Tony Garmon
Bellwood,Illinois
Summary
Results-driven professional leads, motivates and collaborates with teams of mechanics. Experienced in troubleshooting and diagnosing repair issues. Committed to implementing best practices and standards to deliver customer satisfaction.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Mechanical Foreman/Locomotive Planner
Canadian Pacific Railway
10.2022 - Current
- Conduct job briefings, end of shift briefings, safety meetings and activities, ensuring that safety rules, procedures and policies are adhered to through efficiency testing and safety tracking document
- Correct and document safety incidents, safety hazards/concerns, investigates for corrective actions to the various departments, involving the Mechanical Manager and Health and Safety Committee in the prescribed timelines
- Support, communicate and deliver to key performance indicators. Leads to ensure all direct reports have an understanding of the business objectives, as well as the role they are all accountable for
- Communicate and interact regularly with management within field operations to ensure locomotive repair and train servicing is meeting the expectations of internal and external customers
- Ensure that there is the appropriate level of stock/material and is responsible for ordering within prescribed limits through the SAP system. Supports all expenditure reduction initiatives
- Maintain communication and fosters positive working relationships with local union officials. Ensures the collective agreement is understood and managed as it is written
- Support and participate in continuous improvement initiatives to improve productivity and effectiveness of the operation. Support Lean Philosophy and Principals
- Ensure locomotive bad order repair, cycle time, dwell time, productivity and key metrics are met including inventory management for all locomotives on the territory. Coordinate with Field Operations to ensure Local Service Operating Plan (LSOP) targets are met
- Direct road repair on the territory to meet 24 hour repair cycle time
- Ensure repairs and train servicing are in compliance with AAR, Transport Canada standards and CPKC polices
- Support mechanical forces at train incidents within their jurisdiction adhering to the guidelines of the Emergency Response Plan
- Communicate and interact regularly with local/external counterparts
- Work directly with employees in the shop & yard environments to establish self-managed work teams and provides guidance and support to employees to bring about the vision of an empowered and engaged workforce
Freight Car Inspector (AAR Bill Writer)
Union Pacific Railroad
08.2021 - 05.2022
- Inspect all freight cars inside of the repair facility, along with identifying what needs to be Fixed on each individual car in accordance to AAR and FRA standard
- Delegate the workload based on the skill set and efficiency of each particular carmen to ensure that the work got done in a safe and timely manner
- Ensure each car had the correct billing, and closed out in the system
- Calculate all of the numbers in a 8hr shift and put it in the 'end of the shift' report that helped track productivity and profits.
Car Department Coordinator (CD70)
Union Pacific Railroad
05.2020 - 01.2021
- Act as liaison for the car department in close communication to all other departments within Union Pacific Railroad, and in the event of an emergency, I would help police, EMT, and fire department Maneuver throughout the yard via phone or radio
- Put a action plan together comprised of the information from the other departments to minimize time worked on the track
- Track and document each train coming in and each train that left inbound/outbound yards
- Delegate each train that was released to the car department by transportation to the Lead Carmen
- Notify that crew if it's an first inspection or outbound inspection along with identifying any hazmat issues
- Input/release bad orders on certain cars within a train
- Ensure that blue flag process is followed
Foreman
Union Pacific Railroad
06.2014 - 11.2014
- Responsible for setting a tone at the beginning of the shift by performing a safety briefing and making sure the manpower is accounted for
- Supervisor of all Carmen, The coordinator, and Leadman
- Ensure all work is being completed in a safe and timely manner Assist in the process of delagating the work when necessary
- Track EOT devices and place them in the right area
- Ensure all work is done in accordance to AAR and FRA standards
- Make sure all reports/documents are in the system for the next shift
- Inputting payroll.
Leadman
Union Pacific
11.2007 - 06.2014
- Delegate the work to all Carmen in various yard whether it be intermodal, outbound or inbound yards
- This position was a boot on the ground version Of the coordinator
- Physically would assist in locking up each track that was released to the car department by transportation in accordance to this the locations Blue Flag process
- Physically would drive Carmen to their track, and in assist in any repairs if need be
- Provide train crews with their air slip and arm markers on the end of trains
- Ensure all necessary paperwork was where it needed to be for the next shift.
Blow mold operator
Graham Packaging of North America
06.2006 - 12.2006
- Operate a sidell SBO 16 plastic bottle machine, Other responsibilities comprised of preventative maintenance and changing over to different style molds Depending on the customer order
- Troubleshoot any difficulties while the machine is at full operation
- Create a master process, so it could be implemented on other machines that had the same mold capacity based on the quality/timing
- Perform a quality test on the bottles, three times during a 12 hour shift
- Track the data acquired from the quality test
- To see which process would be best used for the entire facility.
Blow mold operator/ changeover crew
Amcor PET Packaging Of North America
05.2001 - 05.2006
- Troubleshoot any difficulties while the machine is at full operation
- Create a master process, so it could be implemented on other machines that had the same mold capacity based on the quality/timing
- Perform a quality test on the bottles, three times during a 12 hour shift.
Education
Proviso West High School
05.2001
Skills
- Resourceful
- Great critical thinker
- AAR Billing Certification
- MIG overhead welding /Shield Metal Arc welding certification
- Preventive Maintenance Procedures
- Maintaining Records
Timeline
Mechanical Foreman/Locomotive Planner
Canadian Pacific Railway
10.2022 - Current
Freight Car Inspector (AAR Bill Writer)
Union Pacific Railroad
08.2021 - 05.2022
Car Department Coordinator (CD70)
Union Pacific Railroad
05.2020 - 01.2021
Foreman
Union Pacific Railroad
06.2014 - 11.2014
Leadman
Union Pacific
11.2007 - 06.2014
Blow mold operator
Graham Packaging of North America
06.2006 - 12.2006
Blow mold operator/ changeover crew
Amcor PET Packaging Of North America
05.2001 - 05.2006
Proviso West High School
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