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Job Title: Freight Car Repairer
Job Location: NJ: Jersey City
Pay Rate: Open
Job Length: full time
Start Date: 2008-09-12

Company Name: Norfolk Southern
Contact: HR
Phone: email only please
Fax: email only please

Description: Freight Car Repairer

Location: Jersey City, NJ Travel Required: 0-2 days/month

Job Description: Carman Job Description: Carmen are responsible for railway freight car inspection, periodic maintenance, and repair. Outside work may be required. Physical duties will require lifting a maximum of 50 lbs., working at different heights, stooping, bending, and getting on and off equipment. Applicant should have knowledge of burning, welding, and the operation of heavy fabrication equipment. Experience preferred. Carmen are subject to working various shifts with the possibility of rest days being scheduled on non-weekend days. They may be subject to working overtime that would be paid at the overtime rate.

Training Norfolk Southern provides a 6-12 week long comprehensive training program at our facility in McDonough, Georgia, 35 miles south of Atlanta on I-75. McDonough Training Center combines classroom and field instruction. Norfolk Southern will reimburse travel to and from McDonough. While in McDonough, Norfolk Southern will provide hotel lodging and a meal allowance. The majority of training for Student Carmen will be done at their home point where they will be paid the applicable rate as listed below.

Pay Rates During the training time at McDonough, Carmen will earn $350 per week. Applicants who do not qualify as journeymen are subject to a 3-year training program, after which they will receive full journeyman rates. The full union scale for Carmen is $23.99 per hour. The rate progression for Student Carmen is as outlined: Year Percent of Full Rate Approximate Amount /hour 1st year 75%% of full rate $17.99/hour 2nd year 80%% of full rate $19.19/hour 3rd year 85%% of full rate $20.39/hour After 3 years 100%% of full rate $23.99/hour In order to progress to the next rate level, employees must complete 244 creditable days of training in their current step rate. Upon completion of 732 creditable days of training, Student Carmen will be considered Journeymen Carmen. Carmen are responsible for monthly payment of union dues from the first day of employment. We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing. We test hair for illegal drugs as part of our pre-employment medical evaluation. Hair testing can reveal any drug use in the last 90 days. If you are unable to provide a hair sample from the head, arms, chest, or legs we will treat that failure as a refusal which will result in rejection of the application for employment. Note: Information herein is intended as a guide and in all cases the applicable collective bargaining agreement shall govern.

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