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Job Description

Overview

Join a team of Apprentice Diesel Mechanics who have been repairing a fleet of locomotives with Union Pacific for over 150 years. Our apprentices inspect, diagnose issues, repair, and maintain the engine and mechanical components of diesel-electric locomotives while working in and around our locomotive shops.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct job briefings to ensure safe and effective coordination of activities.
  • Repair, replace, or rebuild locomotive and diesel engine components as needed.
  • Develop and maintain positive working relationships with coworkers, supervisors, contractors, and customers.
  • Prepare equipment and materials as needed, and efficiently operate measuring instruments and hand tools.
  • Diagnose diesel engine, air compressor, and other locomotive mechanical system malfunctions.
  • Communicate technical information and job procedure recommendations through various means.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.
  • Read, interpret, and understand information from diagrams, schematics, blueprints, graphs, and charts.
  • Inspect and service the diesel locomotive fleet in compliance with company, federal, and industry standards.

Requirements

  • Basic keyboarding skills.
  • Ability to use both low precision and high precision instruments to get accurate measurements.
  • Valid driver's license.
  • Able to effectively work independently and in group settings.
  • Proficient verbal and written communication skills.
  • Able to extract relevant information from tables, charts, graphs, and text.
  • Able to perform basic arithmetic operations to solve practical problems.
  • Able to take initiative and responsibility for timely and quality completion of tasks.
  • Able to understand and apply basic mechanical principles to solve mechanical problems.
  • Experience reading and understanding instructions including operating and safety rules.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision

Additional Information

  • Most communications will be done electronically.
  • Closing date: Apply early as this job may be filled at any time.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
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How this job compares in Proviso, IL

Pay in context

At roughly $37/hr, this posting sits about 14% above the $32/hr median for welding jobs across Illinois — toward the top of a $27–$43/hr middle band drawn from 251 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 63% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

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