators. Drills down to get to the root cause of business issues to ensure all direct reports have an understanding of the business objectives, as well as the role they are all accountable for
• Validate job briefings, end of shift briefings, safety meetings and activities to ensure that safety rules, procedures and policies are adhered to through efficiency testing and safety tracking document
• Validate that there is the appropriate level of stock/material and holds store department accountable to protect production plans for next 72 hours
• Maintain communication and create positive working relationships with local union officials. Ensures the collective agreement is understood and handled as it is written

POSITION REQUIRMENTS:

• Must possess a minimum of a High school diploma or mechanical/electrical trade certification and or equivalent university degree
• Valid driver’s license
• 3-5 years railroad experience and leading front-line operations
• Experience in locomotive maintenance on General Electric and Electrical-Motive Diesel locomotive product types.
• Read and understand safety instructions, operating rules and regulations and other written or printed material in English
• Proficient in MS Office Outlook, Word, and Excel and knowledge of SAP systems
• Effectively communication and coach a vast array of employees, while being adaptable to change

WHAT CPKC HAS TO OFFER:

• Flexible and competitive benefits package

• Competitive company pension and/or retirement plans
• Employee Share Purchase Plan
• Performance Incentive Program

• Annual Fitness Subsidy
• Part-time Studies Program

PRE-EMPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS:

Medical and Drug Testing

This is a safety sensitive position and a successful pre-employment medical assessment including physical, vision, hearing, and a negative company or regulated drug test is required. Post hire qualification drug testing may also be required.

Background Investigation:

• Criminal history check
• Education verification
• Professional references
• Driver’s license verification and driving history

BECOMING A RAILROADER:

As an employee with a North American presence, the possibility does exist that the location of your position may be changed based on organizational requirements.

Management Conductor Program:

Becoming a qualified conductor or locomotive engineer is the single best way for a management employee to learn the business at CPKC. You may be required to obtain a certification or to maintain your current certification/qualification as a conductor or locomotive engineer.

CULTURE OF INCLUSION:

For our U.S. applicants, CPKC is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, inclusive of protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. For Canadian applicants CPKC is an employment equity employer committed to the principles of employment equity and inclusion. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply including: women, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), members of the LGBTQ+ community and people with disabilities. Accommodations for the job application process can be provide, as appropriate, upon request. All applicant information will be managed in accordance with the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).

• Req ID: 104564
• Department: Mechanical Loco
• Job Type: Full-Time
• Position Type: Non-Union
• Location: Montreal, Quebec
• Country: Canada
• % of Travel: 0-10%
• # of Positions: 1
• Job Grade: 4
• Job Available to: Internal & External